Ford has left Japan
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Ford (the entire brand) has officially left the Japanese market. Now Japan can know how it feels to not get things.
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2016/01/25/ford-blames-market-conditions-pulls-out-of-japan-indonesia_n_9068284.html
>>14422972
BTFO
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ONLY WAY IS TO PARLAY
WHAT DO YOU SAY JAPAN
YOU ONLY GET FORD IF YOU EXPORT
>>14422972
>japan wont get ford
>japan wont get rebadged mazda tech
Kek.
Toyota respect Ford's decision and will honorably leave the US market.
oh no. those 12 ford owners will be horrified.
lucky Japan has good import laws. So people that want fords can still get them from Australia.
You realize that the only products Ford makes that are worth owning (Mustang, F150) aren't really that common in Japan? They are losing out on unreliable econo-shitboxes.
And this is Japan.
They have an endless supply of RELIABLE, econoboxes to drive around.
Literally nothing of value was lost at all. Anyone who still wants a Mustang will just import one, if they can afford the emissions taxes they can afford to import one.
>>14422984
Nothing of value was lost.
Honda is basically the same as Toyota now anyway.
>>14422993
if they import a mustang they'll get the awesome USDM LHD too
>>14422984
AMERICA ON SUICIDE WATCH
>>14422991
Australian ford is best ford
>>14422996
>Honda is basically the same as Toyota now anyway.
>doesn't make any SUVs worth owning
>doesn't make any trucks worth owning
>doesn't even make a fucking VEE-ATE
Honda is still babby-tier, they aren't even close to touching the godliness of Toyota.
Toyota literally does everything every other major automaker does, only better.
Posting the last RWD Ford Falcon before they all become FWD
>>14423026
>Australia's gonna get Fusions rebadged as Falcon's
Justice
>>14423026
Why are so many automakers switching to cuckwheel drive for their cars? Just cheaper?
based BMW, they might not make reliable cars but at least they maintain tradition
>>14423038
Kek """""based""""" BMW is gonna make FWD as well, and they're going to be just the same as they are currently, unreliable junk
>>14423038
Its 2016 anon 1 series are becoming fwd
>>14423038
I havr bad news for you, anon.
ITT Americans trying to claim victory for pulling put of a market they had almost zero profit in.
Haha, Americans just can't export. I don't even get how fucking retarded they are. They have to buy other brands to get anywhere and even then they somehow mangle that up.
Americans return to comfort sphere because they can't handle the jandle more at 11
>>14423017
No longer true. They have no supercar, and their sports car isn't as good as the MX-5 or as successful as the FiST.
>>14423076
And Australians can't keep a car company profitable, this and sports at 10
>>14423057
>>14423053
I know they've always made some FWD shitboxes like the 1 and 2, but even the most basic, entry level 3 series is still RWD.
Do you think they'll eventually give in to the cuckening and make the 3, 5, and 7 series FWD turdmobiles?
>yfw FWD M5
>>14422984
I fucking hope so, Toyota drivers are the shittiest people on the road next to subarudykes
>>14423081
Fiesta ST is an unreliable little shitbox that devours its own clutch, literally nothing worth mentioning about that fucking trash heap of a car.
The MX-5 is an underpowered convertible for senior citizens, and it handles no better than a base model Mazda3.
Your post contributes very little to this discussion.
>>14423095
you anti fwd people are so autistic
>>14423097
>I fucking hope not, because really Hyundai drivers are the shittiest people on the road next to subarudykes
ftfy
>>14423097
thats not hyundai and bmw
>Ford has left Japan
>nothing, NOTHING! changes
>>14423106
Its not that fwd is bad its more bmw losing their values i guess
>>14423012
Was. Without the Barra straight six Ausford is nothing.
Holden can fuck off too for rebadging the Cruze instead of making that Torana reboot.
>>14422984
nice try, bob lutz
>>14423107
>>14423110
I rarely see Hyundai drivers around but they are shitty but rare. But I BMW will indeed give a run for their money as very douchebag drivers.
