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Old 17th May 2018, 06:17 PM   #25
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Originally Posted by Segnosaur View Post
So the concern is that Ford may eventually start to sell fewer gas guzzlers, and they won't have the small car market to fall back on.
In the 2000's, Chrysler, then owned by Daimler-Benz, was pushing performance to the exclusion of anything else. Hemi, Hemi, Hemi! Then 2008 arrived and they had no efficient or cost-effective cars at all, which left them by far the worst-off of the American big three.

Ford was the best-off of them. They should be thinking about that.
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