Ford employees ask the company to stop making police cars

Re:Ford employees ask the company to stop making police cars by hirundo on Thursday July 09, 2020 @04:01PM (#23784442)

How does this discomfit the police in any way? When they go to add to their fleet and Ford says no thanks, they just buy another brand. Ford doesn't offer features or prices such that this would be a problem.

And meanwhile, what does this do to Ford sales outside of law enforcement, as in the red states ... where all of those pickup trucks are sold, and where police are far more popular?

So if they get what they ask they get a smaller more fragile employer with a decreasing workforce and fewer funds for raises, in return for a symbolic gesture.

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Re:Ford employees ask the company to stop making police cars by nitrogen on Thursday July 09, 2020 @04:04PM (#23784482)

Ford doesn't offer features or prices such that this would be a problem.

I was under the impression that police variants of cars are heavily modified for structural and performance reasons, at least in the US. e.g. someone once gave me a ride in an auctioned used Interceptor and demonstrated the switchable performance and traction modes that were unique to that version.

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Re:Ford employees ask the company to stop making police cars by hirundo on Thursday July 09, 2020 @04:08PM (#23784528)

There are no barriers to their competitors offering those same features. And even if every domestic car maker joins the reverse boycott, foreign makers would be delighted to pick up the business, and the police may well get superior cars.

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