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Lets hope they can keep it up and stop the bleeding in time.]]>Dec 2nd 2007 7:39PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2007/12/02/fords-quality-turnaround-leads-to-free-money/http://www.autoblog.com/2007/12/02/fords-quality-turnaround-leads-to-free-money/Dec 2nd 2007 1:27PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2007/12/02/fords-quality-turnaround-leads-to-free-money/http://www.autoblog.com/2007/12/02/fords-quality-turnaround-leads-to-free-money/Dec 2nd 2007 4:16PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2007/12/02/fords-quality-turnaround-leads-to-free-money/http://www.autoblog.com/2007/12/02/fords-quality-turnaround-leads-to-free-money/
Did anyone else notice this?]]>Dec 2nd 2007 1:33PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2007/12/02/fords-quality-turnaround-leads-to-free-money/http://www.autoblog.com/2007/12/02/fords-quality-turnaround-leads-to-free-money/Dec 2nd 2007 1:37PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2007/12/02/fords-quality-turnaround-leads-to-free-money/http://www.autoblog.com/2007/12/02/fords-quality-turnaround-leads-to-free-money/
Any way you slice it building better cars is more profitable. Besides the cost there is the huge factor of customer satisfaction. It is expensive enough replacing a transmission under warranty but what kills you is when after doing it that customer still swears off your product because you left them and their family sitting on the side of the road. This is what killed the Windstar/Freestar more than anything. Ford, GM and Chrysler thought it was acceptable to leave a certain percentage of their customers on the side of the road if it meant an overall savings per unit. It worked in the past when customers were just happy to hear their repair was covered under warranty. Their customers spoke and said that wasn't acceptable anymore and Ford and GM seem to be listening.

More than any financial statement these reliability numbers speak well for Ford's future. The Camry is proof that people will buy your car again no matter how boring next time if you give them something that isn't going to break down. Ford is going to have a much easier time holding onto Taurus and Fusion customers than they did Explorer and Windstar owners.]]>Dec 2nd 2007 2:20PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2007/12/02/fords-quality-turnaround-leads-to-free-money/http://www.autoblog.com/2007/12/02/fords-quality-turnaround-leads-to-free-money/
--"Shelties sometimes try to "herd" the people into a group by running around, barking, and nipping at heels. This tendency appears most when children run around the yard in a group." --

Ford is now close to being in the same group as Honda and Toyota in regards to quality, that is all they were saying. ]]>Dec 2nd 2007 3:21PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2007/12/02/fords-quality-turnaround-leads-to-free-money/http://www.autoblog.com/2007/12/02/fords-quality-turnaround-leads-to-free-money/Dec 3rd 2007 5:36PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2007/12/02/fords-quality-turnaround-leads-to-free-money/http://www.autoblog.com/2007/12/02/fords-quality-turnaround-leads-to-free-money/
Play on words dominates the press, just look at any newspaper front page headlines for a while, and it will always appear. So why is it only in this specific "area" where the self appointed "protectors" cry foul, and not when it involves other peoples? The answer is obvious and its high time it was exposed - reverse discrimination, pure and simple. ]]>Dec 2nd 2007 1:52PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2007/12/02/fords-quality-turnaround-leads-to-free-money/http://www.autoblog.com/2007/12/02/fords-quality-turnaround-leads-to-free-money/
You seem to be doing a far more heinous deed in limiting free speech by crying sensational foul. You sound intelligent enough to know that there's emotional appeal in what people say. And what you basically did was self righteously confirm any doubts we did have about the post and partial mindsets like youself. Unless you have a more sound argument than one with a premise that we may yet have hope, your post is essentially back noise and not worth any more of my time.]]>Dec 2nd 2007 2:15PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2007/12/02/fords-quality-turnaround-leads-to-free-money/http://www.autoblog.com/2007/12/02/fords-quality-turnaround-leads-to-free-money/Dec 2nd 2007 2:11PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2007/12/02/fords-quality-turnaround-leads-to-free-money/http://www.autoblog.com/2007/12/02/fords-quality-turnaround-leads-to-free-money/
I'm not being (completely) facetious, either. I'm fully expecting GM-DAT to take over as much of GM's mainstream business as it can handle. They've proven they can do 80% effort, low-margin cars far better than GMNA ever could (I mean, have you seen how much better the base Optra is than the Cobalt?). It wouldn't suprise me at all to see the Epsilon and Delta cars, as well as the next Corsa, go over to GM-DAT in the future.

Ford isn't there yet: they don't have a dirt-cheap engineering group akin to GM-DAT since Kia was eaten by Hyundai. ]]>Dec 2nd 2007 2:26PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2007/12/02/fords-quality-turnaround-leads-to-free-money/http://www.autoblog.com/2007/12/02/fords-quality-turnaround-leads-to-free-money/Dec 2nd 2007 2:42PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2007/12/02/fords-quality-turnaround-leads-to-free-money/http://www.autoblog.com/2007/12/02/fords-quality-turnaround-leads-to-free-money/]]>Dec 2nd 2007 2:14PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2007/12/02/fords-quality-turnaround-leads-to-free-money/http://www.autoblog.com/2007/12/02/fords-quality-turnaround-leads-to-free-money/Dec 2nd 2007 2:16PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2007/12/02/fords-quality-turnaround-leads-to-free-money/http://www.autoblog.com/2007/12/02/fords-quality-turnaround-leads-to-free-money/Dec 2nd 2007 2:42PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2007/12/02/fords-quality-turnaround-leads-to-free-money/http://www.autoblog.com/2007/12/02/fords-quality-turnaround-leads-to-free-money/]]>Dec 2nd 2007 2:14PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2007/12/02/fords-quality-turnaround-leads-to-free-money/http://www.autoblog.com/2007/12/02/fords-quality-turnaround-leads-to-free-money/Dec 2nd 2007 7:11PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2007/12/02/fords-quality-turnaround-leads-to-free-money/http://www.autoblog.com/2007/12/02/fords-quality-turnaround-leads-to-free-money/Dec 2nd 2007 2:28PM