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Originally Posted by AdvisorGuy
Yes and no in my humble opinion. The marketing departments CONVINCED "you"(collective not you personally) that you needed a 6,000lb vehicle to drive you back n forth to work. And "you" fell for it. In it's production time, the Excursion had the highest profit margin in the business. There was no real development involved. They took an F250 and enclosed it the same way they took an F150, enclosed the bed, threw some leather at it and called it an Expedition. Can you imagine that something the size & weight of an Expedition, wearing 265/70R17 balloons called for factory tire pressure specs of 29 psi ?!?! Why ? Because when your wife drives it and it bounces all over the road, she's gonna say: Honey, it rides like a truck !! At 29psi and 10 inches of sidewall, it's gonna "float". See Honey ? It's not that bad !!
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I don't think their marketing department is that good. If it was, why is the F150 having it's sales eroded by the Japanese stuff like the Tundra? Didn't F150s use to be king of the road in their class just like the big 3 used to be? Slowly but surely the Jap stuff is edging in. The way you make it out to be, their marketing department can sell us a Yugo at S-class prices. If what you say is true, why is it they cannot influence us into buying their stuff instead of the Jap stuff?