According to a local Detroit tv station and the Detroit Free Press, Ford Motor Co. may have decided to discontinue the Excursion after the 2004 model year. The axe is falling all over!
Bye bye Excursion, you were nice while you lasted!

 

This is not good news!! Why axe the BEST suv made??

 

My guess, emissions.

Ford is probably having a hard time staying within their corporate limits. Given that their number one selling vehicle is the F150, they've got a lot of catch up to play with their other models to meet government emissions regulations. I don't think they're able to pass off the Excursion as an "over 8800lb GVW work vehicle" like they do with the F250/350 to avoid emissions/fuel consumption regulations.

The obvious answer is to axe the biggest, hardest on fuel, most polluting, and relative to the Explorer/Expedition, poorest selling SUV, the Excursion.

It'll be a sad, sad day when the axe comes down.

Waxy

 

>My guess, emissions.
>
>I don't think they're able to pass off the Excursion as an "over 8800lb GVW work vehicle" like they do with the F250/350 to avoid emissions/fuel consumption regulations.

The Excursion is exempt from CAFE.

It is being axed due to poor sales due to inept marketing by the morons at Ford. Period.

 

>>My guess, emissions.
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>>I don't think they're able to pass off the Excursion as an "over 8800lb GVW work vehicle" like they do with the F250/350 to avoid emissions/fuel consumption regulations.
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>The Excursion is exempt from CAFE.
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>It is being axed due to poor sales due to inept marketing by
>the morons at Ford. Period.


I agree!

As soon as the excursion started getting flack from the tree huggers because of it's size and MPG's Ford Marketing went south.
I have not even seen an excursion commercial in years!

 

I think it's because Ford won't pay off the government and the tree huggers. GM must, because they get a lot less grief from those groups.

 

In no means whatsoever am I putting the Excursion down when I say this.Roughly 2 to 3yrs. ago when the demand for Excursions was filled and the do gooders were griping about vehicles that had poor fuel economy and how unsafe they were,Ford's then President (Jack Nasser)made an announcement that Ford was going to reduce production numbers on the Excursion.He made it sound like Ford was doing this to help do their part concerning the two previously mentioned issues.Bull$#!&.Their sales,unfortunatly aren't what Ford had hoped for.It is a shame:-( .
One thing that gripes my @$$ is that these do gooders now call large vehicles unsafe when in the mid and late 70's when vehicles were being downsized people would complain about small vehicles being unsafe.It's just a matter of what kind of "twist" you want to put on an issue .

 

>One thing that gripes my @$$ is that these do gooders now
>call large vehicles unsafe when in the mid and late 70's
>when vehicles were being downsized people would complain
>about small vehicles being unsafe.It's just a matter of what
>kind of "twist" you want to put on an issue .

The tree huggers like to call the larger vehicles such as SUVs unsafe simply because they do more damage to the little vehicles on the road in an accident. That is absolutely correct, but which is more likely to keep you safer in an accident with an 80,000 lb 18-wheeler, which won't be eleminated any time soon (thank God for that). I feel much personally feel safer in my F-250 that I can sit up and see down the road in. I hate to see the Excursion go, but if it is do to a lack of sales I can't blame Ford, but they could do a little advertising to try and boost numbers in the next couple years before giving it the axe. I also heard on the radio that one paper was claiming Ford makes $10,000 on each Excursion. If that is true, it doesn't seem like they'd need that large of sales to keep it around. Of course we all know how accurate the media is

 

 

I read poor sales also
I love the way the tree hugghers think, a few years back my insurance went up because my vett was a small sports car and it was very likely that I would get hurt in a crash, then I got the same insurance hike on my wifes Taho because it was more likely that I would hurt someone else.
So if you drive something the tree huggers do not like then the insurance goes up?

Also the 5.4 & 6.8 are ulev which the tree huggers wanted. So now the tree huggers say that does not matter because they burn more gas than the POS they drive.

 

I was shocked to hear the news on the radio the other day. Poor sales is only the beginning. The chebbie tahoe and sublurban got a facelift which boosted thier sales. Ford did not feel investing the kind of dough needed to do the same would yield enough revenue.
What a shame. And I was just getting use to the big ol' bus.