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could VW and Ford build share the Ranger Platform and make some really good Turbo diesel engines?
VW will not share the new Ranger Truck platform VW wants to use Ford’s extra capacity to build their own vehicles no sharing a platform together like Ford/ Mazda. Here we go everyone jumping to conclusions that they are joining forces to build vehicles together that didn’t take long.
VW will not share the new Ranger Truck platform VW wants to use Ford’s extra capacity to build their own vehicles no sharing a platform together like Ford/ Mazda. Here we go everyone jumping to conclusions that they are joining forces to build vehicles together that didn’t take long.
That's what I asked earlier. So, from this I assume it will not be the same as Chrysler building VW vans.
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The Routan was a Chrysler minivan with slight restyling and (in some years) a VW engine. It also had dismal sales, hitting about a quarter of projections.
These kind of blended vehicles don't tend to have spectacular sales or mean much to the assembly contractor except keeping a few production lines running. I can't see Ford doing much more than collecting a paycheck for doing the same - yeah, it's jobs and so forth, but about as close to McJobs as it gets in that industry.
Wouldn't be the worst play for Ford. They have a lot of idle powertrain and assembly capacity and there is no reason why they couldn't become a contract manufacturer. I've never understood why, in this day and age, any automaker would want to make their own product and deal with the labor headaches associated with it. They can easily contract out the whole assembly.
Wouldn't be the worst play for Ford. They have a lot of idle powertrain and assembly capacity and there is no reason why they couldn't become a contract manufacturer. I've never understood why, in this day and age, any automaker would want to make their own product and deal with the labor headaches associated with it. They can easily contract out the whole assembly.
Can’t do that they have labor contracts with the UAW. Apparently you don’t understand how labor contracts work. I guess you’re young and don’t understand how the automotive industry works.
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Can’t do that they have labor contracts with the UAW. Apparently you don’t understand how labor contracts work. I guess you’re young and don’t understand how the automotive industry works.
Yeah - I'm 'young'. I spent almost 30 years working for GM, Ford, Toyota, Land Rover, Nissan, and others. So I obviously know nothing about that industry.
UAW contracts are up for renewal every 4 years. Ford's ends in September of 2019. They could easily add in the VW work, or decide not to.
Ford could also say that they are making a break from the UAW and contracting things out. They could do a lot of things. The UAW doesn't have near the power they once did, and business models are changing. From what I saw the UAW as an organization never did a single thing for the manufacturers so seeing them go would be no loss. They have a lot of good members, people I've worked on the line with, but as a whole I'd shed the UAW organization like a dead skin if it was up to me.
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