Ford’s marketing VP: “F**k General Motors!”

The Ford Company’s marketing and communications vice-president Jim Farley attacked the General Motors competition in an unique and uncensored way.

During an interview taken by a journalist of the New York Times, Ford’s VP, Jim Farley, said with an ironic smile on his face that he would beat the ones at Chevrolet with a baseball bat because he hates them so much.

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Joe_Limon - 7/22/2011 10:33:25 AM

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Well that's embarrassing. I'm surprised but glad he didn't throw out the "hater" card.

1c3am5 - 7/22/2011 10:51:34 AM

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That's nuts. I'd can him yesterday if I were Mulally.

MorePower - 7/22/2011 5:22:44 PM

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Good thing you are not!!! A little angst is good for company morale and it has people talking about it, which is good for pr.

grenouille - 7/22/2011 11:08:53 AM

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Now i know by looking at his face where Lincoln got that stupid looking front grills from........

JRobUSC - 7/22/2011 11:10:44 AM

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there's no way someone that high up would say something like that in a prearranged interview without having cleared it with the company brass first. This wasn't TMZ catching the guy off guard drunk outside a club, this was a sit down with the NY Times. You can bet your ass everything he said came from Mulally and the Ford family, they just chose this VP as the mouthpiece because they couldn't say it themselves.

internationalmanofmystery - 7/22/2011 11:18:05 AM

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So, he should not be worried about job security seeing as though he told probably the one company that might hire him after this to fuck off!

JRobUSC - 7/24/2011 11:48:47 AM

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no, because he's not getting fired. The VP of Marketing and Communications (translation: the mouthpiece of the company, whose job is to talk to the press) doesn't say things like this on accident. He knew what he was doing.

1c3am5 - 7/22/2011 12:50:09 PM

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This wasn't publish April 1st was it?

Yonder7 - 7/22/2011 1:48:14 PM

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Does that reflect the American culture ?

Auto_expert - 7/22/2011 4:00:29 PM

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Both are union, so screw them both.

uaw_lax - 7/23/2011 1:17:00 AM

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What car company isn't union ?

vvelez - 7/22/2011 11:58:36 PM

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I'm OK with this

delan - 7/24/2011 7:41:54 AM

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Way to keep it classy...

tango - 7/24/2011 2:01:23 PM

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Okay. So Ford has its loud-mouthed version of Akerson. Good. So now that the battle of the not-so-sanes has begun can we continue with the business of building some of the best cars to ever be built by either company?