Almightly Dollar bow and worship it, for it is your god.

You only reinforce that it is with this post of yours.

For the short term. Long term is another story.

Never said it f.cking was.

Ford's north american operation's present way of doing business has been
serving them so well. What were their 2005 loses again? Isn't their bond
rating somewhere south of 'junk' now? Before they started selling their
best product in this manner they were actually making big time profits
and had billions in the bank which allowed them to aquire other car
companies overseas. Yep, they're doing a bang up job this way, a bang up
job.

The complaint about Ford and GM is that they don't make cars people want
to buy. Ford has made one people want to buy, and Ford's response is to
purposely constrict supply. Somehow, I don't think that is going to
correct their basic business problem. But hey, you obviously know how to
run a business, and if the dealers come first, by golly they have to come
first. But I don't see how making customers go away and never come back
just to collect some big dealer preimums on a small number of cars is
going to be a net benefit to Ford's business. (or even the dealer's
business)