My opinion: Ford is having "Growing Pains" A few years ago Ford was a smaller company than GM and maybe Chrysler, but if you considder in the past 5 years for aquired Volvo (car division), Jaguar, Aston Martin and Land Rover, plus they introduced new car line basicly built from scrap the multi billion dollar Contour/Mondeo program, the Focus, and redesigned their entire fleet. The company grew too fast for it's self, They just got a lot of new technology on their hands and once they catch up with themselvs I think we may all be suprised at the result. I HOPE
But who knows, ford may also turn into the "poster child" of big business gone bad