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2023-05-24 -Great Cultural Revolution

Ford Reverses Itself and Will Keep AM Radio in All Models-Apparently They Read Their Mail

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Posted by NoMoreBS 2023-05-24 00:00|| || Front Page|| [15 views ] Top

#1 ...I don't think that this was some Fiendish Consipracy(TM) on the part of Ford as much as that somebody in the hierarchy was fixated on the savings from deleting AM capability in the radios, and decided that this was the hill they were dying on.

Mike

Posted by MikeKozlowski 2023-05-24 06:29|| 2023-05-24 06:29|| Front Page Top

#2 Now if Ford would only bring back those little wing vent windows, then now we're talking!

Posted by DooDahMan 2023-05-24 07:01|| 2023-05-24 07:01|| Front Page Top

#3 Possibly the same "person" deciding on the Rainbow F-150 pic release

Posted by Frank G 2023-05-24 07:01|| 2023-05-24 07:01|| Front Page Top

#4 AM? Really? This is 2023. Way back in the 70s when the Japanese captured 30% of the auto market that stuff was old. The Japanese offered cars with good gas mileage, built right the first time, and most things came standard without the door long list of 'extras' tacked on the price. When asked why they didn't practice that old game of nickle and diming customers, their reply was that when you put them in every car, the unit price drops dramatically. The real story here is - Ford will still charge you extra for AM/FM. If they actually did drop the AM radio, it wouldn't take long for most to figure out to take your car to a car audio dealer and get a far better rig at or less in price.

Posted by Procopius2k 2023-05-24 07:06|| 2023-05-24 07:06|| Front Page Top

#5 #2 Ditto that!.

Posted by Dale 2023-05-24 08:01|| 2023-05-24 08:01|| Front Page Top

#6 AM is, for a lot of the folks in the outback, the only way to get local news and weather.

Posted by Mullah Richard OTR 2023-05-24 08:27|| 2023-05-24 08:27|| Front Page Top

#7 No substitute for a good weather band radio when you are outside on an unsettled weather day. There are good weather alert apps for smartphones too, and you should have one.

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-05-24 08:53|| 2023-05-24 08:53|| Front Page Top

#8 The irony from back in the old ways when an AM radio was standard and you had to pay extra for the FM. Now they want to dump AM.

I'd be curious to know if Ford has a deal with Sirius or some other satellite radio outfit.

Posted by DooDahMan 2023-05-24 09:07|| 2023-05-24 09:07|| Front Page Top

#9 #6 Roger that. Spent many years where my only contact with outside world was the local newspaper - all 6 pages - and AM radio.

Posted by Rex Mundi 2023-05-24 09:32|| 2023-05-24 09:32|| Front Page Top

#10 Radio am or fm within a hundred miles of Atlanta is a waste of tome.

Posted by Besoeker 2023-05-24 09:40|| 2023-05-24 09:40|| Front Page Top

#11 I don't listen to (conservative, right-wing, religious, liberal, black, weather, political agitation, Spanish) AM mind feeds.

My 2004 stereo hasn't worked right since Bush.

I listen to the voices in my head.

Posted by Skidmark 2023-05-24 10:35|| 2023-05-24 10:35|| Front Page Top

#12 Getting ready to trace down an antenna fault in my Jeep's SiriusXM setup. I prefer RealJazz to anything else in the car.

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-05-24 10:38|| 2023-05-24 10:38|| Front Page Top

#13 The customer determines what is valuable unless competitors collude like the media market.

Posted by Super Hose 2023-05-24 10:40|| 2023-05-24 10:40|| Front Page Top

#14 They probably figured out people who wanted AM radio would just order their car without a radio and then go third party, which I'm sure the sales department had a sh*t fit about.

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-05-24 10:43|| 2023-05-24 10:43|| Front Page Top

#15 In the late 1970s I got a cool aftermarket car radio that had AM/FM and weatherband built in. Such a device is AFAICT no longer available unless you fabricate one yourself.

Posted by Elmaper McGurque1612 2023-05-24 19:20|| 2023-05-24 19:20|| Front Page Top

#16 At this point, I'd rather have a good bluetooth front end in the dash and just get all the content over the phone. I do understand that would not work for most people. And I'm just not going to put a new radio in my 15 year old car, so I have to pull stuff until I find the problem.

What fun.

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-05-24 20:06|| 2023-05-24 20:06|| Front Page Top

#17 Their claim was that "EV shielding to make the AM radio listenable" was prohibitive. I remain skeptical

Posted by Frank G 2023-05-24 20:57|| 2023-05-24 20:57|| Front Page Top

#18 The AB stock drop has spooked some of the companies in a good way. Blood in the water does that.

Posted by Super Hose 2023-05-24 21:10|| 2023-05-24 21:10|| Front Page Top

#19 Is Ford another one of those woke corporations?

Posted by JohnQC 2023-05-24 23:36|| 2023-05-24 23:36|| Front Page Top

#20 It's probably easier to determine which company is not woke.

Look at those banks that failed, especially Silicon
Valley. The only "experience" required was a acceptable level of wokeness.

Funny how many bank problems all fall under the jurisdiction of the San Fran Fed.

P.S. - I believe Treas. Sec. Janet Yellen was once the head of the San Fran fed. And look how fast SVB and its leftist venture capitalists got bailed out.

Posted by DooDahMan 2023-05-24 23:41|| 2023-05-24 23:41|| Front Page Top

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