"You can do things the right way, or the Ford Tough way"

[Rich]

(From a short-lived Ford ad campaign)

http://www.detnews.com/2005/autosinsider/0510/24/A01-358226.htm

I guess they should start doing things the RIGHT way?

 

[kilby]

Half a BILLION bucks. Wow.

 

[orange150]

hasnt Ford been in trouble for a long time though?

 

[braxton357]

hasnt Ford been in trouble for a long time though?

Every one of the big three has...

 

[SpydyrWyr]

Yeah... big time trouble. I work in the industrial robotics industry. The big 3 are big customers of my company. Although they're seeing troubles, they're still spending money to innovate. I just got back from a service call to the DCX plant in Belvidere, IL where they used to make the Neon. Now that one plant is going to be making the new Dodge Caliber, and two brand new Jeep vehicles. Hundreds and hundreds of brand new 6-axis robots and some of the coolest end of arm tooling I've ever seen. I've never been a big DCX fan, but this new plant is going to be pretty kick ass.

Ford is also working on a sweet ass new plant in Mexico.