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Originally Posted by PooDog
Do you think Farley must be under a lot of pressure?
Not saying it's all his fault, but there's a lot of not so flash stuff happening under his watch , like the terrible recll costs they're having, the EV cost blow outs ,the EV back flip ,Escape hybrid problems etc ....it all starts at the top ?
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My observations:
Major BEV push came from Bill Ford, Farley is just doing his bidding. Ford now spending upwards of $50 billion on major BEV infrastructure to build in mass quantities. Enter economic slow down, BEV buyers only number a few thousand
a month……what is Ford to do but slow down everything.
Man, if they get to 2026 and Ford is still selling a handful of BEVs, there will be
hell to pay. Most US buyer just don’t need BEVs, they’re not even on the shopping list.
On quality/reliability, almost every event can be tracked to Ford not adequately
monitoring their supplier quality and suffering the consequences after the fact.
The answer is more active monitoring of suppliers but doesn’t seem to be up to it,
they are so weighed down by multiple levels of bureaucracy that it impossible to
get the simplest things in place quickly.
North America T6 parts supplies shortages are absolutely killing Bronco and Ranger production,
Would that they could be on three shifts to sell what is high profit vehicles but for suppliers..
I wonder if key Chinese sourced T6 parts are being prioritised to our market over US production…
Even the electric guru is crying in his beer at falling sales all over the globe, this is a major slow down…