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How is Ford going everywhere else in the world? From what I've read they seem to be doing ok, I could well be wrong. I doubt our struggling division will be a catalyst to abandon One Ford.
Why can't we at least throw on our own bumpers and design our own front ends, keeping the rest of the car the same? |
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Adamz Ghia "New Models Drive Ford Europe Sales Up 10% in First Three Quarters of 2015; No. 1 Commercial Vehicle Brand
Ford’s total vehicle sales* grew 8 percent in September and 10 percent year-to-date Total vehicle market share at 8.9 percent in September, and 8.1 percent year-to-date Ford No. 2 in total vehicle and passenger car sales; No.1 for commercial vehicles Ford increased market share in 12 of its 20 traditional European markets, including Germany, Spain, France, Italy and others; share also up in Turkey; leads UK market Ford sales in higher value retail and fleet segments accounted for 73 percent of its passenger car sales in both periods – 1 and 3 percentage points better than industry Mondeo sales up 45 percent in September; EcoSport compact SUV sales doubled; Ranger sales rose 17 percent; Mustang orders at almost 10,000 in Europe Commercial vehicle sales up 12 percent in September and 26 percent year-to-date One of four cars ordered with Ford EcoBoost direct injection petrol engine; One of five with award-winning 1.0-litre EcoBoost" https://media.ford.com/content/fordm...e-quarter.html
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and in America.." Top 20 Vehicles
GO TO: Overview Charts | What's Hot Off the Lots | The U.S. Market | Sales and Share of Total Market by Manufacturer Tuesday, December 01, 2015 Top 20 vehicles, current month's sales Nov 2015 % Chg from Nov '14 YTD 2015 % Chg from YTD 2014 Ford F - Series PU 65,192 10.4 695,143 2.3 Chevrolet Silverado PU 45,001 5.1 537,552 13.9 Dodge Ram PU 36,407 1.5 407,981 3.1 Toyota Camry 30,945 7.3 392,056 -1.2 Toyota Corolla / Matrix 24,194 -5.5 330,887 7.0 Honda Accord 25,566 1.2 320,501 -10.2 Honda CR-V 25,931 -19.9 314,462 3.9 Nissan Altima 20,564 -9.9 303,936 0.2 Honda Civic 25,050 8.6 302,588 0.6 Toyota RAV4 27,368 29.7 283,546 15.9 Ford Escape 20,807 -18.5 278,538 -0.7 Ford Fusion 19,451 -4.0 274,594 -3.2 Nissan Rogue 22,565 49.8 260,711 41.4 Chevrolet Equinox 19,634 5.9 255,762 15.8 Ford Explorer 16,690 1.9 227,584 18.8 Hyundai Elantra 17,634 25.9 227,464 12.0 Chevrolet Cruze 16,073 -29.7 209,753 -17.8 GMC Sierra PU 16,527 -26.7 196,701 4.4 Jeep Cherokee 17,426 2.8 196,211 22.0 Ford Focus 11,186 -24.7 191,473 -6.5 Source: www.motorintelligence.com
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As for the yanks being arrogant and self centred with one Ford, very wrong. Ask yourself where the vast majority of One Ford products where designed...Mullaly in fact successfully fought that arrogance within Ford. As for one Ford being the blame for the whale mouth, Again wrong. Ford have ALWAYS had corporate identity across their models. |
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There is nothing wrong with the Ford product, in fact it’s model range is as strong as it has ever been, it’s just a bit on the nose locally and it takes more than good product alone to turn that around.
Winning numerous accolades like that in the new Drive Awards it an impressive achievement but Ford now has to find a way of getting that message to the consumer. |
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Our love of SUV's makes us gay. I blame Toyota.
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Considering some of our best selling cars are the Ranger and Hilux that's a bizarre comment.
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The Ranger is a wannabe F Truck, the chick in the Ford ads refers to the Ranger as a truck. It's no F series love!
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No.
Neither as advertised as the other, the Ranger "Truck" is. The F Series is a truck, not the Ranger.
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Ford US won't allow it in, because it'll hurt F series sales.
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OR Could it be that the truck tag is correctly applied to many forms of vehicles designed to transport goods? |
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if you don't need a H or M category licence then its not a truck in my view, but thats just my opinion. ![]() |
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we are not in the UK, or the USA. we are in Australia, where the term 'truck' is used widely to denote the likes of kenworth, mack, freightliner, volvo, scania, etc etc. soon we'll have people calling their suzuki mighty boy a truck. ![]() |
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Toyota have been doing 'one ford' for a long time. Guess who sells better?
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It is designed from the experiences of global offices, bring together models from all over the world and to cut the costs of doing so. I have seen a major shift of Ford in the last 2 - 3 years from the basket case it was 10 -15 yrs ago. Mustang in RHD is example of One Ford.
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Hey!! Without the mighty boy Suzuki's sales would dry up and the company would be in tatters. It needs these unique vehicles to survive.
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Again sook as much as you want. But One Ford actually doesn't mean the same car to every country. Even if they might look the same.
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Ford Global was a basket case 10 - 15 yrs ago and here locally they weren't much better, relying on two - three products and even when the sales slides began did nothing to bolster their stocks nor capitalise on the successes they had, more about just sitting on their hands and letting it be another "she'll be right" scenario. One Ford is a strategy not a design. I'd suggest you do some research on the differences before commenting further. I'd argue Ford have some of the best range on offer right now, better than ever before.
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If you want to look at the numbers then the top selling car each month sells less than it did 10 years ago. The numbers show that we have a large market of various makes and models, that people are willing to go and try another brand and not stick to one.
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No ford globally means no Ford.
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