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AlecSadler@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

Wow. I mean, correct me if I’m wrong, but I feel like Ford’s future is going to be a struggle.

You can’t simultaneously be late to a growing market, back out of a growing market, and refuse to invest in a growing market and hope to succeed…can you?

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great_meh@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Well you can if you trust the government to bail you out .

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- Cornpop@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Ford never took a bailout
  
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  - AnarchoDakosaurus@toast.ooo ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    
    A Ford TV ad slams competitors for accepting bailout funds, even though the company’s CEO lobbied for the bill. The company — the only one of the Big Three not to receive a bailout — feared a collapse of GM and Chrysler at the time would have hurt suppliers and, in turn, Ford itself. Ford Chief Executive Officer Alan R. Mulally also asked Congress for a “credit line” of up to $9 billion in case the economy worsened. In other words, Ford was for government bailouts before it was against them.
    
    factcheck.org/…/ford-motor-co-does-u-turn-on-bail…
    
    And ford took more money from Biden’s green energy plan. Ford is definitely guilty as fuck as slurping up government surplus and firing workers the second they stop making them a profit.
    
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    stealthnerd@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I love how the OP said Ford never took a bailout, you reply confirming that, and OP gets downvoted into oblivion.
    
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  - Nollij@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Ford never took that bailout
    
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ours@lemmy.film ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Ford? More like the whole Western auto industry.

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Tb0n3@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
They do pretty gangbusters in the pickup market. They also have a hybrid power-train available. If you look at the current year list of Q1 sales they’re top of the heap.

Honestly if you want to use the vehicle for hauling it doesn’t make a whole lot of sense. The only reason Teslas and other cars do so well it by being a slippery and efficient as possible so they can get 100+MPGe. It doesn’t work so well with a trailer on, or the shape required to carry things in the back.

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