Ford closing St. Thomas, Ontario plant as part of new union deal!!!!, The end of the Crown Vic..and a couple more besides..... Options

[twintornados]

DeLorean's head has been frozen and sits with ted Williams as we speak.

They are waiting for the rise of a new automotive superpower before they defrost him to take the reins and usher in a new age.


Maybe they should make the deceased John Z the new Chair/CEO of GM. Cant be any worse than any CEO theyve had for the past 30 years

China will be the defrosting place for both John Z and Ted Williams.....just in time for the 2063 Galaxy Series featuring the Beijing Yankees in their debut after George Steinbrenners' clone sold the team. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/hysterical.gif)

[Cocheese]

Was this before or after Wixom was closed?

Most of it came from STAP. I only ever went to Wixom when they were counting the days, but I was less than impressed. What I've been told by vendors, it wasn't a shock it got axed. Different story from the same guys regarding STAP however. Moving the Town Car, under budget and on time (even with an acknowledged low budget and tight time frame), helped big time. A lot of Ford execs were impressed. Being in a meeting and hearing "why can't some of our other plants be as dependable as St Thomas" was a nice little compliment. Too bad it means little now.

[J-150]

China will be the defrosting place for both John Z and Ted Williams.....just in time for the 2063 Galaxy Series featuring the Beijing Yankees in their debut after George Steinbrenners' clone sold the team. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/hysterical.gif)

LMAO!

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[Ford Jellymoulds]

It will be sad to see the St Thomas closing surely Ford could have used it to produce something else.

Gotta say l really like the Ranger its one of my favourite FOE vehicles, its a shame we don't get the Canadian Ranger l would buy one. One big thing that puts me off the Ranger and l am sure many other Europeans is it is made in Thailand, not only that l had a close look at one at my local Ford dealers panel fits were poor the cutting in of the bed liners looked very sloppy it looks like the Thai worker work to limits of + or - 2" when you look at cutouts on the front edge of the liners, my dog could have it chewed out more accurately they looked dreadful. Still if Ford wanna pay Thai workers peanuts then they get monkeys.

Shame its not a Canadian or US made Ranger l might have brought one.

[rmc523]

It will be sad to see the St Thomas closing surely Ford could have used it to produce something else.

Gotta say l really like the Ranger its one of my favourite FOE vehicles, its a shame we don't get the Canadian Ranger l would buy one. One big thing that puts me off the Ranger and l am sure many other Europeans is it is made in Thailand, not only that l had a close look at one at my local Ford dealers panel fits were poor the cutting in of the bed liners looked very sloppy it looks like the Thai worker work to limits of + or - 2" when you look at cutouts on the front edge of the liners, my dog could have it chewed out more accurately they looked dreadful. Still if Ford wanna pay Thai workers peanuts then they get monkeys.

Shame its not a Canadian or US made Ranger l might have brought one.

Interesting that you'd want our Ranger. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/headscratch.gif) Have you seen ours outside pictures?

This post has been edited by rmc523: Nov 15 2009, 01:39 PM

[Ford Jellymoulds]

Interesting that you'd want our Ranger. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/headscratch.gif) Have you seen ours outside pictures?

Build quality.

[Pioneer]

It will be sad to see the St Thomas closing surely Ford could have used it to produce something else.

Too much capacity. Look for Ford to close another American assembly plant in the 2011 contract negotiations.

Unless there is a miraculous 17 Million sales rate by then, and Fords market share skyrockets. Both are a stretch.

EDIT: Not only assembly, but stamping/powertrain as well.

This post has been edited by Pioneer: Nov 15 2009, 02:17 PM

[Ford Jellymoulds]

Too much capacity. Look for Ford to close another American assembly plant in the 2011 contract negotiations.

Unless there is a miraculous 17 Million sales rate by then, and Fords market share skyrockets. Both are a stretch.

EDIT: Not only assembly, but stamping/powertrain as well.

Well they want to stop giving all their work away to everybody else to make. Everything that comes out of Thailand has a junk reputation why dump the Thai made $h!t on Europe, why cant the Thai Ranger be made Stateside or at St Thomas if you are getting short of work. Ford is an American Company?

London to US 3,500 miles - London to Thailand 6,000 miles. Wonder how much Thai Ranger spare parts cost Ford or its customer to have shipped all the way from Thailand to Europe that must be good for Fords green image makers. Must cost a lot of $$$ to do?

You learn from a very early age that a Kamasa socket that has "Made in Thailand" stamped on it might be cheap. But most of the time it will round the socket off if its a high quality bolt, or round the corners off a low quality bolt because they are a poor fit - false economy. Snap-On sockets don't do this, only problem is you are a bit out of pocket if you lose the socket, but l prefer the US made quality to Thai junk thank you very much.

This post has been edited by Ford Jellymoulds: Nov 15 2009, 03:19 PM