They wanna kill the Taurus because it's a fleet car yet....
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They wanna kill the Taurus because it's a fleet car yet....
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Taurus is old, and overdue for a restyling, yet it's still a huge seller (fleet or not).
The Futura seems like it will be something to look at. Not from a high performance standpoint, but from a well designed, family car standpoint.
Did that article say Ford's expanded their interior design budget 3 fold?!
The Futura seems like it will be something to look at. Not from a high performance standpoint, but from a well designed, family car standpoint.
Did that article say Ford's expanded their interior design budget 3 fold?!
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Re: They wanna kill the Taurus because it's a fleet car yet....
I think Ford's point is that over half (IIRC) of Taurus's sales are from fleet and they'd like to get that ratio down a bit. They don't want to totally stop selling to fleets because there's very good business reasons to sell this way: it evens out production and inventory, gives many people a chance to test the car out, etc. Even Honda and Toyota still sell to fleets, they're just not as dependent on them as the big three.
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Originally posted by guess who
What's your point????
The Taurus is old it is time for change (way past time)
What's your point????
The Taurus is old it is time for change (way past time)
In anycase, Ford has finally decided on a reasonable course of platform sharing and established model segment competion. The Taurus was Ford's sole competitor in the V6-sedan market. Considering that this one car had to go up against everything from the Malibu to the LeSabre, it was time for some more variation in the Ford line-up.
At this stage, the Futura looks like a decent product concept, and I hope Ford does well with it. Realistically, no current Ford car is viable without fleet sales, not even the current Mustang. However, there's no reason why the Futura won't be decently represented in the retail market.
I'd say that William Clay Ford might just be turning around his "family company." I hope so, because I think he is HOT!!
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I like how people on this board speak as if Ford is the only company that has fleet sales.GM has a freighter full of companies that buy from them for their fleet purposes.Which consists of Grand Prix's Grand AM's Cavalier/sunfire's not to mention trucks so plz,End that hogwash soon.It is getting old.Fast.
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Originally posted by l_bilyk
define *killed off*
GM killed off the camaro becuase there is no more chevy pony car... ford simply decided not to call the next generation taurus a a "taurus"
define *killed off*
GM killed off the camaro becuase there is no more chevy pony car... ford simply decided not to call the next generation taurus a a "taurus"
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Re: Re: They wanna kill the Taurus because it's a fleet car yet....
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I think Ford's point is that over half (IIRC) of Taurus's sales are from fleet and they'd like to get that ratio down a bit. They don't want to totally stop selling to fleets because there's very good business reasons to sell this way: it evens out production and inventory, gives many people a chance to test the car out, etc. Even Honda and Toyota still sell to fleets, they're just not as dependent on them as the big three.
There's a website that doesn't like Mozilla
I think Ford's point is that over half (IIRC) of Taurus's sales are from fleet and they'd like to get that ratio down a bit. They don't want to totally stop selling to fleets because there's very good business reasons to sell this way: it evens out production and inventory, gives many people a chance to test the car out, etc. Even Honda and Toyota still sell to fleets, they're just not as dependent on them as the big three.
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Crapus Maximus, I wish companies would hire more proficient developers than grade 11 high school students. Will they learn to develop not just for IE, but also for Netscape 7.x + (which is Mozilla)?
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Originally posted by Z284ever
Looks like the Five Hundred will be the next Taurus and the Futura will be the next Contour.
Looks like the Five Hundred will be the next Taurus and the Futura will be the next Contour.
Futura=Camry
Five-Hundred = Avalon
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Originally posted by Z284ever
Looks like the Five Hundred will be the next Taurus and the Futura will be the next Contour.
Looks like the Five Hundred will be the next Taurus and the Futura will be the next Contour.
The Taurus could be called Fords flagship....It is a pretty nice car even though it is out dated.
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