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March 6, 2008 9:15 AM PST
Video: New Ford Fiesta
The Ford Fiesta is back! Redesigned by Ford of Europe, this new offering is ready to stake its claim in the affordable car realm. Brian Cooley takes a first look at the 2008 Geneva auto show.
Only Chrylser replied and told me that "auto manufacturers continually study the buyer's needs and offer choices that reflect the needs and wants of the buying customer".
This was the only reply I received.
Unfortunately for the American Big 3 firms, and unfortunately for the American workers making Ford GM and Chrysler autos, the desire to sell to the "needs and wants" of the buying public led them to keep selling highly profitable and stupid SUVs so much so that even the copy cat Japanese firms loaded up on them to grab that gullible and stupid American buyer's fat money because the non stop brain washing advertising for SUVs took over the TV and radio time.
Every parking lot was filled with stupid SUVs.
I will bet that 95% and greater of people buying and leasing SUVs had no idea why they had one, had no need for one, and got one because of some perceived safety issue or snowy weather issue as if no snow plows ever existed and as if it snowed on every square inch of the USA (half of which hardly has snow)
They USA firms cut their own throats and now that everyone is just laying low and just plain afraid of being afraid and are buyng very little, especially cars, they are unable to sell many small cars that people now finally want to buy.
If they had seen the success they had in Europe and just had small cars in their line up as well as SUVs, they could have shifted to "needs and wants" of the buying public as did Honda and Toyota did when those 2 just rebadged and restyled the small cars they sell in their home turf and in other markets.
Now we are offered only auto show videos of the European Fiesta (I had a '78 Fiesta for about 5 years and the car was super in snow and fun to drive and scoot around in and fit in every parking space in every tight city street) It had only the 4 speed stick shift, no power anything with no AC and only a sunroof and ran on those 12 inch wheels with a British Ford 1.6 liter motor, an Italian Weber carb, a Japanese radiator, and it was assembled by Ford in Germany. It had a metal sunroof that swapped out with a glass sunroof the only tilted up in the back. I bought it with 78,000 miles and kept it for another 5 years of reliable service. Put all new tires one winter when Sears had a sale on their brand and if felt as if the car could climb Mt Everest in the snow with new threads.
I hope Ford GM and Chrylser survive, I hope we start feeling better about our future and stop our pessimism and start buying anything and especially vehicles from our US firms as soon as possible because if we allow them and other companies to suffer more people will lose jobs and then we further hurt ourselves.
(Keep your US car bashing comments because you wont be appreciated. That is just TOO easy for you to do and accomplishes nothing.)
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by detroitshow
March 27, 2009 8:54 PM PDT
- Can't wait till it comes here. America is waiting! Your review is right on! If any thing I can suggest, it'd be music I heard on this link - check it out
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