Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 18:54:27 -0500
Reply-To: Stan Wilder <wilden1@JUNO.COM>
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From: Stan Wilder <wilden1@JUNO.COM>
Subject: Re: Ford Excursion is DEAD ?
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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
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> http://www.msnbc.com/news/788016.asp?0dm=T13IB
>
>
> quote:
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> 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.
>
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>
> 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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