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Unlike Some Auto CEOs, GM's Fritz Henderson Can Type His Own Tweets
During yesterday's live-tweet by GM CEO Fritz Henderson, Ford's always-looking-to-be-center-of-attention-and-shove-a-foot-sideways-in-his-mouth social-media "expert" Scott Monty decided to tweet he'd come up with the idea first. However, unlike Ford's apparently typing-impaired-CEO Alan Mulally, GM's CEO can type his own tweets. Silly SMonty. More »
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By Ray WertComment by Flathead Smith: The CEO of GM sure does have a meager office. I figured a CEO would rate at least two monitors. 4 Responses | Other threads
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Ford CEO Hits Today Show, Says Nothing
Ford CEO Alan Mulally was up early for a Today Show interview in New York with NBC's Matt Lauer. Lauer fearlessly probed Mulally, peppering him with a slew questions. Smiling like a Cheshire cat, Mulally non-answered every one of them. More » -
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Microsoft Employee Dusts Steve Ballmer, Alan Mulally
As Ballmer and Mulally toured Microsoft HQ yesterday to tout the SYNC system they met with a Jalopnik reader and MicroFord fanboy in his Mustang. You can guess what happened next. More »
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Comment by pauljones: This sounds like a recipe for the unemployment line. And next time, if you're going to smoke the CEO of Ford,... 8 Responses | Other threads
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Ford CEO On CNBC's Power Lunch At Noon To Smack Dennis Kneale Around
Ford CEO Alan Mulally, enraged after Dennis Kneale defamed 'merican automakers infotainment capabilities, is on CNBC's Power Lunch today at noon to beat the crap out of him and "sync" his Blackberry with an F-150.
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By Ray WertComment by jduffy13: Maybe this guy I work with can call in and complain about his crappy Ford Focus. And then there's also the... 10 Responses | Other threads
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Ford CEO Alan Mulally Answering Questions Now On Twitter. [Twitter]
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Ford's Alan Mulally says they're seriously gonna get "greener." [HuffPost]
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Ford's Alan Mulally, Bill Ford taking pay cuts. [MLive]
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Lou Dobbs Tonight Rewards Bill Ford For Alan Mulally's Work
After a story about Ford weathering the Carpocalypse so far thanks to early restructuring and privately-secured credit, animatronic Lou Dobbs stand-in Kitty Pilgrim gives a "gut check" award to Bill Ford, Jr. Wait, what? More »
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Ford CEO Calls Man To Thank Him For Buying Fusion Hybrid Over Prius
Ford CEO Alan Mulally personally phoned a Michigan man to thank him for canceling an order for a Toyota Prius and buying a 2010 Ford Fusion Hybrid. Seriously? Yes. There's even video to prove it. More »
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By Ben WojdylaComment by Tiberiuswise: Reminds me of the time Michael Moore challenged the heads of the big three to change the oil in a... 6 Responses | Other threads
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Ford CEO Alan Mulally on CNBC right now. [CNBC]
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Welcome Back Barney Frank
Barney Frank Yells At Ford CEO Mulally
Congress is serious business and Mr. Frank will not stand for people chatting in the classroom. He's looking at you Mr. Mulally. You and your friends can chat outside, because there's another class coming in and the bell is about to ring! -
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Not-So-Big Three Bake Sale Raises Enough To Fund CEO Salaries
With all this talk of corporate jets, slumming it on road trips and idling hybrids, it’s easy to lose track of the human cost of Carpocalypse Now. Has anyone thought of the standard of living adjustment the Big 3 CEOs will have to take when their salaries are cut from tens of millions to a paltry $1-per-year? One man has. That man’s name is Donny Miller. He’s taken it on himself to single-handedly help Alan Mulally, Bob Nardelli and Rick Wagoner put food on the table. How? An old-fashioned bake sale at last week's LA Auto Show.
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Carpocalypse Now
How The Not-So Big Three Rolled Into Washington, D.C.
