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Originally Posted by jpd80
That article is also from 2014, I think the situation might have changed in recent years...
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Whats changed? They had no intention of bringing over F150 back then and they still don't now, they just blocked another company bringing in a competitor to their baby if they could reduce costs of their business model and bring it to market cheaper.
Ford Australia probably doesn't want to cannibalise sales of highly profitable Ranger and Ford USA probably doesn't want to invest money in touching their bread winner and it sells in volumes high enough in such a huge market that they'd never need to factor in extra costs to make it RHD friendly for the UK who wouldn't buy it because fuel there is $10000000000000000000000000/L and they have silly taxes on emissions and the rest of the RHD world is either tiny, protecting its market significantly (Japan) or 3rd world peasants who can't even use toilets, get paid $5 a month building cars or calling you at dinner time trying to sell you solar panels.
Lets see how the RAM 1500 goes, its cheap at $80K for the entry level model, cheap enough to start tempting someone who is buying top spec Ranger and Amarok.
Who the **** would buy any of those Thailand specials if you had American utes at similar price points?
Ford Australia went from being the Falcon company to being the Ranger company, you think they're willing to jeopardize their highest profit model?
BTW anyone with a spare $80K-$150K, buy a RAM, Chevrolet Silverado or Camaro, because you're helping keeping me employed
