Ford's Great Public Relations

[Piccola]

This Is America, Speak English!

Dai Bony, non e' difficile da tradurre!! Hai capito quello que dicevo al ristorante qualche mesi fa... :wink :banana

 

[ChipBeck]

Como esta say what??

Besides Italian and Spanish, I also speak Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese and Russian. Still learning computer.:ack

I took 3 years of Spanish and I can't even order at Taco Bell.

Chip

 

[SuperB]

Bony, this is Florida, speak spanish like everyone else.

OK Atomic, stop sending in Italian. Babelfish doesn't work THAT good.

Guess only a few got my joke, I can hardly speak English much less all those languages.

http://babelfish.altavista.com/

 

[Gierkink]

.......No great business man works "for the challenge", that's what golf is for. We work for money, it's the scorecard for our companies and ourselves.

Chip

Chip,

If you ever start a religion I will be your disciple!

Rob

 

[dikran]

The life and/or death of Ford will be guided by two basic realities: (1) You can't be all things to all people - they need to market more cars that target certain groups (e.g. FGT, Mustang, F150) - they should reduce the number of models; and (2) build quality into the cars from the components on up to the final assembly. Mullaly needs to address the plants that need help or need to be let go (not just those on the ACH-LLC shelf). I asked to acquire one of them, and he won't take the meeting. Time is not a friend to Detroit (nor the entire country, for that matter) as we are all watching to see what comes of US Auto Manufacturing.

 

[SteveA]

......No great business man works "for the challenge", that's what golf is for. We work for money, it's the scorecard for our companies and ourselves.
Chip

Many years back an old church friend started a motorcycle grip company with 300 dollars. A few years ago he was on the Forbes list at 123 for the riches men in the world. As his company got bigger and he made more money than he could ever spend (well over a billion), I asked him why he didn't take a big Nike offer that was on the table? His answer was "It's become a game".

 

[KMCBOSS]

IMHO, Ford needs to fire the folks in the design group and set off in a new direction designing their cars - not just copy Japanese designs. Ford may need to take a page from their own history to come up with something fresh and exciting, much like they did with the lastest Mustang design and of course the Ford GT. I think the Ford 49 exercise was a step in the right direction but maybe the bean counters forced the company to follow overseas trends. The current Ford 500 and GM's GTO are examples of marketing mistakes that should produce a lessons learned review.

 

[SuperB]

I agree with KM, get some new designs. The GT is nice, but that design is really from the 60's, with a hand full of changes.

Or, take some of the designs they have (there were a couple nice ones I saw at the first rally) and put them into production.

Seems they are missing a step.

You're supposed to design, build then sell.

In one case, they design, but never build.

In another case they just build but can't sell.

Making the fenders a little more round and front grill move oval is not DESIGN.

But I don't really care, I'm going to buy a Russian made car next time just to really steam things up. :wink