The not-so-Big Three learned from their corporate travel mistake deciding to drive to D.C. this week for testimony before Congress. Thanks to our man on the scene, here's a look at the cars they chose and their meaning. -
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GM CEO Rick Wagoner Rolls Up To Capitol Hill In Cruze-Covered Chevy Volt Mule
We didn't have the video of Wagoner pulling up in the Chevy Volt mule dressed up in the skin of a Chevy Cruze earlier. Now we do. We also have to say, we're pretty happy with how the Cruze looks in motion. Pretty snazzy if you ask us. We'll take ours with a turbo 1.4-liter four-banger rather than the Volt innards and definitely with the "dog-and-pony show" graphics-delete option. Also, we're now told Alan "Boeing! Boeing!" Mulally and Bob "The Builder" Nardelli are seated and Dodd's started flapping his gums. UPDATE: According to CNBC's Phil LeBeau, GM's modifying their request from the gubm'it — they need $4 billion this month and $4 billion in January (from $4 billion in December, $6 billion in March) to stave off the Carpocalypse! -
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Ford Expects Profitability In 2011, Battery Electric Van By 2010, BEV Sedan For 2011
Ford today announced a plan to turn around its business, claiming it allows them to reach break-even level or profit by 2011. The plan includes building a battery-electric commercial van by 2010 and a BEV sedan by 2011. -
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SNL Sketch Takes On Not-So-Big Three Congressional Hearing
Saturday Night Live took on the not-so-Big Three's congressional testimony and "jetpooling" incident in this weekend's "cold open," and unfortunately fell into the trap of shamelessly mocking tired stereotypes. Which is sad, because we'd watched SNL take on a new level of relevancy as of late thanks to the uber-adorable Tina Fey and an election season devoid of real political commentary. That's not to say watching Will Forte as Rick Wagoner, Darrell Hammond as Bob "The Builder" Nardelli and Jason Sudeikis as Alan Mulally isn't funny, but hearing about quality issues on the upcoming Ford Fiesta and a Cadillac XLR-V is a bit ol' and busted if you ask us. Now quality issues on a Chrysler 300C? That's comedic genius. But hackneyed and tired jokes aside, we were more concerned with further evidence the automakers have done the world's worst job of getting their message out. More » -
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Congressman Urges Automaker CEOs To "Jetpool" When Heading To DC Begging For Money
New York Congressman Gary Ackerman feasts upon a buffet of "delicious irony" as he asks the CEOs from the Not-So-Big Three to perhaps save some cash and fuel by using a single jet together rather than individual private jets from Detroit to D.C. to beg for bailout dollars from the Feds. We even hear Reagan National's got a diamond-festooned runway set up just for jetpoolers. [CNN]
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Not-So-Big Three Automakers Take Corporate Jets To Beg For Money From Congress
It's probably a bad thing to fly a private jet from Detroit to Washington, DC when you're going to ask Congress to provide you a multi-billion dollar loan to bail you out of a financial crisis. That fact hasn't stopped Ford's Alan Mulally, along with the heads of the other automakers, who not only flew to D.C. in the Ford private jet but are, apparently, unwilling to fully cut themselves from the corporate crack that is their private air forces. This really disturbs us. We've been having all sorts of problems with the way the US automakers have managed their message in making the ask for money from the Feds for survival. First they weren't getting their message out. Now, however, they're getting the wrong message out. Frankly, when folks begin saying things like this: More »
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By Ray WertComment by Serolf Divad: The big three need to be consolidated into one United States Automotive Group with most of their products eliminated for... 18 Responses | Other threads
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Ford's Mulally: This Is All Part Of Our Plan
Ford CEO Alan Mulally spoke with CNBC's Phil LeBeau today following the automaker's announcement of $129 million in third quarter loses and announced the company was ready to weather the storm and will continue to develop its product line — but would still love some o' that good ol' socialist government help. The message appears to be far cheerier than GM's announcement that it would be implementing big changes, though there's still some cause for concern. What's the difference? More »
