AFBLUE

Don't bid within 100 cars of anyone else who bid before you. Trespassers will be violated.

AFBLUE

I'll bid 12345

LBJay 10300
vistablue mustang 11000
AFBLUE 12345
2 Slack 12900
CarRamRod 13200
codeman 94 13500
hiznherponies 14500
classj 14751
Wolfsburg 15750
MustangKid91 16539
tom_vilsack 18000

tom_vilsack

18000

Wolfsburg

15750

vistablue mustang

Put me down for 11000

CarRamRod

13200 ?

codeman94

....is that a promise?

13500

LBJay

10,300

V10

What are the incentives?

The Ford web site won't tell me what they are. In one place it says 3.9% financing & no rebates, in another place it says $1,500 cash back or 0% APR must finance through Ford credit and you must e-mail a dealer to confirm eligibility. And on the X-plan web site it says $2,000 cash back.

Can't make a good guess without knowing the incentives.

hiznherponies

Either, more than last month, or 14500!!!LOL

2Slack

12900

MustangKid91

16539

classj

14751

codeman94

and?

AFBLUE

The winner is vistabluemustang with his 11000

11512 mustangs sold in Aug
http://media.ford.com/article_displa...ticle_id=26662

tom_vilsack

ouch..and up here in cdn they where selling well below msrp (ford family pricing)

ford might want to push that redesign forward

Wolfsburg

Wow, I was way off. I would've thought the year-end incentives would've accounted for more sales...

V10

August Mustang sales were pathetic considering the incentives. Ford is in deep dog doo doo. The rate at which FoMoCo sales are falling is shocking and not sustainable if is to ever return to profitability and stay in business.

codeman94

I've never understood the new car business....How can companies keep selling new cars to everyone every year? If you sella car to someone...they already have one, they dont need another.

V10

Well, that's the core of the problem and why Ford, GM & Chrysler are hanging on for dear life. Worldwide there is a huge amount of extra auto manufacturing capacity which leads to too many cars being made for too few customers. And if you think the over capacity is a problem now, just wait until the Chinese ramp up their auto industry.

Given the lower cost structure that the Asian import brands have, the only chance Ford, GM & Chysler have is to make new models that customers "have to have" so they trade up to a new car that they really didn't need in the first place. Unfortunately "hot" cars only stay hot for 2 to 3 years, eg. Chrysler 300 and now the S197 Mustang. But the shorter the product cycle the higher the engineering and tooling cost are. It's a vicious cycle. Why anyone in the US would still want to be in the auto manufacturing business is beyond me.

PS. I used to be in the machine tool business, working for a company that supplied manufacturing equipment to Ford, GM & Chrysler. I'm really happy that I was smart enough to get out of that business and move on to greener pastures.