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more about #fordmotorcompany more comments → Pessimippopotamus: Why is Ford changing the styling for the North American market again? What's wrong with it? I know it'll be a minor change, mostly a bumper job. But t... more » Novaload: I have seen the future and it is toy-like, tiny fugly-assed jellybeans on tiny wheels with engines an old sewing machine would outpower. more » A strolling player: Okay, screw my memory, but has any subcompact ever been hyped this much? more » MushyHeirloom: Couldn't they have dropped an American-market Focus from the roof? Onto bitumen? In freefall? more » .357: Go, Go Power Rangers! more » Nitrous Oxide: I see many reasonable comments that chapter 11 wouldn't be a bad thing. That's normally true, but not for this type of industry. That's because the cu... more » P161911 probably shoudn't have: Atlanta has gone from 3 Assembly plants (GM Lakewood closed in the 1980's, GM Doraville closed this year, and Ford Hapeville closed in 2006) to none. ... more » my favorite car is a motorcycle: Rome burns while Nero Bush fiddles. Sad, really, that Paulson felt it necessary to reward his richest friends rather than the people who actually sti... more » Charles_Barrett - Now with Variable-Valve Timing: Superior Industries International, in Van Nuys, CA, supplies many major automakers for OEM aluminum cast and forged wheels. Back when GM was building ... more » tgpt: Oh look, a bunch of pushpins in states that voted to prevent me from getting married. more » sos10: Failure is the new success. more » elwood: Well, if only one of the Big 3 goes down, that wouldn't take out all the push pins. And anyways, someone else would probably buy the factories to bui... more » slowinthefastlane: What about the Canadian plants? They'll be hit just as hard. GM has active plants in Oshawa, Ontario; Windsor, Ontario (until 2010); and the CAMI plan... more » adp113: Maybe failure is what the auto industry needs so it can reinvent itself as a success. Innovation in Detroit is something that has gone missing a long... more » d0nut: The push pin for the Chrysler engine plant in Keosha WI is missing also. You could put a half a pin in for the Janesville SUV plant also but they are ... more » -
#shanghaiautoshow
2009 Ford Fiesta Gets Cirque Du Soleil'd In Shanghai
Ford had quite the display in Shanghai. They dropped an '09 Fiesta from the roof, ecoBoosted a Flex, showed off a Euro-Focus racer, the kinetic-designed Iosis Max Concept and had flying, leather-clad booth professionals. Rowr! More » -
#whathappensifthenotsobigthreefail
Map Of Every Domestic Automaker Manufacturing Site Reveals The Extent Of The Carpocalypse
People say "Detroit" deserves to fail. Maybe, but as you can tell by the map below of every manufacturing facility from the domestic automakers, they'll take pretty much the entire Midwest with 'em. -
