Re: The true end of Ford?

Posted by dhermesc on March 01, 2007 at 06:05:06 from (24.248.193.103):

In Reply to: The true end of IH/Navistar? posted by Steven@AZ on February 28, 2007 at 17:03:46:

Actually I was thinking it was more a case of it being the beginning of the end for Ford.

Navistar took a huge beating from Ford when the 6.0 came out in 2003 & 2004. The engine didn't have near the problems in Navistar products as it did in Ford products. The biggest issue with the early 6.0 in Ford light duties was the injectors - spected by Ford to be Bosch instead of Seimens and the electronic controls to meet the tighter EPA regs for light duty trucks - a Ford designed spec that failed miserably.

Navistar is playing it smart, before they retool to build the 6.4 at the high production levels that the Ford contract will require they are going to make sure Ford is fully aware that their contract is binding and not something that Ford execs use as toilet paper in in their gold plated bathrooms.

Right now Ford is on the edge of bankruptcy - maybe even closer then Chrysler was in early 80s. The massive tooling costs they paid to develope and build the 500 has not paid off. They invested in what they hoped would be another 1985 Taurus and got another Edsel.

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