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Comment by Deartháir - Now with more Unemployment™!: I can't remember where, but I read an article recently that said that Mulally was the only executive in the... 4 Responses | Other threads
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NYT: GM Sought Merger With Ford First
As if the late-breaking Friday night news of merger talks between Chrysler and GM weren't astonishing enough, Bill "Pickles" Vlasic at the New York Times continued the onslaught of amazement with a follow-up story that GM had initially approached Ford before speaking to Chrysler. Apparently, GM execs approached Ford about a possible merger in July but Ford rejected the idea despite the talks progressing until as late as last month. And we though it was hard creating a name for a merger of GM and Chrysler — try coming up with one for Ford and GM. Best we could come up with was "Big Blue Moval." More »
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By Ray WertComment by Ash78: our global assets...that remains Ford's focus I'm more curious how Ford's Fusion with another heavily-unionized company would have worked out. Maybe... 4 Responses | Other threads
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Mulally Says Ford Considering Ka For America
Remember how Ford used to claim the Ka was too small for American tastes? Well, it appears American tastes have sufficiently downsized, and Ford CEO Alan Mulally, during an interview on a local Detroit radio show, said an Americanized Ka has quite a few supporters in the halls of the Dearborn automaker. For those not familiar with the Ka (and since it's never been sold here, that may be many of you), the little city cruiser is about the same width as the old Kia-sourced Ford Aspire — remember the Aspire? — and roughly ten inches shorter. Fortunately, the new Fiat 500-based Ka is also rumored to be at least an order of magnitude more fun to drive, so we're looking forward to finally seeing one on these shores in something other than a James Bond flick. More »
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By Andrew StoyComment by brandegee: The Aspire was part of Mazda's mini-Malaise period, which overshadowed the RX-7 and Miata with dull, ugly cars like the... 3 Responses | Other threads
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Ford Meets With Tracinda, Probably Asked Kerkorian Not To Hurt Them
The week after taking a 5.5% stake in Ford Motor Co., representatives of investment tycoon and corporate raider Kirk Kerkorian's Tracinda Corporation had a little chat with Ford CEO Alan Mulally and executive chairman Bill Ford to discuss [random speculation]. While the meeting was described by Ford representatives as cordial, Tracinda's spokespeople haven't said a word about it. We'll keep our ears to the grindstone on this one, but don't expect much more worth repeating anytime soon. Well, until Jerry York heads to Dearborn to roll some heads. [via Automotive News (sub. req.)]
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By Ray WertComment by Novaload Misses Murilee: Henry Ford is spinning like driveshaft in his tomb. more » | Other threads
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Ford Share Price Down 10%, Could Double Soon! Wait, What?
In a bulletin typical of the Russian-nesting-dolls-style news stories that so often seem to come out of Detroit, Reuters is reporting Barron's will soon report Ford per-share earnings "could" double next year to a buck and 44 cents. It would seem possible happy days are possibly here again...umm, possibly? More »
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By John KrewsonComment by my favorite car is a motorcycle: So now that we've established that Ford has historically sacrificed too much product quality in the elusive search of short-term... more » | Other threads
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Lincoln: Going Global Baby!
Our second favorite Ford executive, CEO Alan Mulally, says the company is considering taking their luxury brand global. Speaking to Auto Motor und Sport, Mulally said, "We are considering distribution in Europe and Asia. We already sell Lincolns in the Middle East." A spokesman for the company was quick to qualify the statement, saying this could happen ""sometime in the future since the priority right now is clearly on North America." Perhaps Licoln hopes to take a leaf from Cadillac's book, that company is on their third attempt to crack the European market, this time with the new CTS. [Source: Automotive News] -
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Ford To Keep Volvo, Move Brand Upscale And Into Diesel-Electric Hybrids?
