Ford to cut back on SUVs amid sales slump

Ford Motor Co. no longer expects to return to profitability by 2009 and is cutting North American production of pickups and SUVs for the rest of this year as high gas prices and the weak economy hurt sales, the ...

[wally p]

11 gal mpg what do they espect, i was born and raised in detroit it saddens me when i go home. it looks like the aftermath of war neighborhood after neighborhood of empty burnetout houses or where houses uses to been. since i left 2.5 million people have left detroit. with no work the place is awful to go home to.the american car companies are too arrogant they continue to build these big gas guzzling tanks and wonder why no one is buying them. are we really that dumb

[doc]

if ford or Gm would build a vehicle that got a true 50mpg in the city they would be selling millions of them. the days of the gas hogging pick-up's and suv's are over. get with the program and build something we can afford to buy and use.

[Ted]

Bye bye, Swollen Ugly Vehicles, Super-Unstable Vehicles!