Gawd, what absolute bullshit! There's no comparison between the amerikan
crappola detroit garbage and the wonderful Japanese and German offroad
stuff. You really think ford makes a decent product on any scale? I feel for
you, guy. Have you even looked at the German and Austrian 4wd products? And, in
fact, that's what US forces are using in Europe -- not ferds, not humvees.
   There's no such thing as an amerikan made "good" vehicle. If it's designed
here and/or built here, it's pure crap. Even VW's built here are crap compared
to the German product.

On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 06:54:27PM -0500, Stan Wilder wrote:
> Each time the American Auto Industry gets one up on the foreign
> competition they don't know how to handle their success.
> It looks like Ford would realize that they could control the World Market
> in mass produced Bullet Proof vehicles with a massive vehicle like the
> Excursion.
> Wouldn't it be more wonderful to see all of those UN terrorism
> investigation teams riding around in Bullet Proof White Excursion units
> than those tinny little Toyota vehicles.
> The Excursion had great potential as a military staff car, bullet proof
> of course.
> The FBI would love them, the CIA would love them since they could haul
> great tonnage of riot equipment and they would be so heavy that a wild
> crowd of rioters couldn't roll them over.
> They sit so high that someone sitting in an adjacent car would have to
> get out and stand up to get a shot at you or just accept a ricochet.
> I'm not an avid Ford fan but they got to be better than the forever
> broken Hum-V that we're currently using as desert transportation.
> If Robert McNamira was still on a presidents staff he would move an
> Excursion production line to Texas and George Bush would insist on
> continued production.
> Look what George has done for the Osprey production ........... condemned
> the Aircraft and Re-Funded the project.
>
> Just a thought.
> Stan Wilder
>
>
> ----------------- Clip --------------------->
> > http://www.msnbc.com/news/788016.asp?0dm=T13IB
> >
> >
> > quote:
> >
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> -------
> > The Ford Motor Co. has decided not to build a second
> > generation of the Excursion sport utility vehicle, the
> > New York Times reported Wednesday, citing people close
> > to Ford s future product program.
> >
> > THE EXCURSION, seven feet tall and able to seat a
> > softball team, was oft criticized as the auto
> > industry s most visible symbol of sport utility
> > vehicle excess, the paper said, and is expected to be
> > discontinued at the end of the 2004 model year.
> >
> > Introduced in 1999 as a 2000 year model, the end of
> > production will mean the Excursion lasted just one
> > generation.
> >
> > Sarah Tatchio, a spokeswoman for Ford, declined to
> > confirm to the Times whether the company would drop
> > the 19-foot vehicle, which gets 10 miles a gallon, is
> > too long to fit in many garages and takes up two
> > conventional city parking spaces.
> >
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> -------
> >
> > BAHAHAHAHAHAHAH! MWHAHAHAHA! YES!!! THANK YOU FORD!!!
> > could it be that someone at ford actually had a moment
> > of lucid, logical thought?
> >
> > wow.
> >
> >
> > (every body cheer with me)
> >
> > DEAD! DEAD! DEAD! DEAD! DEAD! DEAD! YES!!
> > DEAD! DEAD! DEAD! DEAD! DEAD! DEAD! YES!!
> > DEAD! DEAD! DEAD! DEAD! DEAD! DEAD! YES!!
> > DEAD! DEAD! DEAD! DEAD! DEAD! DEAD! YES!!
> > DEAD! DEAD! DEAD! DEAD! DEAD! DEAD! YES!!
> > DEAD! DEAD! DEAD! DEAD! DEAD! DEAD! YES!!
> > DEAD! DEAD! DEAD! DEAD! DEAD! DEAD! YES!!
> > DEAD! DEAD! DEAD! DEAD! DEAD! DEAD! YES!!
> > DEAD! DEAD! DEAD! DEAD! DEAD! DEAD! YES!!
> > DEAD! DEAD! DEAD! DEAD! DEAD! DEAD! YES!!
> >
> >
> >
> > *big smile*
> >
> > FORD: Excursion offers an impressive 165 cubic feet of
> > available cargo space. That's about eight times the
> > trunk volume of a full-size passenger car.
> >
> > TRANSLATION: Some other things you might be able to
> > relate this to:
> > *About the size of your first apartment after college
> > *Could hold 10 cubicles, and a water cooler
> > *Enough room for optional lap pool
> >
> > I really hate all the SUVs there
> >
> > Now I'll just have to figure out how to decomission
> > all the existing ones on the road...
> >
> > i repeat
> >
> >
> > I really hate all the SUVs there
> >
> > Now I'll just have to figure out how to decomission
> > all the existing ones on the road...
> >
> > and again
> >
> > I really hate all the SUVs there
> >
> > Now I'll just have to figure out how to decomission
> > all the existing ones on the road...
> >
> > once more for good measure.
> >
> > this calls for a celebration of some sort :)
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > =====
> > "Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be
> > happy. "
> > - H. L. Mencken
> > "Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls
> > to live in the real world."
> > -Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden
> > More Quotation fun @ http://nerddom.8m.com/quotes.html
> >
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