Ford & Toyota Are Betting the Farm on the SAME Desperate HAIL MARY

[5.0ALM]

Not Mustang specific.

If you love your Ford Mustang, like to think about 'stuff', and have a spare 55 minutes, this is worth the watch.
Even more so if you are American, as the ramifications of what is unfolding will affect you even more.

As an S650 owner (and soon to be Next Gen Everest) I sincerely hope Ford, as we know it, will still be around in 5 - 10 years time.




From the transcript 50:08:
"If the Chinese tsunami hits, or if the auto-loan bubble bursts, the legacy Ford Motor Company will sink.
And when it does, they will leave the husk of the legacy business—along with its massive debts—to the taxpayers for a bailout.

But because they built the Foxconn Firewall... the California Ark survives.

By folding the old EV division back into the dying mothership, but keeping Alan Clarke and the Skunkworks team completely isolated, Ford is protecting the blueprint. That $30,000 unboxed EV platform will remain a clean, debt-free, non-union asset, holding all the vital intellectual property. It will be perfectly positioned to be spun off as a brand-new, highly valued tech startup.

We can call it "New Ford"—just like "New GM"—smoothly sailing debt-free, after taxpayers are forced to absorb all the liabilities of the legacy company."

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[Q6543]

I didn’t watch it but that’s the plan, this EV is the “new model T moment “ not just about being electric

they are clean sheet redesigning a factory for the future, engineered for minimal recalls, ease of assembly, maximum versatility

Ford isn’t worried about 2030, this is about being around for 2130.

The company and workers have been subsidizing EV losses for years now… taking it literally out of our pockets, but it’s to keep the company alive going forward

 

[Achlys]

Rush was way ahead of the times.
The link works…

 

[LouG]

When I see this stuff I always ask, who are they, what are their qualifications, who profits?
I remember how the Japanese were going to destroy western car makers in the 60's.

 

[Achlys]

US companies got complacent and the economy allowed foreign companies to move in. To this day I still call GM good enough motors.

 

[Gregs24]

When I see this stuff I always ask, who are they, what are their qualifications, who profits?
I remember how the Japanese were going to destroy western car makers in the 60's.

They did destroy many, then the Korean's

Look at US car sales never mind global sales to see who the big players are now.

List of automotive manufacturers by production - Wikipedia

 

[Zig]

Not Mustang specific.

If you love your Ford Mustang, like to think about 'stuff', and have a spare 55 minutes, this is worth the watch.
Even more so if you are American, as the ramifications of what is unfolding will affect you even more.

As an S650 owner (and soon to be Next Gen Everest) I sincerely hope Ford, as we know it, will still be around in 5 - 10 years time.




From the transcript 50:08:
"If the Chinese tsunami hits, or if the auto-loan bubble bursts, the legacy Ford Motor Company will sink.
And when it does, they will leave the husk of the legacy business—along with its massive debts—to the taxpayers for a bailout.

But because they built the Foxconn Firewall... the California Ark survives.

By folding the old EV division back into the dying mothership, but keeping Alan Clarke and the Skunkworks team completely isolated, Ford is protecting the blueprint. That $30,000 unboxed EV platform will remain a clean, debt-free, non-union asset, holding all the vital intellectual property. It will be perfectly positioned to be spun off as a brand-new, highly valued tech startup.

We can call it "New Ford"—just like "New GM"—smoothly sailing debt-free, after taxpayers are forced to absorb all the liabilities of the legacy company."

Ah lah notes of Saturn?

 

[sportcolbs]

US companies got complacent and the economy allowed foreign companies to move in. To this day I still call GM good enough motors.

I still call GM Goverment Motors after we, as taxpayers, rescued them

 

[tktrain]

I still call it Generic Motors after the homogenization of all their power trains. No more Buick engines or Cadillac engines just the same engines in everything.

 

[Wiley Marmot]

US companies got complacent and the economy allowed foreign companies to move in. To this day I still call GM good enough motors.

I offer my 1977 Chevy Monza Mirage's reliability track record as a testament to that!

 

[Alan Applegate]

There is an ad on this page as I write this, telling me to put a paper clip in my iPhone charging port tonight! That idea is about as effective as the video posted herein.

 

[porterhousestk]

I'd rather walk than buy a Chinese EV.

 

[Junkyard Dog]

As an S650 owner (and soon to be Next Gen Everest)

OH! An Australian SUV. I had no idea what this was. Looks like a neat truck.

 

[LouG]

OH! An Australian SUV. I had no idea what this was. Looks like a neat truck.

There's quite few around here too.

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