Expedition EL vs Suburban No chevy or ford bashing please.

   / Expedition EL vs Suburban No chevy or ford bashing please. #31  
Our police dept just got a fleet of F-150 Eco Boost trucks. The fire dept runs Expeditions and some SuperDutys. Heck, the detectives for both the police and fire run around in Camery Hybrids..

As for police cars the Crown Vic rules the roost but the Dodge Charger is also making a strong showing.

Chris

I'm seeing more Chargers around here too, mainly due to motors and size I guess...Not many Vics left....One local police department took on an H3...If I need to run from one, that'd be it.:D
 
   / Expedition EL vs Suburban No chevy or ford bashing please. #32  
Not many Vics left....[/QUOTE]

Ford quit making the vic. No one was buying them anymore and there wasn't enough profit selling to police agencies alone.
 
   / Expedition EL vs Suburban No chevy or ford bashing please. #33  
Not many Vics left....

Ford quit making the vic. No one was buying them anymore and there wasn't enough profit selling to police agencies alone.[/QUOTE]

Our local police dept took deliver of tons of them just a few months back. They bought up all they could before production ceased.

Here is the wave of the future. Built in my home town and I now live about 35 miles from the factory.

Police Car for Police | Carbon Motors Corporation

Chris
 
   / Expedition EL vs Suburban No chevy or ford bashing please. #34  
This is how I feel also. If you put people to work that is all that matters.

Chris

When you purchase a foreign vehicle the profits of the sale leave our country and go to the foreign company. These transactions are doing nothing more that shipping America's wealth off shore.

I live in Detroit and work in automotive. I know most of you guys never see headlines like this:
"GM to Invest $2 Billion in U.S. Plants, Adding 4,000 Jobs" (http://media.gm.com/content/media/u...ontent/Pages/news/us/en/2011/May/0510_bigbang)
simply because you don't live here.

Look at this one:
"GM expansion in Arlington to include stamping facility" (http://www.star-telegram.com/2012/01/30/3699106/announcement-expected-today-on.html)
This is where the Suburban and Tahoe's are built.

The big three are investing, growing, and putting a lot of folks to work in the states. There are hundreds of these types of headline most of America never sees. The least we could do is buy their vehicles.
 
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   / Expedition EL vs Suburban No chevy or ford bashing please. #35  
When Nissan came to Mississippi I saw a dieing city reborn ( the greater Jackson area ). It was once an area in declining but now there's ritzy shopping malls, new housing everywhere. They say that every dollar Nissan brings in it turns over three or four times before it leaves the area. Same thing now with Toyota in north MS, it was an an area in decline. As huge furniture factories that had been in the area for years started shiping more and more jobs to China, the area was dieing. Now Toyota is in town and the lights are back on in some of the old buildings, but now their supplying parts for cars not furniture. New factories are being built that will bring in even more jobs. That's an investment in Mississippi would have never seen from any of the big three because as a right to work state the unions would have never let them, like Boeing in SC.
 
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   / Expedition EL vs Suburban No chevy or ford bashing please. #36  
   / Expedition EL vs Suburban No chevy or ford bashing please. #37  
You should! That "Wall Street Tycoon", US goverment, and union spend most of that money right here in the US versus the dollars sent to Toyko...
Monster5601 said:
When you purchase a foreign vehicle the profits of the sale leave our country and go to the foreign company. These transactions are doing nothing more that shipping America's wealth off shore.
Publicly-traded companies have shareholders all over the world. Americans own Honda shares, just as Japanese own GM shares. Profits either get invested in growth (i.e. building new factories, which the "foreign" brands are doing here in the US, and employing Americans), or to the shareholders, whatever may be their country of residence.

The global economy changes everything.
 
   / Expedition EL vs Suburban No chevy or ford bashing please. #38  
Bigfoot62 said:
Interesting concept. I hope they make it.
Wonder who they are buying their engine from? (and probably the complete drivetrain)

Building everything inhouse. Its a diesel. We have a few running around the town.

Chris
 
   / Expedition EL vs Suburban No chevy or ford bashing please. #39  
i'll beep in with my .02 cents.

I'm a ford truck guy... but have gotten out of the real m of half tons as much as possible when it comes to towing.

I loved my old dodge half ton.. but let it go.

I'm not a fan of GM.. BUT my wife's 2000 yukon tows pretty nicely. much better than my dodge ram did..

soundguy
 
   / Expedition EL vs Suburban No chevy or ford bashing please. #40  
Ford quit making the vic. No one was buying them anymore and there wasn't enough profit selling to police agencies alone.

Our local police dept took deliver of tons of them just a few months back. They bought up all they could before production ceased.

Here is the wave of the future. Built in my home town and I now live about 35 miles from the factory.

Police Car for Police | Carbon Motors Corporation

Chris

You might be right about that being the wave of the future, but I'll sure be surprised if you are. City police departments usually have to write specifications, then go out for bids, and single source items are almost impossible to buy. And in many cases, they're limited to taking bids from local companies or dealers.

Police officers have, for at least 40 years, wished that someone built a car designed for law enforcement, but it hasn't happened and they couldn't afford to buy it, if it did happen.

Specific purpose anything, and especially specific purpose vehicles, have a hard time staying in business. How many remember the Checker Car Company ? They did last a long time, and there was just nothing to compare to them; best taxicab made in it's day. I used to drive one, but the taxicab companies found cheaper vehicles that would do; not quite as good, but cheaper and usable.
 

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