After parading Volvo through every private equity firm and flea market, Ford Motor Company is now, as expected, planning to hold on to the Swedish automaker. But Ford CEO Alan Mulally's commitment to Volvo isn't unconditional. Ford wants to shape Volvo into a true luxury brand to rival companies like BMW, Mercedes-Benz and Lexus. Oh, and they want the company to make money, too. Experts say that Volvo already has an idyllic company image with extremely high brand loyalty. But Scandanavian design and a reputation for safety have never been enough to draw in the masses: Volvo has never sold more than 500,000 vehicles in a year. In redeveloping the company, Ford knows that maintaining Volvo's image will be the most important and challenging task. More » -
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Pretty Press Shots Of Ford CEO Alan Mulally — In Case You Need Them For Anything
We're not really sure why, but the folks at FoMoCo just dropped a bunch of steamy hot pics of Ford CEO Alan Mulally speaking up at Traverse City onto their press site. And since we're really not sure why anyone would care (OK, maybe this had something to do with it), we thought we'd just drop them into a post and let you folks have some fun. There you go kids, don't ever tell us we don't give you anything, k? More »
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By Ray WertComment by my favorite car is a motorcycle: Mulally's a good leader. Too bad he works at such a dysfunctional company. Just sell off all Ford... more » | Other threads
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Ford's Alan Mulally thinks a gas tax could be the way to go. [Detroit News]
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a watched pot never boils
Who knew being honest about shortcomings at Ford could get you lunch with Alan Mulally? We're expecting our phone call from the FoMoCo CEO shortly. Yup, any minute now...we're almost positive he'll call...we've got a bunch of open dates that'll work. C'mon phone, ring... [Detroit News] -
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First there was quality, then there was cost cutting. Now, for Danny Howes, simplicity is apparently "job one." Only problem is — we think we read this article already on the front page of the business section of yesterday's New York Times. [Detroit News via NYT] -
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Mulally Morning Mayhem! The Ford Quarterly Earnings Call Live-Blog
Well, the numbers are out and things look both good and bad for FoMoCo. As we told you earlier, Henry Ford's baby is seeing things go from bad to worse on the money-makin' front here in North America. On the brighter side of life, they're losing significantly less money overall on a global level. What's this mean for FoMoCo? Well, we're going to listen to Chief Exec Alan Mulally try to make sense of the numbers for us on the automaker's quarterly earnings conference call, and we'll be the only ones with the balls to cover it live. Right here, right now — let's play. More » -
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Detroit News Tells Tall Tale On Bush, Blames Blogs
There's a big reason we didn't cover the silly little anecdote told by Alan Mulally at the New York Auto Show last week — we actually were watching it unfold live on CNBC at the time, and realized his comments in New York were nothing more than an embellished joke, hardly worth of a mention. But his anecdote, that he insinuated he helped save the president from setting himself and FoMoCo's hydrogen-powered vehicle on fire, were responsible for an online conflagration of epic proportions — necessitating Keith Olbermann's piece above. Olbermann's segment, along with further attacks in the blogosphere, have necessitated that the News fire back. The only problem is that they end up blaming "blog mania" for the problem rather than taking responsibility for their own actions which were ten times more blogtastic. Because although the comments by Mulally may have been published first by our good friends at AutoBlog — they weren't responsible for blowing this particular story out of the land of reality and into the land of fiction. Autoblog was smart about how they covered the story — stating the facts, in a this-is-what-he-said account: More »
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By Ray WertComment by my favorite car is a motorcycle: @TPSreports: Overpaid, yes. Stupid, no. Having met the man on more than one occasion, i can tell you... more » | Other threads
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Stop The Presses! Ford CEO Earns More Than Blogger
We knew the good news of slipping market share, $12.7 billion dollar losses, workforce buyouts, plant closures and general awesomeness over at Ford would pay off big, we just didn't know how big. Ford filed docs with the SEC last Thursday reporting executive bonuses will be ever so slightly bigger than the white collar and blue collar bonus - to the tune of up to 2.2 million percent! Main man with a plan Alan "Not Too New To Know Better" Mulally picked up a reported total comp package of $28.2 million with an absolutely biblical $666,667 in regular salary for the four months of toil he's racked up so far at FoMoCo. Big Balla about town Don "Must be The Money" LeClair is expected to be carrying briefcases full of cash around after pulling in a cool million dollar salary and a $3.4 million bonus. Mark "Funkmaster" Fields is laughing at us all the way to the bank with $1.3 million in salary and $4.2 million in bonus bucks. Yup, auto exec definitely pays better than blogger. More » -
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New York Auto Show: Ford Does The Minivan Muscle Flex Live!
