Toyota and Honda vehicles are selling for ~ 2K to 7K over MSRP. People are willing to wait for months after booking due to the high demand for these vehicles. Ford vehicles are readily available at dealerships but no one wants them. Ford doesn't know what the customer wants. Unless this problem is fixed the Ford layoffs will continue....
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I'll say it. Ford should have carved out streetside space at every dealership for high speed EV charging. Have a big charging sign with ads, like Shell Recharge. Get every EV driver on the lot for 20 minutes to see the newest Ford EVs and PHEVs. Let people driving past the dealership see how popular EVs are, with the charging spaces always full. This was an easy win.
Instead, some dealerships never installed a charger at all. Those that did put the charger near the dealership building, behind a gate that's locked at night and on Sundays. That's the kind of stale thinking we need to lay off.
We used to have quality system that worked. FRACAS: Failure Reporting, Analysis, and Corrective Action System. FRACAS helped address customer reported incidents, product failures, audit findings, test concerns, manufacturing defects, and many other issues.
The company has already been fixed and put on the growth path with the Ford+ company transformation plan.
What you have here with these negative posts is impatient people who expect instant results. Company changes of this magnitude take time people. Be realistic.
the bottom might be about to fall out. Poster on youtube with inside connections at Stellantis said rumor is they might cut MSRP on vehicles 30-35% in the next month. Some dealers have already started to do it. If they do that price cut Ford and others going to have to follow. Thats why all the vehicles are sitting in the lots forever now. Knowbody can afford them. The companies got greedy after covid and kept raising prices to much. Ford been getting greedy with the broncos, mustang gt, and aviator. raising them thousands this year.
That is amazing. Today's bronco cant make it down the block.
Sadly, that was then...this is now.
1997 F250, 300K miles. waterpump, injector, hubs, tr---y rebuilt at 250K. Built Ford tough.
1995 Bronco, 320k. Reliable, except it eats ball joints.
new Ford ICE/Hybrid vehicles are quite nice, switched from Toyota and I was a long Toyota owner, low displacement EcoBoost scares me, but I lease, so I don't care.
Poor quality, unattractive, unreliable, outdated, inefficient, safety recalls, expensive.
That sums it up as to why people are not buying a Ford.
Ford and the other domestic automakers for that matter are imo at the mercy of shortsighted Wall Street. Until that changes they’ll keep making cr-p instead of investing for the long haul. Where Japanese companies beat us imo is they develop much better longer term planning and strategies.
Just like how ford treats their new employees
Unpredictable
toyota makes a decent car, reliable