📰 Auto News Ford wishes GM a happy 100th birthday.

[EmersonHart13]

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Credit Ford with a classy move yesterday when it strategically left the blinds open in certain offices at its World Headquarters in Dearborn. The effect was a building-sized birthday card congratulating its cross-town competitor, General Motors, on making it 100 years in the automotive business. Ford celebrated its centennial a few years back, so knows how much fun the big 1-0-0 can be. And though they're technically competitors in this grueling business, both Ford and GM often find themselves in the same boat when it comes to battling imports for market share, appealing to the federal government for loans and generally doing their best not to make Detroit an embarrassment. Did you know that GM almost bought Ford back in the day? The man responsible for making GM what it is today, Billy Durant, made Henry Ford an offer of $8 million to buy his six-year-old car company on October 5, 1909... and Ford accepted. Unfortunately, Ford demanded $2 million up front, preferably in gold, and Durant couldn't get the loan approved by New York banks. The two automakers' paths verged from there, but obviously never completely separated.

http://www.autoblog.com/2008/09/16/ford-wishes-gm-a-happy-100th-birthday/

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[EmersonHart13]

Gracias!

 

[Poopshinanigans]

Thats nice, now they will merge to make one super company!!!!! And all the ford and GM nutters can love each other. There will be no more wars.

 

[Freddy]

aw isn't that cute?

 

[skeezer]

lol

 

[Chrisco]

Thats nice, now they will merge to make one super company!!!!! And all the ford and GM nutters can love each other. There will be no more wars.

I'm pretty sure there'd be a second civil war, and Chrysler would take the roll of France.

 

[Poopshinanigans]

I'm pretty sure there'd be a second civil war, and Chrysler would take the roll of France.

What have someone bail them out and then make all the rules when the shit is over? Likein WWII?

 

[Chrisco]

What have someone bail them out and then make all the rules when the shit is over? Likein WWII?

Are you not familiar with the civil war?

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shit, apparently I'm not either lol. Was thinking of the revolutionary war. My analogy no longer works My B!

 

[Poopshinanigans]

Are you not familiar with the civil war?

*edit*

shit, apparently I'm not either lol. Was thinking of the revolutionary war. My analogy no longer works My B!

Its alright, if it was the revolutionary war they'd come really late to help one side(whoever you want the US to be). Though i don't think they'd make big difference like the french did.

 

[Yaj Yak]

forget the french and chrysler.

:wink:

 

[NetChemica]

Thats nice, now they will merge to make one super company!!!!! And all the ford and GM nutters can love each other. There will be no more wars.

That's a great fucking idea.

The brilliant engineering from the Ford side along with the blind sackriding from the GM side... they would be unstoppable!

 

[bikrboy128]

The brilliant engineering from the Ford side along with the blind sackriding from the GM side... they would be unstoppable!

that's a funny joke.

 

[Burtonrider10022]

That's a great fucking idea.

The brilliant engineering from the Ford side along with the blind sackriding from the GM side... they would be unstoppable!

this from the guy who always gets pissy when 'other people' start ford vs gm shit....

 

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GM's building says :madfawk:

J/K J/K

 

[Poopshinanigans]

I hate ford, fucking terrible cars.

 

[Burtonrider10022]

especially the old ones

 

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Fords are ok, they did make the SHO which is one bad ass car imo (pre v8 version).

 

[Burtonrider10022]

has its ups and downs.

like every company

 

[Poopshinanigans]

SVOs are terrible. That went into SVTs being terrible. Anything made in the 80s = terrible.

 

[Poopshinanigans]

Also cars named after horses.

 

[Burtonrider10022]

and cars with lotsa letters after thier names... like acronyms

 

[RebelGTP]

and cars painted Estrogen Blue...

 

[Burtonrider10022]

winnaaarrr