The autoextremist nails it again. The last several paragraphs of this weeks post eloquently says everything that many of us have been thinking
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Digest this......... Mullaly was hailed as a great leader so what happened with the DPS6 t— under his tutalage?????? Answer.... deeply rooted problems in ford structure even under Alan. Conclusion .... ford is a dead man walking. Don’t worry joe will come to the rescue ah no he won’t. But wait there’s more.... offshore all salary support and most production will help.... ah no it won’t
Ford benchmarks Toyota and then cherry picks what it likes. What do you expect???!
Looks like Farley is more like his cousin Tommy boy, without the laughter.
Not one executive has addressed the quality issues. Ford tries to copy Toyota but is nowhere near Toyota with regards to quality. Any higher mileage Ford will have several powertrain codes, electrical issues, and issues from whatever new technology is on the vehicle (hybrid, DSP6, diesel, software, etc)
what ever happened to putting the right people in there? In the 90s Truck could do no wrong. everyone was happy UAW/Salaried/Management. You don't see or hear anyone complain when it is a sports team that is winning! Since F2000 this company has gone into the toilet. F-Series make over 90% of our profits! Need the other vehicle lines to step up!!!! I do not care if the senior team is all white males or women or black .. Put competent leadership with a realistic vision & plan. like watching Sci-Fi channel with what we had since Mark.
the diversity thing is really just a tool the elites are using against us in the class warfare battlerama.... not using minorities as a scapegoat... I'm saying the global elites are using the diversity tool to divide and control us all
Maybe ford fam, hatchet and far far really believe in the diversity bs and maybe they are like a lot of corporate goons pandering to it to help their power base. The global elites have pretty much made it a must have tool in the box and the Ford foundation is about as anti racist as Mr. Kendy could make them.
Fixing racism of the past with more racism now is not the way to heal anti Trumpy
more important to be cool and diverse than competent in today's cool diverse corporate scrummage
If only Ford could exchange Farley's coolness (in his own mind) for a pragmatic approach to problem-solving buoyed by earned respect from colleagues. I guess that would have been Joe Hinrichs.
Mark my words - Farley will be a bigger disaster than Hackett. As unqualified as Hackett was, Farley is a monster. He's not nearly as smart or accomplished as he thinks he is and he has mostly advanced through the ranks by being a political player.
And last, but not least, in the most predictable indication that nothing ever changes with the flip of the calendar alone, Ford is in the midst of frantically fixing its “Franchise” – the 2021 F-150 pickup truck – after the fact. They’re piling up in empty lots around Detroit so that myriad build problems can be addressed, as the Detroit Free Press has been dutifully reporting.
Wait a minute, wasn’t it just a couple of years ago that Ford was forced to do the same thing with its new Explorer? Why yes, that is correct. What seems to be the problem, you might ask? Well, when you’re cranking ‘em out to meet production goals, which translate into sales figures, which translate into serious ca$h-ola – it’s not an exaggeration to say that without the F-150 Ford would have been relegated to the history books years ago – things go wrong, and stuff falls through the cracks. A lot of stuff, to be exact. But “fixing it in the edit” doesn’t play well in this day and age. In fact, it is flat-out inexcusable (just ask Tesla). But here is Ford, up to its eyeballs in it again, like clockwork.
But wait a minute, isn’t all of this badness supposed to be a thing of the past now that Jim “Jimmy Car-Car” Farley is at the helm? I mean, wasn’t Ford going to be led into the light in a burst of creativity and vision from the guy whose claim to fame was the Toyota Scion? How can this possibly be?
Well, there’s that thing about that aforementioned relentless industry inertia at play, for one. And the fact that Ford can’t seem to conduct a proper product launch to save its life, even if you spot them the “l” and the “nch.” And no matter how hard Mark Truby’s PR minions try to portray Farley – or, as we like to refer to him around here, “Jimmy Har-Har” – as being the company savior, the reality is that he’s anything but.
But oh my, have the Ford PR minions been working overtime on it. Farley has been front and center in a “smarm” offensive that is parts hokum and fantasy, and when he isn’t healing the sick or walking on water, his visionary product decisions are sure to propel the company to unimaginable heights. PR veterans and company insiders are choking on their cornflakes from the endless barrage of stories about Farley in this town. But then again, it has become standard operating procedure at Ford. Or, as I like to say, file it under “Unmitigated b—s— We Have to Endure” while living around these parts.
The reality? Farley is just the latest guy to be given the keys to the Ford Motor Company by Bill Ford, and that counts for exactly not much in the grand scheme of things.
Or, in other words, same as it ever was.