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It’s dropping pretty much all of its car line-up.<\/p>\n

This is clearly a market-driven decision. Americans, famously, like SUVs and trucks. But I have to wonder how much of it is a gamble on gasoline prices remaining fairly low, coupled with being a result of That Man in the White House deciding to roll back fuel economy standards. Which may also turn out to be a gamble for Ford.<\/p>\n


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\nSay goodbye to nearly all of Ford\u2019s car lineup: Sales end by 2020<\/a><\/span>
\nIt’s killing the Focus, Fiesta, Fusion, and Taurus, will focus on SUVs and trucks.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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It’s dropping pretty much all of its car line-up. This is clearly a market-driven decision. Americans, famously, like SUVs and trucks. But I have to wonder how much of it is a gamble on gasoline prices remaining fairly low, coupled with being a result of That Man in the White House deciding to roll back … Continue reading “Ford is turning into a Truck and SUV manufacturer”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,35,5,748,63,1071],"tags":[1534,1533,1535],"class_list":["post-136178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-big-business","category-cars","category-weather-and-climate-change","category-environment","category-trump","tag-cars","tag-mpg","tag-trucks"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/unnamed-4.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8082,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/05\/25\/how_to_save_the.html","url_meta":{"origin":136178,"position":0},"title":"How to save the US auto industry","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 25-May-05 9:15am","format":false,"excerpt":"Haven't we seen all this before? 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