Have yet to see one BMW driver that wasn't a complete douche.
>>14423127
Well youre not wrong and i dont think theyre going to bring back the sunbird it was kill along with kingswood to make way for their reboot of opels commodore and i honestly hope they dont because theyll fuck it up like everything else car companies have recently
>>14423106
It's more a matter of heritage. The selling points of a BMW were the godly inline 6 engines and rear wheel drive. Now it's just the badge as the Bavarians cave into emissions cuckery.
>>14423084
Oh? Right because gm/ford taking it up the ass and proceeding to "one ford" back into the cheezeburger sphere has anything to do with ford au or ford EU.
Both ford au and ford EU were still profitable, even when you crybabies needed a government bailout because you got ruthlessly destroyed by the japs in your home market.
Ford amerca has never understood any market other than burger and fries. Itvwas painfully obvious when you looked at the press releases areound the bailout
>>14423127
Gm AU's was killed off a while ago, its just a shell company now rebadging american cars.
Did you miss all the hubub about that? It was like... 2014
>>14423084
>jandle
>Australian
Mate. Learn to spot you shitposters better, they're thongs here you dumbcunt
>>14423017
Most v8s are still shit so its not like it means anything.
>>14423102
>comparing a mazda to another mazda
Why, mazdas have always had better steering than most of their competition, whats your point?
>>14423220
>Commodore
>A rebadged Chevy
Look I know a lot of the parts are from the GM parts bin, but try a little harder.
>>14423017
Lol o i can sell you a v8. An 8 pack of hamburgers
>>14423331
I'm talking about now. Not 3 years ago dipshit.
>>14422972
Shame. I figured the Focus ST and Fiesta ST would sell like mad over there with young car enthusiasts
>>14423345
They're still building Commodores, dipshit.
Production ends next year.
>>14423202
Ford never took a bailout in America ya fuckwit
From Autocar:
>Our friends in Japan tell us that Ford is not a popular brand for general drivers in the same way that it is in Europe.It is felt that Ford made a persistent strategic blunder when it came to its Japanese sales strategy: ahigh performance image is the first thing that comes to Japanese drivers when they think of imported cars but Ford kept on introducing general-purpose models. Thatmeant that Ford failed to find the same kind of favour in Japan as some rivals.Renaultin Japan, for example, has elevated its brand value because it introduced severalRenaultsportmodels.
Seems like Ford made a mistake should have just sold high perfomance cars instead.
Also:
>reported by Reuters to have sold fewer than 5000 cars in 2015
>>14423407
>only offering shit tier mobiles
Good, fuck them.
Ford did the same shit when they introduced the Mustang in Europe. They only brought the 4-cylinder model.
>>14423477
Jesus Christ how can you be this stupid
http://www.carscoops.com/2015/05/europe-this-is-your-2015-ford-mustang.html?m=1
Japanese domestic car industry is dead and even Toyota is burning money
The people are regressing back to the period of post WW2
>>14423097
you're probably referring to all the single Guatemalan moms talking on their phone while driving a camry or a rolla. those are the people I hate on the road.
>>14423097
t. hyundai driver
>>14422984
As if.
Fiesta ST, Focus ST and Mustang
That holy trinity, Ford, is all you would have needed.
Maybe with an imported aussie ute and falcon to go with it.
Contrary to popular belief, there is a pretty fair sized group in Japan that loves old murrican muscle, GTOs and Mustangs have cult popularity there. There's even some japs that like the big Chevy suburbans.
So how do the americans reach out to Japan?
>Hot hatches to appeal to the Civic and AE86 fags
>V8 pony cars to appeal to the musclefags
>falcon to appeal to people that like muscle and comfort (not a huge market in Japan but it could do well against BMW imports)
>ute to appeal to the wierder people who have a fetish for V8 truck type vehicles
And that is how Ford of Japan could become a respectable import brand
>>14423102
>Fiesta ST is an unreliable little shitbox that devours its own clutch, literally nothing worth mentioning about that fucking trash heap of a car.
