IF I were CEO, I would bring back the Ranchero...Woo Hoo

 

the ausies have one

 

Hey, if they are bringing the Fiesta back from Europe, why not bring 'that' from down under.

 

the aussie ranger looks way better too

 

According to MT, Ford is killing the Crown Vic/Grand Marquis line next year, along with the Milan, Mariner and Sable.

Mustang will be the only RWD car coming off of FoMoCo for a while...at least until 2014 until the economy picks back up again like it was in 2004.

EcoBoost is in full swing..Already have that in the MkX....for $45K

And if I were the CEO, I'd bring back the Cougar, Lightning (6.2L anyone?), and drop the 4.6L 2v and add the EcoBoost engine option to the F-150. Ranger would be rebadged as F-100 and bring some 60-mpg car only available in Europe (is it the Ka or something like that?) to the US. Also start a new type of RWD car with the EcoBoost in it designed just for cops. Sort of like that one super cop car coming out that is supposed to kill the Charger/CV/Impala. I would drop the Raptor F-150 thing and make it as a stand-alone single-cab looking thing and call it the new Bronco. And then bring back that good old tank the Excursion!!!

 

But the tooling and engineering for the Vics and Rangers was paid off so long ago that any sold is purdy much profit.

Adrianspeeder

 

true. its a miracle the vans got a facelift.

 

I think the Ranger needs a make over and they need to kill the Taurus X (Crossover). The Flex can stay. The Flex is a little ugly in stock form but if you've ever seen one hooked up you would like it, maybe they need a sport edition

 

I would offer a "retro" line in which customers could specific order ANY year of ANY past ford car, and it would be reproduced with todays standards. This way the old guys could have their exact same mustang they had in the 60's when they were kids.

By doing this there would obviously have to be a huge waiting time to get the "new" old cars, but hey, who wouldnt want a '69 mustang mach one.

go extreme with the retro - it sells

 

How many people would pay 150K for a retro car that would probably have to be hand built?

 

Just as soon as I get my stimulus money from Obama.

 

Ford would need an exemption from all government pollution and safety laws to produce '60's era cars again. Not going to happen.

 

very true - i am saying that they put modern-day engines with roughly equivalent hp. LOTS of old guys (no offense to older crowd intended) would pay bookoo bucks to have the old car of their dreams.

Would the car neccessarily have to be hand built? there couldnt be a dedicated factory that could build all years of a particular model car (esp the classic ones - mustang, bronco).

Alot of young people would buy these cars as well (they never had chance to buy them) as well.

Also how many people drive cars that they cant afford? lots of Americans - so the expense alone wouldn't necessarily drive off alot of customers.

just my .02 - doesnt really matter anyways cause im not CEO of ford lol

 

If I were the CEO of Ford, on the FX4 package I would put all of them on a level and do a 20x9 with 33/12.50 grapplers on every truck. That way all of us wouldn't have to put more money into gettin that stance and style.

 

A lot of you guys are missing the big picture - in order to stay in business, Ford needs to consolidate whatever they can and make things simpler, not expand any kind of offerings. Boutique building is a money losing proposition, there is a negative return on investment for the minimal increase in sales.