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Originally Posted by madmax
What makes you think Ford can adapt?
It looks to me like the auto industry does everything they can not to adapt. The Model T actually gets better mileage than many cars on the road today.
When I think of the Ford boardroom, I picture a bunch of 80 year old guys sitting around waiting for gas prices to drop.
Boeing is in a different position than Ford. Boeing has a virtual monopoly and their only competition is Airbus. Boeing's problem was in production not sales. They could not meet demand. Boeing needed to streamline production and cutout some of the BS custom options and get rid of Stonecipher. They were offering over 100 different shades of white paint.
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Autoweek had a story covering some of this awhile ago; I may have posted it within another thread-just found it:
http://www.autoweek.com/apps/pbcs.dl...023/LATESTNEWS
Very big difference on what was required and asked for in a vehicle then and now. The above story covers only the past 10-20 years.