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[1StrongBlackMan]

Last edited Sat Mar 7, 2015, 11:55 AM - Edit history (1)

You like Ford Motor company. In fact, you have never owned anything other than a Ford in your car buying history.

You, particularly, like the Ford Focus. You want Ford to sell more Ford Focuses because you believe it would be better for Ford and the entire world.

Do you go about that by talking down the Ford Escape ... a vehicle you can't stand?

[SheilaT]

1. You just might.

Especially if you think the Ford Escape is a truly terrible car.

[1StrongBlackMan]

6. What difference would that make ...you like the Ford Focus?

[SheilaT]

9. I'll repeat: I think the Escape

is a terrible car, maybe it's totally unreliable, gets crappy gas mileage, is expensive to fix, and is terribly unsafe in accidents. I shouldn't warn people away from it?

To clarify: I don't know either car at all, and have never owned a Ford in my life, but I'm simply going with your hypothetical here.

[tularetom]

2. I would if the Ford Escape was really just a Prius underneath

I would resent it that Ford was trying to fool me into thinking a Toyota was really a Ford after all my support of Ford products over the years.

[1StrongBlackMan]

5. But you don't like the Escape, you like the Focus ...

(I'll go back and edit the scenario)

You would have a point if you had said, "Ford was trying to fool Escape lovers."

[Hoppy]

3. If it looks like a duck, (old John Birch meme - before there were memes) ---

In other words, put a label on a piece of shit and it ain't a piece of shit anymore?

When I have time and if you want to know, I will tell you about the last Ford I bought. Or would you rather hear about how I voted for Bill Clinton and got NAFTA?

[Android3.14]

4. Here's a better analogy

You like Ford Motor companyand especially you like the Ford Focus.

So why is the dealership trying to sell you a used Chevy Corvair with Ford Focus scrawled in white shoe polish on the windshield?

[JoePhilly]

7. Now put that Ford Focus on the drawing board, and not on the showroom floor.

The Hillary haters don't have an alternative CAR that actually works.

They have some design ideas.

[1StrongBlackMan]

8. Good scenario extension ...

A concept car won't get many to where they want to be.