Ford responds to the 'Cash for Clunkers' program

Ford's GVP for Marketing and Communications, Jim Farley, talks about the new Cash for Clunkers program that passed in the US Senate. Under the program, Ford has over 20 new models that qualify including Fusion, Escape, F-series, Flex, MKT, Taurus, and Transit Connect. Visit www.ford.com for more details on the Cash for Clunkers incentive plan and details on the Ford vehicles that qualify.

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Autos & Vehicles

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• Ford
• cash for clunkers
• 2010
• Taurus
• SHO
• Taurus SHO
• Fusion
• Escape
• Flex
• F-series
• F-150
• MKT
• Transit Connect
• fuel efficient
• Jim Farley
• US senate
• government incentive

[itrainsinoctober]

What a joke. Many people are in debt up to their eyeballs and the president is encouraging people to buy NEW cars, most of which will be financed by a LOAN. Great idea, destroy cars that run perfectly fine and take on more debt.

[DanielJaegerFilms]

BIG MISTAKE FORD!

[Roushfan5]

1. Name me one car that is fireproof

2. What money is Ford spendng

3. Ford is not responceabnle for cash for clunkers. What do you expect them to do, turn down hunderes of thousands of extra sales. At the end of the day they are still a company.

4. Today, Ford is equal to Toyota, Honda and Nissan now. Look it up.

[flip3d]

They have great cars now?

Pinto was 40 years ago.

[daveyco]

Yeah, blowing up engines (causing smoke and oil leakage) and scrapping perfectly good cars is GREAT for the environment. Hey Ford, why dont you spend your energy designing fireproof Pintos

[slowmotion4x4]

I think it is sad that any dealers are greedy enough to even thing of participating in this program.

[Holtlaxhomie]

The environment talk is such b.s. This will not affect it at all. Think about the 20,000+ vehicles and what they average in their mpg, and then figure their new car mpg. The change will be maybe 2 mpg? WIth how many vehicles in the world we would never see any difference. Sorry liberal Al Gore lovers :(

[SeEsAw121221]

that's the idea. It's pretty amazing how they're doing it so fast and efficiently..

kinda scary!

[jamie1974]

Yeah this is really a sad program. Perfectly good cars are being destroyed that people who cannot afford newer cars will no longer have available to them. So many good vehicles going to complete waste. What a joke.

[mistersandman2u]

This broken a__ lame program is supported on the backs of hard working tax payers.......Wake Up People This Is An OBAMANATION!!!!!!!

[R34RACR]

You're destroying cars that run perfectly fine, and building new cars. Hopefully by now you've realized that saving an older car saved energy and resources. In fact, a lot of older cars are MORE fuel efficient than the new "eco friendly" cars.

I'm glad the feds halted it.