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[DaveDempsey]

Ford loose somewhere in the region of £1,000 for every car they sell.

[Tafty]

I remember a year or so ago I was studying the efficiencies of the Jaguar car plant in Halewood and a bar chart popped up showing that Fords total financial income was split approx 7% car sales and a whopping 93% Car Finance!!!! So do they really need to make that many cars when they've got their fingers in the financial market which is much more profitable!!! Makes you think

[FRE07962128]

Americans go white you tell them we pay $10 a gallon...ok, our gallons are bigger, but it still shocks them!

They turned white when it hit $4..

Indeed, I remember my American friends, during a three week visit to them in 1990, being aghast when the price then hit around the unbelievable 60 cents a gallon!  If I remember correctly at the time the UK price was about £1.70 a gallon and they coundn't believe it either!