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A week after Ford announced Jim Farley as its next CEO, we contacted him for his opinion on the appointment and the future. I have to say the kid’s excited about this opportunity. Here’s what’s happening in the automotive world:
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The auto world cup had a week to digest the news that Jim Farley has been Ford’s CEO since October 2. It has been widely reported that it runs here and in Europe, that the lancia Aurelia B20 GT Coupe 55 of the circle of relatives on the pebble lawn last year and that he spends his free time in competitions and car fairs. It has also been widely reported that with the decrease in the percentage value and profits of the company, it has to deal with wonderful and demanding situations. Experts have intervened with many recommendations over the more than seven days, adding “take personal initiative,” “make certain Mach-E and Bronco launches pass well” and “continue maneuvering the business through COVID.”
We thought of a smart way to figure out what needed to be done to ask Farley himself, so we contacted him to get his ideas.
“I look towards the launch of those products,” Farley told Autoweek a few days after the CEO’s announcement. “Bronco and Mach-E may not be any more different, but they’re great in their own way. In fact, we have more to come. We’ve been very busy in the last 3 years marketing them and we may not be able to communicate about them, and it’s been very difficult.
“Everyone wanted to communicate about the launch of our sedan, like the Focus,” he told us. “And you can believe what I was thinking, “Do you need a Bronco Sport or do you need a Focus? ” “”
Farley told Autoweek that Mach-E and Bronco releases are critical components because they are opportunities for new consumers and told us that Ford’s expansion is “the most important thing.” There are many new expansion opportunities that other people would have no idea about in a classic OEM.
“I have noticed how global the generation is and how ambitious it is towards our company. This intersection between generation and automotive structure is what I’m passionate about: using this connection to create new businesses we’re not in today, and use or take our businesses and energize them.
“If I were a journalist, I’d spend all my time in Rivian. Not for Rivian’s look yet for this Amazon van,” Farley said. Rivian, in which Ford has an investment of $500,000,000, eventually plans to deliver 100,000 electric delivery trucks to Amazon (he also has a massive stake in Rivian). The agreement is the largest electric vehicle order to date.
“Everyone was talking about Apple’s car, now we have a well-funded corporate generation that will make cars in Indiana in gigantic volumes in the top-successful segment of our industry in the United States.
“They may not use distributors,” Farley continued. “They’ll move on to another model. The load design built through Elon (Musk) will not work for them. They have to qualify in the metropolitan markets where those vans will deliver packages.”
“For me, the connected car, the software, the cargo infrastructure, the on-board generation, everything will translate into a very different business and a very different visitor experience, especially in the advertising aspect, and for Ford, this advertising aspect is critical.”
In addition to addressing the advertising aspect, Farley also told us that he was looking for Ford to make them more affordable. “As important as the advertising aspect is our ambition to offer more affordable cars in North America. We are smart in our market percentage above $35,000, we have a wonderful opportunity to offer more affordable cars. With Mahindra Dating (Ford and Mahindra signed a joint venture agreement in 2019), we have a real chance at that.
Farley also told us that the company did well with COVID-19. “Our plants produce about 97% of production,” he said, noting that Ford has had a challenge with absenteeism in both factories and the origin base. “We’ve faced a lot of challenges over the last two months, but we’re catching up.”
“I’m a board member of the Henry Ford Museum with Bill Ford and Edsel and I sent my enthusiastic congratulations to Bill, and he responded how excited he was,” Meyer said. “So I think everyone at Ford deserves to be excited to have a genuine guy from the car at the helm. Farley’s that genuine guy in the car, and he’s a bloodied blue Ford. Jim and I were friends when he was in Toyota. Called me when I had the opportunity to leave Toyota and, along the way, I was in line for a big task at Toyota. And he literally left this great opportunity to pass where his center is. And it’s at Ford Motor Co. I have admired him for this act of religion and love. If there’s anyone who can do it, it’s him.
“He’s not afraid to take ambitious steps. And even though he’s an enthusiast and probably, if it were for him, they’d all be functional cars and race cars, he’s smart enough to know what he’s promoting and how to narrow the line and how to get him back on the baseline. And that’s what Ford needs. It’s not a task for Jim, it’s a passion.”
After our verbal exchange with Farley, he went to Laguna Seca to blow up his Cobra. “I told Bill (Ford) that I would love to serve the company in this new position, but I have to be to run it. It’s my yoga.”
Passion, in fact.
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