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Old 08-03-2008, 04:36 PM   #101 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by trikkonceptz View Post
Like all other businesses, there is no money in small cars. I work for a Ford Dealership and I see the margins everyday. There is less than $1000 profit in a focus that is sold at full sticker. With numbers like that or until that changes there will be no motivation to sell compacts.
No money in small cars? Haven't we been here before? Or are you in some parallel universe, where Ford & GM are posting decent profits, while Honda & Toyota are flirting with bankruptcy?

Maybe you need to revisit your premise. Could it be that in fact there's not a lot of money in the low end of the automotive price scale? So that if Ford goes on thinking small car = cheap car, they won't find the profit that is to be made in small cars, and the Japanese & Koreans will keep taking it.

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