Posted by Paul Cook on November 03, 1999 at 18:58:13:
In Reply to: Re: All of the above is not quite true, BUT WHAT ABOUT! posted by CHRIS on November 02, 1999 at 16:39:44:
Please follow the correct sequence of postings. Information correcting your "Ford Bought Cummins" rumor is presented competently. I know many "senile citizens" who happily pull fifth-wheel travel trailers with Dodges. They heard this rumor and caused a rush on buying Depends diapers. Some envious local high school boys allowed to who drive only their mothers' shortbed Chevy pickups also picked up on this to taunt their mature friends who Drive Dodges. Neither group knows much about trucks. They don't know what a Ford AeroMax or 9000 is. These Fords often come with Cummins engines. Ford was looking there when they became connected with Cummins. AND EVEN IF... Grown-up businessmen do not buy into a company that is selling thousands of units of anything and stop selling them. Picture a board meeting with some executive saying, "If we cannot build a better truck, we'll screw the public and our stockholders and get the good guys anyway we can." Dodge (Chrysler) is merged with both Mercedes-Benz and Mitsubishi who have excellent diesel engines immediately available. Aaron Arnold has a factory Perkins diesel in his W-300. Dodge sold several thousand Mitsu diesel powered trucks in fleet sales in the 70's. They gave great service. When they planned to market a diesel in 1978, I ordered one. Corporate idiots selected the smaller Mitsu which did not work well and they abandoned the diesel option. Do you think Dodge would make that mistake again? .. or just roll over and die? I'm somewhere between high school and Depends. I am grown up and understand the business world. And I know what Ford trucks come with Cummins diesels so you can't scare me with your rumor mongering.