Me Again wrote:
My guess is that Ford's medium duty sales will fall off as engine support cost and down time are two things commercial users watch carefully. In-house mechanics will complain about complexity of the engine.
It wouldn't surprise me if they drop the F650/750 line, like they dropped the L-Series, Ranger/B-series and E-Series truck lines. Their share of the medium/medium-heavy truck market was very tiny with the L-Series, as it is with the F650/750. International and Freightliner pretty much own the medium truck market. Funny thing is, Freightliner got into that market by buying the L-Series line from Ford and renaming it Sterling.
Ford's share of the mini truck market was huge with the Ranger, as was their share of the van market with the E-Series. Dropping those 2 lines was plain stupidity, much to the chagrin of GM and Toyota.
