In September, Ford gave its dealerships an ultimatum: Commit to selling electric cars or lose the right to sell them. About two-thirds, the company now says, have bought into the plan.
https://www.morningstar.com/news/marketwatch/2022121248/two-thirds-of-ford-dealers-sign-on-to-sell-evs
FMC, in its path to become a "start up company" (laughable ideas, I know) is getting rid of its dealers, its employees, its loyal customers, while retaining those ex-managers from other companies. After all, Bill Ford believes he is the start of the show, that managers actually produce something of value (LOL).
So I am expecting more layoffs, more ridiculous impositions to dealers and more ICE customer dissatisfaction, until we have no more NA employees, nor dealers, nor ICE customers, since the company is now a Data and Software provider, plus a Tesla "ki---r" (ROTFLOL).
I believe one third of the Ford dealers will have the chance to survive the upcoming disaster. The third that refused to invest $1.2 million dollars in the mental masturbations of Bill Ford.
That 2/3 is stupid! Chris' cousin is already on record that they want to go to direct to customer sales. So these id--t dealers are going to sink millions into selling EVs only to have the rug pulled out from under them. SMDH