Just heard on news that Ford has offered redundancy to 75,000 employees!!

 

not good

 

Says they will make it official later today........
Hmmmmmm

 

Losses in US of 9 billion dollars...now thats shed loads
Just wonder how it affects us here in UK?

 

Its not as bad as it reads, they announced months ago that they were shedding 25-30k jobs in North America. to facilitate this loss they are offering packages to all unionized staff (75k people) nobody has to take the offer!! though they are expecting 20k to take up the VR packages

 

If they built propper cars again they might not need to get rid of there staff

BRING BACK THE RS and fuck of with the ST wannabee

 

it already affected us, they cut 10% of staff at christmas to help save the states, they are also bleeding us dry to keep them going too

but that just helped us loose the dead weight staff at my branch, it was more cutting the fat rather than loosing staff

 

Its mostly pick-up and suv sales slumps that have caused the problems. as the American consumer has begun to wake up to the fact that sub 10 to the gallon aint smart! For the first time in an age ford EU is proping the rest of the company up

 

Wayne

I was only kidding I do understand there is a lot more to running a world class company that just one type of model

I just like to get if off my chest that it pisses me off they dont make an RS anymore and expect us to be happy with the ST,

Altho the ST"s may be a good car , they arnt an Rs and never will replace one

 

Will it efefct the UK?

YES MASSIVLY

THe US has been supporting Europe for the last 7 years - with out that the whole Europe opperation would be dead.

This is serious bad news.

Over 10 years ago it was predicted one of the Big 3 would go pop. Sadly it looks like its going ot be ford

Alex

 

I believe GM are to follow suit soon with roughly the same quantity of redundancies (30k).

 

Who is the biggest car production company in the world? Out of curiosity!

 

its already affected ford though mate, but its prob gonna get alot worse

we are stuggling to meet targets these days and our GP is down 10% we are now some days scratching for sales and the drivers are working alot harder for the same profit total


the industry is having it hard


ford are fortunate that they can car boot sale some of there other brands to keep the share holders happy, but thats only gonna be for so long

 

Business Darwinism Gents.Those who can adapt and evolve + those
who won't or can't go the way of the dinosaurs.......

 

Most profitable is Toyota in fact they are the most profitable company in history, they are not however the biggest car maker in the world and if you think about it that makes them even better in terms of profit, unfortunately the Americans and europe have a lot to learn about making cars from the japs in terms of efficiency and cost and right first time quality

 

They need to sort it out!!

 

serves um right for dropping the escort

 

agree

Bring the RS back

Dave.

 

A mate of mine who works for a ford dealership told me his garage are starting to sell other makes such as hyundai,mitsubishi and subaru because they could see ford going down the pan.That was over a year ago.

 

this is called recession!!!
its coming and its going to hurt anyone in debt when it really takes hold.

anyone notice that in the uk second hand car sales total figures have for the first time gone ahead of new car sales,
the new car sales are the first to be hit by the slowing down of the economy,how many 56 plate cars have you seen this month?not many.

 

Ive only seen 2 56 plated cars on the road

 

who are the big 3 then? vag, ford & gm?

 

Just been reading about this on another site, savage stuff indeed!

Looks like there going to sell Aston.

 

i have seen one... and there is not that many o6 plates

 

all in fucking see is 56 reg cars,,,,, cause our fucking salesmen aint selling em


tim i think your right, reccesion is about to come back,,, soon as the interest rises where all gonna get fucked on our morgages and the average of 15k debt

theres a few places that are not car related i know that are talking of redundencys aswell


but im not worried,,,,, as when im skint ill be safe in the fact you have enough cash to loan me a tenner till the weather breaks

 

Absofuckinglutely spot on