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[Adam in NYC USA]

Then I revise my statement...

Use readily available parts whenever possible and that are generated locally.

My opinions and statements are not for a global market. It is for a NAS designed Ford "Rover" that can be made without undergoing the 18 month to 4 year product cycle from concept to final production model.

Use that inventory that was produced prior, and use that. If you have to use a Mustang engine and get an Allison tranny, fine.

But remember the goal of these posts are two-fold: the company has been in bad spots before and can recover. Ford has a financial plan and getting rid of all the one-shot debts was a smart idea. Secondly, people who bought Ford in the past still want to buy a Ford (INSERT LAND ROVER instead of Ford and you will mean what I say. Nonetheless, I have to speak in Fordspeak.)

I am an union man. Those statements are typical of one uninformed of company/union interactions.

Ford could have been truly efficient and do what the airlines done: abandon their prior commitments to hard-earned negotiated settlements such as the agreement of the pension systems. The stockholders would have been happy with the purging of the pension systems but then there would have been a mass curfixion at the next stockholders meeting by the angry auto workers.

However, Ford knows they have the best of the industry in union labor, and decided to give whats due.

I will not continue this tangent further because I believe there are sufficient readers of this website and forum to make such a auto model a reality.

Land Rover needs to go back to its roots. So does Ford. Make cars not only for North America but for the world. If you wont do a Defender fine, but there is a market for a light truck and the LR2/Freelander isn't it. Go back to the beginning.