My take on it is having a 'hot selling' vehicle is better than having just a large inventory of unsalable vehicles. At least with a 'hot' vehicle, you have a club to give your design and manufacturing engineering management a 'clue by four.' If they want to get that Ford pension and bonus, they need to catch up with the customers or find new jobs.

Personally, I was appalled when the head of the Ford Escape hybrid program left Ford just as the product hit the show rooms. I was hoping it was "burn out" but feared it was something else.

Bob Wilson

Operation Iraqi Oil Freedom:

Automatic, stock, project car.

My other 1500 cc car:

Automatic, stock, backup car.
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