Ford recalls 1.8 million vehicles...

[badkuk]

has anyone seen GungHo? tumpak sa topic na to ung palabas na un

[mazdamazda]

Originally posted by badkuk
imho nasa culture din ata...sa japan kc their workers(well, at least sa auto makers) have a very strong sense of loyalty to their companies, kc if they bring honor to their companies, proud din sila. Just dunno if it translates to worker salaries/benefits though B).

tsaka their work ethic is unbelievable -- somewhere in the vicinity of 16 hours a day! sheesh!

errr, the JAPANESE "imports" that is being sold in the USA are already being assembled stateside. so i don't think that it is the worker's fault.

[benchph1]

gungho starring michael keaton? yeah napanood ko yun....hehehe "ASAN" motors yata yung kotse nila dun

[explorer]

Originally posted by Tikoyman
Fix Or Repair Daily(FORD) ...... just recently relegated to 3rd place by Toyota in Sales.... ngayon recall pa nila yung tsikot nila?

Toyota hurdles by Ford to No. 2 . Japanese firm says it made 6.83 million vehicles in 2003 -- but comparison not exact
January 26, 2004
BY JAMIE BUTTERS
FREE PRESS BUSINESS WRITER

Toyota Motor Corp. said it made 6.83 million vehicles in 2003, a sign that the Japanese company likely has supplanted Ford Motor Co. as the world's second-largest automaker, behind only General Motors Corp.

Late Sunday night, Toyota announced its worldwide production figure, which topped the 6.72 million that Ford listed as its year-end sales total last week.

It isn't quite an apples-to-apples comparison. The number that Ford released last week represents the vehicles the company sold wholesale -- primarily to dealers. That number is very close to, but not exactly the same as, its worldwide production figure because there are some adjustments made for sales to special customers, like car rental agencies.

But with a 110,000-vehicle gap between the two automakers, it looks like Toyota has taken the second spot. Toyota plans to reveal its comparable wholesale figure on Feb. 5 with the financial results from the third quarter of its fiscal year, spokesmen said.

Ford has been known as the No. 2 automaker for decades, but officials from both companies took great pains to downplay the significance of the possible switch.

"The focus is on the customer," said Toyota spokesman Mike Michels. "And quite frankly, the customer doesn't care whether the carmaker is 1, 2, 3 or 4."

After posting its first annual profit in three years last week, Ford executives said they are more concerned with continuing to improve cars and trucks.

In that, they sound just like their colleagues from Toyota.
"What we're concerned about is being the best, not being bigger than someone or smaller than someone," said Don LeClair, Ford's chief financial officer.

Even if Toyota reports a bigger sales number on Feb. 5, ranking it second to GM may be as controversial as college football's Bowl Championship Series system that didn't invite the No. 1 team to the national title game.

Some Ford employees and retirees complain that this would never be happening if the U.S. market were as closed to foreign competition as Japan's -- or if U.S. automakers didn't face such steep tariffs in Japan.

That may be true. But the bigger -- and more concrete -- reason is that Ford's total excludes the roughly 1.1 million cars and trucks made and sold by Mazda Motor Corp., which Ford legally controls with just over a one-third stake.

At the same time, almost 11 percent of Toyota's sales are from the Hino heavy-truck and Daihatsu micro-car businesses, in which Toyota owns just over half of the stock.

Traditionally, 50 percent has served as the arbitrary line at which companies report the operation of a subsidiary as if it were part of the parent.

[explorer]

Originally posted by sikuya
you mean GENERAL MOTORS?there are no massive recalls by ford in the US at the moment, only GM. and the 1.8M vehicles affected are not being sold in the philippines:1998-2001 chevy cavaliers and pontiac sunfires and the older models 1998 pontiac grand am, buick skylark and oldsmobile achieva(the last 2 discontinued models cuz they really sucked!!!!!).

yup. it's GM.

http://www.freep.com/money/autonews/gm7_20040207.htm

http://www.freep.com/money/autonews/irep10_20040210.htm

[boybi]

Originally posted by badkuk
imho nasa culture din ata...sa japan kc their workers(well, at least sa auto makers) have a very strong sense of loyalty to their companies, kc if they bring honor to their companies, proud din sila. Just dunno if it translates to worker salaries/benefits though B).

tsaka their work ethic is unbelievable -- somewhere in the vicinity of 16 hours a day! sheesh!

the jap workers are even forced to take extended paid leaves/vacations because some companies are over producing, not that the demand is low, but because of the efficient and hardworking work force.

[woulfe27]

hehe, napanood ko yang gung ho, badkuk. si michael keaton bida. kakatawa yung away ng mga japs saka americans na automakers

Originally posted by badkuk
has anyone seen GungHo? tumpak sa topic na to ung palabas na un

[sikuya]

woulfe,
again, the massive recalls were done by GM, not ford....

the recalls by General Motors have even become more massive when the issued 2 additional recalls as follows:
1)636,000 SUV's for malfunction in the wipers, 2 bad accidents reported in the US. affected are the chevy trailblazers and trailblazers EXT, GMC envoy and envoy XL, oldsmobile bravada and isuzu ascender.
2)127,000 chevy corvettes for malfunctioning steering column lock.

that's 2.5million vehicles being recalled for fixes in a matter of 1 week!GM get your acts together.you're as bad as chrysler/dodge

[theveed]

Originally posted by mazdamazda
errr, the JAPANESE "imports" that is being sold in the USA are already being assembled stateside. so i don't think that it is the worker's fault.

true true