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Ford to offer employee pricing on cars

Posted on 4/3/25 at 8:53 am
Posted by NashvilleTider
Your Mom
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Posted on 4/3/25 at 8:53 am
Posted by Houag80
Member since Jul 2019
17699 posts
Posted on 4/3/25 at 8:54 am to
I sense panic and fear in this man.
Posted by The Egg
Houston, TX
Member since Dec 2004
83105 posts
Posted on 4/3/25 at 8:54 am to
except their own employees prob wouldn't want to drive their cars
Posted by GalvoAg
Galveston TX
Member since Apr 2012
11215 posts
Posted on 4/3/25 at 8:55 am to
He should be those truck prices are fricking wack, I’m gonna run this 22 Ranger into the ground.


A couple thousand isn’t going to do shite.
Posted by Lgrnwd
Member since Jan 2018
8275 posts
Posted on 4/3/25 at 8:55 am to
Trump bringing down inflation as promised
Posted by Jake88
Member since Apr 2005
77804 posts
Posted on 4/3/25 at 8:56 am to
Is that really anything? Wouldn't a decent negotiator so at least as well? And, it's on inventory not subject to tariffs since they have been manufactured before this went into place.
Posted by TigersHuskers
Nebraska
Member since Oct 2014
14495 posts
Posted on 4/3/25 at 8:56 am to
I'd still take a Chevy
Posted by HubbaBubba
North of DFW, TX
Member since Oct 2010
50735 posts
Posted on 4/3/25 at 8:58 am to
Wait for it, the days of dealers gouging consumers with stupid 'market adjustment' stickers adding $5k to $20k to the cost of a car is over. Dealers are going to be offering price concessions, extended warranties, and manufacturers offering price incentives, rebates and already seeing low interest loans of 0.9% in ads.
Posted by GumboPot
Member since Mar 2009
138911 posts
Posted on 4/3/25 at 8:58 am to
Obvious response to cars not selling.
Posted by KingOfTheWorld
South of heaven, west of hell
Member since Oct 2018
7278 posts
Posted on 4/3/25 at 8:59 am to
This isn’t new. Car makers have done this before. It’s a marketing gimmick.
Posted by GumboPot
Member since Mar 2009
138911 posts
Posted on 4/3/25 at 8:59 am to
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Wait for it, the days of dealers gouging consumers with stupid 'market adjustment' stickers adding $5k to $20k to the cost of a car is over. Dealers are going to be offering price concessions, extended warranties, and manufacturers offering price incentives, rebates and already seeing low interest loans of 0.9% in ads.


So back to normal before Federal Reserve printing press went burrrrrrrrrr.
Posted by Houag80
Member since Jul 2019
17699 posts
Posted on 4/3/25 at 9:00 am to
Son just dropped a new engine in the 2012 King Ranch ecoboost I sold to him in 2017. He had put 350k miles on it. Best truck I've/he's owned.

14K for new guts is a hell of alot better than 80k.

Yes, the prices for new are fricked.
This post was edited on 4/3/25 at 9:01 am
Posted by tide06
Member since Oct 2011
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Posted on 4/3/25 at 9:03 am to
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This isn’t new. Car makers have done this before. It’s a marketing gimmick.

They marked the cars up tens of thousands of dollars and are giving back a couple thousand for vehicles that likely will all need recalls due to the ridiculous cafe requirements Biden forced on everyone.

I’m not buying anything new until they show they can either produce turbo engines that don’t blow up or give me NA engines like we had pre-COVID that will last 200k miles.
Posted by KiwiHead
Auckland, NZ
Member since Jul 2014
35650 posts
Posted on 4/3/25 at 9:06 am to
It's a grasping move. Ford an GM roll this initiative out every now and then. I'm not sure you save all that much if you even half way negotiate effectively on the standard price.
Posted by FLTech
Member since Sep 2017
24763 posts
Posted on 4/3/25 at 9:08 am to
Competition is amazing! Time for American companies to step the frick up!
Posted by wareagle7298
Birmingham
Member since Dec 2013
3542 posts
Posted on 4/3/25 at 9:09 am to
Trump effect...sorry libs
Posted by wareagle7298
Birmingham
Member since Dec 2013
3542 posts
Posted on 4/3/25 at 9:11 am to
By the way, you libs can 'stick it to the man' by buying a foreign tariffed car and help donate a few thousand dollars to our Treasury. Your contributions are greatly appreciated.
Posted by VOR
Member since Apr 2009
67318 posts
Posted on 4/3/25 at 9:14 am to

Fix Or Repair Daily…
Posted by RohanGonzales
Member since Apr 2024
7935 posts
Posted on 4/3/25 at 9:14 am to
quote:

Is that really anything? Wouldn't a decent negotiator so at least as well? And, it's on inventory not subject to tariffs since they have been manufactured before this went into place.


What if the "decent negotiator" starts from the lower number?

Posted by Diego Ricardo
Alabama
Member since Dec 2020
11197 posts
Posted on 4/3/25 at 9:21 am to
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They marked the cars up tens of thousands of dollars and are giving back a couple thousand for vehicles that likely will all need recalls due to the ridiculous cafe requirements Biden forced on everyone.

I’m not buying anything new until they show they can either produce turbo engines that don’t blow up or give me NA engines like we had pre-COVID that will last 200k miles.


I'm not discounting that the cylinder reduction + turbocharger addition hasn't led to new engines with problems. For example, Toyota's new turbo-4 and turbo-6 in the Tacoma and Tundra had major problems with low mileage engine failures. However, from what I read, it was not due to the turbocharger but instead a manufacturing flaw that led to metal shavings floating around in the engine block.

Some of the problem with turbochargers is how people drive their vehicles. Naturally aspirated engines could take someone hoping in it and driving it immediately on cold start. Sure, it is not recommended but engineering made the engine block more resilient to that over time. Turbocharger failure seems correlated with lack of lubricant in the turbine. This lack of lubricant is likely due to cold oil that is not freely flowing through the engine.

The manufacturer recommendations for oil replacement may be too long these days because of the proliferation of the turbocharger. So changing oil more frequently may help with turbo failure. However, I tend to think it is less due to oil levels and more due to engine readiness for operation.

Is it bad that regulations have made appliance type vehicles finicky like a performance vehicle? Sure but I think habit changes could mitigate the problems a bit because I don't think the future is bigger engines regardless of regulations to be quite honest.
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