Ford posts $8.7 billion loss on asset write-downs - Yahoo! News

Looks like they will be doing a pretty big switch to smaller vehicles in the US.

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Oh great...Is the Focus, Escort or Probe coming back?
By the way, who thinks up these names?

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Nah, they are bringing back the Pinto. They are trying to get the same crash results as the first model before releasing it.



Remember the Pinto? I used to see them as a kid and dad used to talk about Ford saving money on the car by cutting safety. Ford said it was better to pocket $49 million (after lawsuits) by not adding the correction to the car ($139 million in cost) and calculated the average human life was worth $200K.

The Ford Pinto and the Price of Life «

Hey Tox... easy now... I had to drive one of these for a year or so when I was much, much younger. However, I always wore a ski mask because I didn't want anybody recognizing me driving the POS, lol!!!

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In high school I always laughed at this vehicle. I mean who wants to drive a car named after a tool that a proctologist uses??

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Ah yes, the Pinto, they always reminded me of the AMC Pacer.

I always thought that a tricked out Pacer Station Wagon would be a lot of fun.

If Ford brings back the Pinto - then GM will need to resurrect the Vega name, LOL.

re.ac.tor

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I wouldn't be too thrilled about driving around a vehicle name after a type of bean either.

Speaking of vehicle names, I was having a conversation w/ a fellow Tundra owner.... We chuckled over the fact that there is NOTHING remotely close to "tundra" in our area.... Are there even an "TUNDRAS" in the continental United States?

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There are Tundras in the Rockies up on the mountains.

We had a Pinto station wagon as a kid...and I lived to talk about it!

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