Are you aware Ford has already bought up a couple of large Auto Recyclers? Rumor has it they want to buy controlling interest in that industry as well. I am unaware of their activities in this regard on a National level, but I have established as factual that the largest auto recycler in one state (Copher Brothers Auto Salvage) has been bought lock stock and barrel by Ford holding companies within the last year.

If you were "Mr. Ford" and you realized your 10,000.00 pickup truck that you had already sold once for $40,000.00 could sell ~again~ for $60,000 in (Dealer supplied) replacement parts, would you not be rather silly to NOT try and manipulate that profit into your pockets? What stands in the way? JUNK YARDS. That's what. Where people can get that $60,000 worth of parts for $5,000.


It would easily allow you to more accurately forecast your expected revenues. That alone would be a very good corporate reason to program in failure - wouldn't it? I believe it would just be smart business practice - nothing "nefarious" about that right?

Right...

All of this stinks to high heaven of a monopoly law violation.

If there is truth to this rumor, the best bet is the same man who killed the SCRAPPAGE bill - Senator Ben "Night Horse" Campbell of Colorado.

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Manufacturers should not be allowed to buy up scrapyards, wholesale.

 

There isn't an operating junkyard in this country that will sell, they make far too much money.

Ford is recycling these cars for their metal value, to bring costs down in manufacturing.

Makes sense to me.

 

Didn't we have a thread on this a while back?Is there a link to check it out?

 

I've always wanted to own a junk yard.

 

my friend's dad owns a junk yard. we've had many a good time b/c of that. like using cars he's selling that run to make the teepee assault because no one will reconize them. haha. yeah he wouldn't sell either too much bling. -wb

 

We did have a link on this not too long ago. Ford had a division/group/whatever that owned several junkyards. I only wished I could remember that name of the division. Ford sold it off some time ago; there was a URL that had the whole story.

On the other hand, maybe they are getting back into it again. I can see reasons for them owning junkyards and there are some reasons why they should not.