Now how many Citations did Ford dump on an unsuspecting public? How many HT4100 cars was Lincoln selling? How many Cimarrons did Lincoln throw together? How many Chevettes or Le Mans did Ford sell? Aside from the seventh generation Thunderbird and its brethren I posted above, where are all of Ford's terrible attempts at downsizing that were unmitigated sales disasters? Where are all of Ford's diesel engines? Some of Ford's laziest (Escort, Tempo, EXP) easily matched some of GM's laziest but I can't think of anything immediately that approached GM's worsts.Īnd where were GM's high points? The GMT 400 pickups? The W Body Grand Prix coupe? Chrysler, for all of their foibles during the decade, had the Caravan and (after buying it from Renault) the Cherokee plus they at least had mastered the art of squeezing every penny they could out of their entire lineup and tied up with Mitsubishi for what they couldn't do. Click to expand.How many Tauruses did GM put out in that decade? Where was GM's Continental Mark VII, or Town Car, or FWD Continental, or ninth generation Thunderbird, or (indeed) eigth generation Thunderbird?

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