Hi, Guest
01-06-2006, 12:42 PM
Even more bad news for Ford in Canada. For the 2005 calendar year, Chrysler outsold Ford for the first time ever ... 216,857 total car and truck vs. 211, 986.
It wasn't that long ago (1991 when I first started doing work for Ford) that Ford had about 24% of the Canadian market ... GM had about 35% and Chrysler was at about 14%.
Today GM still hovers around 30%, while Ford has slipped to below 13% and as noted above Chrysler is obviously now ahead of Ford; while Toyota, with one-fourth the number of dealers, is nipping at Ford's heels.
Under the less than watchful gaze of Jac Nasser, and to some degree Alex Trotman, Ford really took their eyes off the ball (especially in terms of cars and quality) and it is possible that they may never fully recover.
We could be witnessing history in the making here. In any event, it seems certain that Ford's next 100 years will be nothing like their first century.
It wasn't that long ago (1991 when I first started doing work for Ford) that Ford had about 24% of the Canadian market ... GM had about 35% and Chrysler was at about 14%.
Today GM still hovers around 30%, while Ford has slipped to below 13% and as noted above Chrysler is obviously now ahead of Ford; while Toyota, with one-fourth the number of dealers, is nipping at Ford's heels.
Under the less than watchful gaze of Jac Nasser, and to some degree Alex Trotman, Ford really took their eyes off the ball (especially in terms of cars and quality) and it is possible that they may never fully recover.
We could be witnessing history in the making here. In any event, it seems certain that Ford's next 100 years will be nothing like their first century.
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2003 Focus ZX5 infra-red Track Rat - R*I*P
2003 ZX5 CD Silver Track Rat - retired, but still in the driveway
New track rat: 2000 ZX3, Atlantic Blue * JRSC with lots more to come
* New Zetec crate motor - NFG - thanks Topspeed *