Are you angry that Airhen is happy with his purchase, that you don’t enjoy your purchase, that Airhen doesn’t share your worldview, or some combination of the three?

Airhen mentality (see “I can run tem over if needed be”) it’s just stupid, infantile and plain dangerous. Did I mention stupid?
I am really pissed to see this kind of thinking in a lot of drivers of big SUVs/trucks out there. I am just happy the gas price is driving this mentality to extinction indirectly by killing the SUVs/Trucks market. I love Jaje post as an Airhen rebuttal.

“To tell you the truth, in all this excrement, I’ve kinda lost track myself”

Obviously, the source for all of Mark Fields power was in his mullet. His performance has severly diminished since he cut it.

Nope – I just made a random thought post same as Airhen did. Don’t read into it too much – this is just an Internet post.

Are you angry that Airhen is happy with his purchase, that you don’t enjoy your purchase, that Airhen doesn’t share your worldview, or some combination of the three?

But I assume Mulally has accurately assessed Fields, and the turnover in the top ranks at Ford since Mulally arrived shows he’s not averse to showing people the door one way or another. So I’m not worried about Fields’ performance hurting Ford.

- brought to you by your typical smug Jeep owner who drives the vehicle mainly to/from work to pick up kids from soccer but once went to Jeep Camp for a weekend adventure.

Oil Reserves does not equal oil production, and oil production, does not equal oil exports.

I saw this coming in 2002 with my last car purchase, why didn’t the big 2.8?

I agree with your analysis, but argue that Ford and GM have more fuel efficient cars on the way, but we don’t hear much from Chrysler along those lines.

I have great respect for Alan Mulally and I believe he will do great things at Ford, but he needs to get rid of Mark Fields and a number of other pointless managers (True example: there is a lady who works at a high level in Ford called Sonia Shrank and her job title is…..are you ready for this? “Ford Brand DNA manager“! What the hell kind of pointless job title is that?!). Mark Fields’ track record is abysmal. Firstly, his “great turnaround” at Mazda. What is mentioned less often about that, is the ground work was laid out by previous management BEFORE, Mr Fields’ arrival. Then, there’s his tenure at PAG, which still didn’t turn a profit and his stint at Ford Americas, which saw him oversee the market share loss and chaos that Ford are in right now. And yet, despite all this, Mr Fields is being touted as the next CEO of Ford.

Meanwhile, Lewis Booth, head of Ford Europe, has continually brought healthy profits to FoMoCo, has wonderful products to sell (Ford Mondeo and Ford Focus Cabriolet) and has brought the “Ford” marque on a respectable level with Toyota, Nissan and VW in Europe. And he’s an outside chance of getting the CEO’s job at Ford!

Madness!

Anyway, back to the F-150. It was only a matter of time before it was supplanted as number one in the United States. Fuel prices couldn’t sustain it there forever. Don’t expect this to be a blip in the calendar, either. Oil prices are holding steady at $125 per barrel and OPEC aren’t increasing production any time soon. However, if Petrol does come down by at least $2 per gallon, then maybe there will be an uptick in F-150 sales. But it’s highly unlikely.

But don’t panic, people. It was beaten by 3 American made cars.

So you see? Americans CAN build a car that Americans want to buy. :O)

But the housing market has not recovered, and $4 gas finally hit home in May. If nothing else, May will go down as the month everyone in Detroit finally woke up.

I remain in the camp that believes that Ford and GM still have a solid chance to recover, although never to the US market shares they became accustomed to.

But I wonder what would happen if Honda could produce as many Fits, Civics and those upcoming Hybrids as the market demands. Then the vehicles that are keeping the D2.8 dealers in business — Focus, Caliber, Cobalt, Aveo — would be ground into dust.