Alan, Mark, Horbury, Mays — the whole gang was on hand to preview two new cars for the auto-show media fleet here in New York. The first, the Shelby GT500/KR. But you know, we've seen that already. What haven't we seen? Well, we haven't seen them Flex yet. Until today. Here's the press release and the live shots from here on the Javits floor. We'll have more on Ford's minivan muscle flex soon. More » -
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New York Auto Show: What The Hell Is This Secret Ford Behind The Curtain At The Mulally Morning Muncher
This morning's breakfast will feature FoMoCo CEO Alan "Still the new guy" Mulally, but as the auto press filtered in I happened upon the following "secret" vehicle all under wraps. Pay no attention to the whatever behind the curtain said the FoMoCo staffer. We snapped away nonetheless. We'll have more on whatever this thing is shortly we're assuming — but anyone want to "flex" their mental muscle and help tell us what this is? More » -
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President Bush Plays With Cars, Has A Really Corny Meeting With US Automakers
We love it anytime Bush speaks and he's not behind a podium. We just love how hewalksstruts out all gunslinger-like. Seriously, it just tickles us in all sorts of wonderful ways. Today he's taking the CEO's of the traditional US automakers, and yeah, they showed off their "very relevant" E85-powered vehicles (and in the case of FoMoCo, a hydrogen-powered concept Car-UV that likes to live on the Eh-dge!) Here's the rose garden press conference, in it's entirety — enjoy the strutting, and "Slick" Rick Wagoner, Alan "New Guy" Mulally and Tom "For Sale" LaSorda showing and telling the Prez all about their not-quite-ready-for-primetimefuel efficientenvironmentally-efficientcorny lineup. Full transcript of all involved after the jump. More » -
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Breaking! Ford To Offer Bonuses To All Employees
That's right, big or small, blue collar or white — you're all getting bonuses. Here's a question — why? Oh wait, there's a letter here from FoMoCo CEO Alan Mulally. Maybe this'll explain it:To: Employees in the U.S. and Canada
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By Ray WertComment by Ben Wojdyla: I can almost hear the conversations (I'll call my ford buddies later to confirm): "Sure would have been nice to have... more » | Other threads
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Ford Exodus: A Jalopnik-Bialystock Production
We're assuming at least 10,000 FoMoCo employees will be taking the long route home today, with the remainder of employees "left behind" wondering why they didn't take advantage of those early buyouts. But if this is a true "exodus" from Dearborn as the headline from the Freep this morning suggests, we're wondering who plays who in this turnaround story of biblical proportions on stage today in Dearborn? Our guesses on the playbill after the jump. More » -
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By Ray WertComment by my favorite car is a motorcycle: magnusjohnson, Bankruptcy can indeed be a business tactic undertaken by corrupt management to screw shareholders and employees. I don't suspect... more » | Other threads
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Jalopnik Poll: What Will Alan Mulally Sell?
Responding to alleged dealer grumbling at the National Automobile Dealers Association convention in Las Vegas, Ford CEO Alan Mulally agreed to step up and into an as yet undetermined dealership for one day to sell Fords directly. While details are still hazy as to when and where, we do know that Ford officials are busy selecting a time and place for theone day super blowout saleattempt at getting to know the customer. Mulally reportedly had more contact with customers when he was head of Boeing's commercial aeroplane division then he does now at the troubled blue oval, and is looking forward to meeting folks and selling some Fords. The big question is, what will he sell the most of? Now step right over here son, we've got a fine looking 707 only ever flown on Sundays by John Travolta with plenty of good hours left on her. More »
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Alan Mulally Becomes Excited, Engages In Man-Love While At Boeing
It's January, 1995 — and that's former Boeing exec (still Boeing exec at the time of the video) and current FoMoCo CEO, Alan Mulally, watching quietly as the plane he was once the project lead on undergoes some extreme wing stress testing in the plane manufacturer's hanger. So, what we can learn from this video is that Alan Mulally has a history of meeting and exceeding his goals. Also, and this goes out directly to Mark Fields — if you can figure out a way to get a Ford Edge to do this, your boss will become so excited he will engage in hetero man-love with you. Just an fyi. More »
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