Ford+GM????
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Ford+GM????
This is off topic, but you guys are my best buds on the internet. Im not even going to say anything. Its all in the title and in this article. http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com....aspx?GT1=8506
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It's just a slow news day... In the '60's if a GM exec and a Ford or MoPar exec were seen having a beer together there would have been a congressional investigation into collusion and price-fixing.
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Well, when you think about it, one of the only other rivalries like this is Coke and Pepsi. What would happen if those two execs had a drink together? What would they drink? Hmmmm...What is life?
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The true story is the one linked to that one - the one on Bill Ford.
"Ford found it impossible to break away from his family legacy of dowdy, high-priced cars and challenge Japanese automakers' dogged push to build and energetically market attractive, low-priced cars and trucks."
And they are talking about the g grandson of the guy who built the Model T.
Sounds like a replay of the late 70's/early 80's. Compare our trucks to the new ones - even heaters and defrosters were options in our old trucks, now it is hard to get a simple, cheap new truck. The rice burners have several, although they mostly sell them overseas and deliver loaded, over-priced units to the US.
I doubt GM and Ford will ever get together, but if they do Ford will be a division of GM, just like Oldsmobile, Pontiac, or Jeep. Sounds more like they were discussing selling Jaguar to GM - or, even more likely and even more secretly, how to break the unions.
"Ford found it impossible to break away from his family legacy of dowdy, high-priced cars and challenge Japanese automakers' dogged push to build and energetically market attractive, low-priced cars and trucks."
And they are talking about the g grandson of the guy who built the Model T.
Sounds like a replay of the late 70's/early 80's. Compare our trucks to the new ones - even heaters and defrosters were options in our old trucks, now it is hard to get a simple, cheap new truck. The rice burners have several, although they mostly sell them overseas and deliver loaded, over-priced units to the US.
I doubt GM and Ford will ever get together, but if they do Ford will be a division of GM, just like Oldsmobile, Pontiac, or Jeep. Sounds more like they were discussing selling Jaguar to GM - or, even more likely and even more secretly, how to break the unions.
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Originally Posted by TheSovereign53
Well, when you think about it, one of the only other rivalries like this is Coke and Pepsi. What would happen if those two execs had a drink together? What would they drink? Hmmmm...What is life?
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GM and Ford merge...and when do the pigs start flying? I don't think so, but if that's what it takes for Ford to survive I'm all for it. I certainly do not want them to go under... 
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