Where the fuck is this meme even coming from? There are only a few reports of it happening, always to very early cars, and Ford replaced them all under warranty. I've had my FiST for 2 years and 35,000 miles and the only issues I've had have been brake pad wear and the SYNC system deciding not to take voice commands for a week once.
>>14424166
do you have any idea how retarded you look
>I know how Japan works
>I know what Japanese drivers like
>I'm smart
kill yourself
>>14424166
>Hot hatches to appeal to the Civic and AE86 fags
japan is home of hot hatches and ford already had offerings in the market
>V8 pony cars to appeal to the musclefags
if anyone wants a v8 in japan they import it. having them sold domestically through a dealer network is far from financially viable and would only send ford backwards with all the changes that need to be made
>falcon to appeal to people that like muscle and comfort (not a huge market in Japan but it could do well against BMW imports)
>ute to appeal to the wierder people who have a fetish for V8 truck type vehicles
again, the people that want them import them.
you really should stop pretending to be a supreme international business man from your behind your cheeto covered keyboard
>>14422972
Wow.
I had no idea, but now that I think about it it makes some sense. They just don't buy big cars over there and certainly no "trucks".
Sports cars like the V8 Mustang though are another story. Japanese manufacturers can't compete with that but sales of those aren't enough to carry the whole manufacturer in those countries. Wow...
>>14422972
We sold cars to them? Huh, I never knew that (besides that picture - I didn't think we had anything going on since). What a terrible idea in the first place.
>>14422984
>As if Toyota has made anything cool in years
I'm OK with that.
>>14423102
>I've never driven a car in my life
>>14423076
Isn't Ford one of the most popular brands in the UK?
>>14425025
>japan is home of hot hatches and ford already had offerings in the market
nothing that actually compares to the fiesta st though. its the most japanese small car ford sells
that and they don't sell any ST/RSs in Japan unless imported from UK/AUS market
>>14423148
>Kingswood and Torana were the last good australian built and designed cars
>that was 45 years ago now
>>14423097
>I fucking hope so, Toyota drivers are the shittiest people on the road next to subarudykes
I don't really know how this kind of thing works, but my understanding is that that the drivers would stay here.
>>14425008
>I know what Japanese drivers like
more like
>I know what the Japanese taxman allows
>>14422984
Wtf man? This ain't some world war and shit.
Good, Japanese cars will explode in quality in the next 10-20 years, raking in most of the money from Japan and a shit load from the US still
>>14423081
>no super car>>14423081
>what Is a Toyota supra
Who cares if Ford left Japan. Japan has Honda, Toyota, Mazda, Mitsubishi, and Dihatsu. They don't need Ford. Anything Ford releases over there will already be covered by their existing companies that make everything that fits best within their market.
The only thing that Ford fits into is that very small niche of people that like the big American V8-powered performance car and the roomy and comfortable luxobarge, and if they really want one they can import one.
Ford works best here where the taxman doesn't have stupidly strict displacement and size taxes, much like how Dihatsu works best in places where the taxman runs wild.
>>14426953
>supra
>supercar
weebintensifies.jpg
>>14426022
>What a terrible idea in the first place.
Why? It's probably one of the biggest markets for cars in the world.
>>14422972
and nothing value was lost to them
>>14427840
Because of taxes on big cars and displacement size and shit
>>14423038
>cheaper to produce
>More cabin space
>easier to handle
>Less can go wrong
It just is better for customer and producer.
Japan is dominated by these faggy small ass kei cars. Ford doesn't make any of them.
>>14423038
Hyundai is going to be the only fully RWD brand of cars in the Genesis.
>>14428945
Hyundai has also been making big V8 rwd luxury sedans for years.
>yfw murrica got out-murrica'd by gooks
>>14423095
>I know they've always made some FWD shitboxes like the 1 and 2
What the fuck are you talking about faggot?
>>14422972
That car looks sad.
>>14422984
>scion is shut down
wew
