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Originally Posted by Road_Warrior

The decline in the large car segment started in the EL days and of course led Ford to forecast into the 10 year-plus period to see what the market would look like, bearing in mind other factors that were crucial to a car maker at the time, as they are now (ACIS, tariff reductions, Free Trade Agreements, market changes, global economic conditions and emerging markets becoming manufacturing hubs. I’d wager Holden did the same although they didn’t quite have the foresight Ford did.

That is correct but Ford could have gone down fighting instead of choosing the soft-Richard route they took.