Thread regarding Ford layoffs

Ford F150 Lightning is dead. There are no production at the assembly plant, no production at the battery pack plant RCP, no production at BOSK KY battery plant. Assembly plant laid off and shift workers to other Ford plants in MI.
Ford cant sell the Lightning, customers are not interested, Ford loses $50K for every EV they make. Why in he-l would anyone keep on making a product that your customers don't want to buy.

@gr an MBA would know you don’t need an apostrophy

@d7 I respect MBA’s less and less everyday lol

I love you .Dougie

Ah the things people who don’t have to work for this leadership team are free to say without fear.

"One of the largest car companies in the world should have foreseen such a significant change." It amazes me that with all the MBAs in that glass house (soon to be bothering the engineers I guess), they get so many forecasts so wrong.

Ford used a strategy to temporarily extend the expired federal electric vehicle (EV) tax credit by having its financing arm, Ford Credit, purchase EVs from dealer inventory before the September 30, 2025 deadline ending the federal tax credit for EVs. This allowed the company to claim the $7,500 federal tax credit under commercial fleet rules, which it then passed on to consumers through discounted lease offers. Ford also maintained competitive lease pricing (for example 0% financing for 72 months). This contributed to a surge in Q3 2025 EV sales, with Ford reporting a record 30,612 BEV sales—a 30.2% year-over-year increase—boosting short-term performance of failed products using borrowed money and government tax credits.

Ford later abandoned the credit-backed leasing program, so future lease deals no longer include the full $7,500 incentive. This will likely reduce future EV demand below what was anticipated when the program was conceived.

Ford has the weakest credit rating among major automakers, reflecting concerns over slower cost reduction, EV profitability losses, exposure to tariff risks, and chronically high debt-equity ratios. In contrast, Tesla and Stellantis have stronger or improving outlooks, while Toyota and Honda maintain significantly higher investment-grade ratings due to stronger balance sheets and profitability.

Ford's borrowing to give the failed EV program a soft landing will most most likely lead to more "ripping off the bandaid" layoffs during the next cyclic downturn in the automobile market. There is no lack of irony in this.

Ford’s comment about the Lightning is a claim that it is good to be a 5 feet, 3 inches tall person in a room of people who are 5 feet tall.

Unrelated, but this made me lol. Usually 5 foot 8 is even considered short in a room of 5 foot people, you would need to be 5 foot 11 or 6 foot to be considered a tall or good height. Being 5 foot 3 is seen almost negligible to being the same as 5 foot.

https://247wallst.com/cars-and-drivers/2025/10/27/ford-gets-a-correction-to-our-f-150-lightning-story/

In 2022 Fartley was dead set on “full speed ahead for BEVs, damn the ICE and you will buy a BEV if you want it or not” “And by the way we need to get rid of the ICE engineers because those old dogs can’t be taught new tricks”

LMFAO!

100% appropriate response; we've become laughing stocks who only desperately celebrate even harder in the hopes that our cheering will drawn out the facts of our failures.