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Introduction – Ford stops making cars
Ford stopped manufacturing cars and reduced its range of vehicles to just two models due to a lack of demand and consumer interest.
These days, Ford has found buyers buying more Ford Escape and Ford Explorer SUVs, as well as Ford F-150 trucks.
With fewer sedans being sold, Ford decided to invest more in fuel-efficient electric vehicles and SUVs.
And in the future, you can navigate the streets of New Jersey from the driver’s seat of the electric or hybrid Ford of your choice.
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Ford plans to add hybrid-electric propulsion options to models such as the Ford Bronco, Escape, Explorer, Mustang, and F-150 in the upcoming year.
There will also be 16 batteries electric Ford vehicles for the deal by 2022.
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Why did Ford stop selling sedans?
- In 2018, Ford announced that it would stop making and selling passenger cars in the United States.
- At the time, Ford said it would stop doing this and favor its money makers: trucks, SUVs, and crossovers.
- In 2020, Ford said 90% of its North American sales would be larger vehicles offering lower fuel consumption.
- Following Ford’s announcement that it would no longer sell sedans in the United States.
- The automaker has suspended popular passenger models such as the Fiesta, Fusion, and Ford Taurus.
- Today, barely a sedan anymore, the Mustang is the only sedan vehicle left in the Ford range.
- When Ford first broke the news in 2018, the automaker said the decision boiled down to numbers.
- Former Ford CEO Jim Hackett told analysts during a call that Ford “will nurture the healthy parts of our business.
- And it will be determined with the parts that destroy value.”
Ford decided to invest in a growing segment
- The President of Ford North America and VP of Ford Motor Company shared with Ford.
- Authority executive editor Alex Luft that “the sedan segment itself.
- And In decline for a very long time, that has been accelerating over the last few years.”
- Galhotra continued, “Our industry is very resource-intensive – we have to create a particular product, and the factory to build it, and all the tooling and our suppliers – that can run into billions of dollars.
- The query then became, in that environment, of a finite amount of capital, were to finance that investment.
- Do we want to finance it in a declining segment, or do we like to support it in a growing part?”
- With that, Ford decided to invest in its lineup of trucks and SUVs. Galhotra told Ford Authority, “So decided to invest in a growing segment.
- The Bronco, like the Mach-E, like Bronco Sport, so we have a lot more product coming that will more than offset the loss of sedans.”
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When will Ford stop making most-of its cars?
- Ford will kill Fusion, Taurus, and Fiesta cars.
- Fiesta and Taurus could disappear from the list as early as next year.
- The newly launched version of the Fusion, which plays in the mid-range segment was the most popular in the industry until the SUV craze.
- It is expected to be around for a few more years.
- The announcement came when Ford posted profits of $ 1.7 billion in the first quarter, up 9% over the same period last year.
- In the first quarter, automaker Dearborn earned 43 cents a share, beating Wall Street analysts’ average expectations by 2 cents a share.
- Ford’s worldwide sales rose 7% to $ 42 billion for the quarter.
- The 9% increase in quarterly earnings was almost entirely due to a decrease in the automaker’s effective tax rate from 28.6% to 9%, Ford officials said.
- The automaker’s pre-tax profit declined 14% to $ 2.2 billion for the quarter.
Ford Brazil Plants to Shut
- Earlier last week, Ford Motor Co also revealed that it would cease production in Brazil, closing three plants and engine sales of the EcoSport.
- Production has ceased at the Camaçari and Taubaté engine plants in Brazil.
- And the company’s Troller plant in Horizonte, Brazil, will continue to operate until the fourth quarter of 2021.
- Once you sell the inventories, sales of the EcoSort, Ka, and Troller T4 will end, and this plant closure will affect around 5,000 persons.
- Semiconductor, container, and steel shortage is also likely to impact the entire auto sector and industry sources state.
- About 1/5th of production is expected to hit Q1 2021.
- In the mean-time, the semiconductor market is set to boom to around $129 billion in 2025, tripling its size compared to 2019.
- Major players in this segment include STMicroelectronics, Infineon Technologies, NXP Semiconductor, Texas Instruments, and Toshiba.