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Yeah, so every once in a while we get a little serious — and we guess this was one of those times. I sat down yesterday evening in front of the Ford Interceptor concept to talk with FoMoCo Prez of the Americas, Mark Fields. To his credit he didn't deck me — despite the ample opportunities I've provided him in my short tenure here at the Jalop. But this time instead of questioning the man's loyalties to his faith, his Miami-based family or his choices of hairstyle, I questioned him on a diverse set of product topics during our 15 minutes together. We discussed the rear-wheel-drive desire of FoMoCo, how the Edge is the new flagship for the Ford brand, that we should be expecting a B-segment car here in the US by 2009 or 2010. (Which confirms what Fields told us during the holiday party last month — expect to see a B-car in 2009, with a 2010 model year.) In addition, we learned exactly what the Mercury brand really is — "a Ford...that's a little bit different." And you know, that's the first time we've ever heard it described as not-Ford. Well, call a spade a spade, I guess.
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Do they need the heightened security mentioned at the end of the interview to keep Davey and Lieberman out?
Of course.
We were about to redefine hard-hitting journalism
Are you all out there crashing chez Wert?
If only the NYC show were big enough to warrant such a convergence of editors/contributors!
I'll be in New York.
Excellent...perhaps the Cali cartel could make a WRX wagon roadtrip out of it [all caps of somthing "Super Insertphrasehere Potential" redacted due to fear of overuse and subsequent hate from DGJ] so I could finally meet the stars of the best English language autoblog on the planet.
FWIW, the local Lotus Club has in the past had a tent out front of the Javitz (to beef up Lotus' current 1.5 car lineup with past models) and my car may make an appearance.
Al -- yeah, I saw that this past year when I was there.
You want to put me, Bumbeck and Johnson in car together?
Hmmm.... like a stretched Starion-camino painted Subaru Racing Blue?
I'm down.
This could be good. Do a whole "No sleep til Brooklyn" vid out of it.
I can't believe no one has mentioned the headline. wow. just wow. Is he good natured about that? Or are Ford's black suits after wert now?
At 5:31 you know he wanted to say "suckers."
Mike M
That was f'in hilarious.
Feedback!!! Ford dont need no stinkin Feedback.
There's something about how the two guys were situated that made me think Fields was at any moment going reach across the distance between them and wallop Ray in the head.
This would have sucked for Wert, but would have been spectacular for everyone else.
By the way, has a link to the rest of the interview gone missing?
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