Ford pushes Obama-style "Agents of Change" for Euro Micro

[WhiteHatBobby]

Ford is planning 100 people around the world to be Obama-style "Agents of Change" to promote the new European microcar they plan to sell around the world.

The European microcars will be imported to the US and be their key car in order to comply with the Obamabots' mandate of microcars.

http://automotive.speedtv.com/article/autos-young-agents-tapped-for-new-fiesta/

[PeterGriffin]

"Change Agent" is attributed to Obama now? LOL. Must sound scary to some I guess.

http://www.isixsigma.com/dictionary/Change_Agent-393.htm

Yeah, that's about the time I first heard it. Corporate gobbledeygook, but it's cute how you cram some Obama in there when there is no connection.

http://www.fiestamovement.com/

Scary, trying to promote and sell cars!

[gdoane]

I don't think kids should be driving small cars for the simple reason that they don't have experience driving cars and my F-150 would smoosh them flat when they make a mistake in front of me.

If I had a kid (and thank GOD I don't) I'd be putting that kid in the biggest, baddest, most bulletproof beater I could find. I'm talking something like a 1974 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme. That car could survive pretty much anything this side of a nuclear strike and not need airbags to do it.

If you're going to put inexperienced drivers on the road (and you have to or else you'd never have experienced drivers) then at least give them some decent armor.

I don't think I'd even feel backing over one of those silly "Smart Cars". My luck, I'll see a video of a brown F-150 backing over a "Smart Car" on the news and then go "THAT'S what that sound was when I backed out! Dang, I ran over a CAR??"

Wimpy vehicles and inexperienced drivers are bad ju-ju. Inexperienced drivers should be in forgiving vehicles. Putting them in shoebox eurotrash econoboxes is a good way to get them killed.

[WhiteHatBobby]

Shoebox econoboxes are the only type of cars that will be legal under the Era of Obama and their "energy independence" mandates. Their goal is to drive US automakers out of business by forcing everyone into those types of cars, henceforth the new energy standards imposed by the Pelosi Administration two years ago.

[Claymore]

I don't think kids should be driving small cars for the simple reason that they don't have experience driving cars and my F-150 would smoosh them flat when they make a mistake in front of me.

If I had a kid (and thank GOD I don't) I'd be putting that kid in the biggest, baddest, most bulletproof beater I could find. I'm talking something like a 1974 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme. That car could survive pretty much anything this side of a nuclear strike and not need airbags to do it.

If you're going to put inexperienced drivers on the road (and you have to or else you'd never have experienced drivers) then at least give them some decent armor.

I don't think I'd even feel backing over one of those silly "Smart Cars". My luck, I'll see a video of a brown F-150 backing over a "Smart Car" on the news and then go "THAT'S what that sound was when I backed out! Dang, I ran over a CAR??"

Wimpy vehicles and inexperienced drivers are bad ju-ju. Inexperienced drivers should be in forgiving vehicles. Putting them in shoebox eurotrash econoboxes is a good way to get them killed.

In high school I drove a '51 Mercury sedan that was built like a friggin' tank and could do 75mph only when going down a steep hill with a stiff wind on it's back. A very safe car, except one girl's dad wouldn't let her date me because the back seat was so big and roomy.

[WhiteHatBobby]

Sad thing is Obama is using energy policy to drive big cars off the market. GM already has a 2010 model year (Spark, 2011 US) car they released in Geneve this weekend that will be sold worldwide to meet the European microcar demand and in the US to meet the Obammy's mandate. (40 MPG)

Ford we know has the new Fiesta that's coming to meet the Obammy's call of microcars only.

Big and safe cars are the only way to go, IMO. And as higher-maintenance engines become the trend, watch for the newer engines to call for timing belt changes every 25,000 miles. The belt, cogs, and rest of the mechanism would have to be changed, so we're talking nearly $1,000 of timing equipment to be changed each year. But it feels better than manufacturers who don't use them, so we'll pay the extra money to buy cars with bad engines. I'll take a pass on that. Dad taught me the lesson when we had a bad timing belt break a car on the way to Atlanta for a computer reseller's meeting nearly 20 years ago.

[PeterGriffin]

The Fiesta is not a "microcar". Unless you've got a "megagut".

[PeterGriffin]

Sad thing is Obama is using energy policy to drive big cars off the market. GM already has a 2010 model year (Spark, 2011 US) car they released in Geneve this weekend that will be sold worldwide to meet the European microcar demand and in the US to meet the Obammy's mandate. (40 MPG)

Ford we know has the new Fiesta that's coming to meet the Obammy's call of microcars only.

Big and safe cars are the only way to go, IMO. And as higher-maintenance engines become the trend, watch for the newer engines to call for timing belt changes every 25,000 miles. The belt, cogs, and rest of the mechanism would have to be changed, so we're talking nearly $1,000 of timing equipment to be changed each year. But it feels better than manufacturers who don't use them, so we'll pay the extra money to buy cars with bad engines. I'll take a pass on that. Dad taught me the lesson when we had a bad timing belt break a car on the way to Atlanta for a computer reseller's meeting nearly 20 years ago.

I don't really know that for all your information on the auto industry that your opinions on the auto industry are worthwhile. IIRC, you think the pushrod SBC is still the zenith of automotive engineering.

Hey look, I'd love it to be 1970 and we're all driving around in 400 HP pony cars with horrible build quality and the knobs coming off the dash in our hands, but reality is a mutha.