I hope you figure what you're doing before the company is completely ruined.
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Subscription services will never exceed the revenue of actual vehicle sales at FoMoCo.
Even though Ford seems to be beginning to identify as a tech company, they are still a manufacturing company.
I hate the thought of subscription services - at least the way Ford is pushing them.
They make it sound as if there is some large base of potential customers that would be perfect for subscription services. If there's some customer in the deep south that doesn't need heated seats and decides to drive to the northern states to see the snow, and he wants to pay for a month's worth of heated seats... That would be fine, except for corporate greed. The vehicle will already have the capability - and that will have been included in the sales price.
And I bet they will begin taking away things that we have been accustomed to having. "Hey, some people don't use their radio - let's make that a subscription service!"
Eh... I'm still angry about the disappearance of spare tire & Jack's from new cars. Every article I've read says it was to decrease vehicle weight to achieve better gas mileage. I know for a fact that isn't (entirely) true. It is a big decrease in cost. Less suppliers, less parts logistics and storage, less operations at the assembly plant. Scr-w the customer who isn't rich enough to call a roadside service if they're stranded with a flat....
Too late
“Do you know something our leadership or more accurately Doug Field doesn't know? “
Yes, I do. I know Doug is not nearly as intelligent as he believes he is.
@kvy You mean the plan that changes week to week? Yeah confidence inspiring right there bud. Can’t engineer product when they constantly start and stop programs…
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Do you know something our leadership or more accurately Doug Field doesn't know? Our leaders have obviously have vetted the company's new business model I know the end game if profitability that surpasses current capabilities. That is why we are transforming the company for the future. I am sorry you cannot see it even given all the company resources open to you to learn.
Ford suxs ok.. their cars their company 360 degrees
I have worked at the company through Bill, Alan, Mark, Jim and Jim. The only bright spot that I can recall was in 2013; everything after that the company descended further and further into the proverbial abyss. The company distanced itself further and further from their core customer base. When they decided that people who bought Fusion for example were no longer worth it, you lost me. The EV push will be the coup de grace. The reviews for Lightning demonstrate that the honeymoon period is over and buyer remorse is kicking in. The showroom lineup sucks; would love to know how many people walk out of a Ford showroom with nothing. Literally cannot discern one vehicle from the next in the lineup because its only inches of difference between them. And the people that do throw money down have the displeasure of untimely delivery, not getting what they ordered, poor quality, recalls, etc. If I did not work there I would not be giving my hard earned money to Ford.
Ford will be bankrupt soon
Trolls gonna troll.
In what year will subscription sales revenue exceed net revenue from the F150? Please show your math.
YOU CANNOT, BECAUSE IT NEVER WILL!!!
You are not looking at the big picture. The now underway company transformation will align us to the forefront for the customers of the future automotive business.
Did you see last months sales report, in particular the growing subscriptions for Blue Cruise and Ford Pro services? It is rising, not falling. This is all pure revenue with no real legacy costs or quality costs attached to it. This is one of the benefits to pursue a data, cloud, and subscription based company model.
The first step in the turn around plan was to get rid of you.
This company is so F’d. They rob their long term dedicated and highly experienced employees of their pensions. They bias employment/promotion of employees to meet a diversity quota. They push out the few that are too far in to their service for the company to rob of their pensions, so even more highly experienced people gone.
What does that leave them with.. a bunch of inexperienced young uns with nobody to show them the ropes, So the same mistakes will happen yet again. Plus a bunch of stay at home BS do the house work remote workers. Oh yeah and the fat rich pigs at the top who couldn’t give a sh--e about the company, just how they can line their pockets even more before they jump ship and go to the villages in Florida.
Another icon American corporation going to the dogs because of an agenda.