There’s plenty of reasons why financing a car is a good idea. But there’s a big difference between financing a 2015 civic so you have a car to drive yourself to work vs a 2025 ford raptor with all the features. Financing should be a value question, will the new car enable sufficient benefit to offset the cost of the debt?

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Consumer spending is drying up. How you conflate that with the reality you want to live in is irrelevant. Ford had the power to put every American in a car, and for that matter, every human being alive. The percent of American families who owned a car in 1929 hit 60%. 1950s? 75%. 2000s ~80%. Dropping now. Too much supply, too little demand. You can only prop up an economy so long on pay later air fare. Or houses for free. Or buying on margin.

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Jensen buys leather jackets from Tom Ford

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The loophole must be EV specific then. Ford/Toyota can’t just run dealerships first party. The middleman of a 3rd party dealership is law, and I’d like to see it gone, but America is a country of middlemen.

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Just put the light pickups in the bag. Give me my old ford ranger!

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“Shares of traditional auto makers rose on Wednesday, boosted by more potential policy changes that favor gasoline- powered cars over their all-electric peers.” Ford Motor up 1% meanwhile Tesla up 4%— clown market

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Tsla should buy Ford, make hybrid motors

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CEO of ford, stellantis giving trump fellatio on live television in the Oval Office.

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I just want a 97 ford ranger sized pickup, man.

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Ford CEO now toddling to the WH because sales are low. Jensen’s also going today, wonder if Microsoft and Amazon will try for gov stakes tomorrow

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