Ford to move all small-car production from US to Mexico

[Dste Ace]

Yellow jacket nests in the ground are the worst. You don't know they're there until you run over them

and start getting stung multiple times. My father-in-law got into one a few weeks ago. Brutal.

 

Feel better, Cal.

 

P.S. My next door neighbor is the exact opposite. He operates the riding mower and smokes cigarettes

while his wife runs the push mower, sweating her ass off. Maybe you need to re-examine work assignments...

[Pumpkin Eater]

yellow jackets are mean. They chase you for thousands of feet.

[bbedward]

At least we don't have those giant hornets like in japan

 

They do have those killer honeybees down in the southwest though, they look like innocent honeybees except they'll swarm and attack the fuck out of you

 

I had some yellow jackets get underneath my football pads though one time at a HS practice - that wasn't very fun. Just pulled them out and kept running.

[The Cysko Kid]

At least we don't have those giant hornets like in japan

 

They do have those killer honeybees down in the southwest though, they look like innocent honeybees except they'll swarm and attack the fuck out of you

 

I had some yellow jackets get underneath my football pads though one time at a HS practice - that wasn't very fun. Just pulled them out and kept running.

We actually do have giant hornets. I get them in Norwalk in the fall on the Fallen fruit from my trees. Asian hornets. They make wasps look like flies.

[The Cysko Kid]

I caught one in a jar last fall and didn't dare let it out. I froze it in the freezer instead.

[calfoxwc]

when we moved to s. ohio (I can type with both hands now...)... we first moved into Cambridge, in town,

and we were moving in, I went to figure out which bedroom I wanted, and I heard this really loud buzzing.

 

I walked into a bedroom, and there was this insect so big it looked like a hummingbird.

 

Seriously - it was a bit over 3" long, looked exactly like a wasp/hornet. I killed it, and all the relatives and my family were

shocked that anything like that existed. Years later, I asked a biology insect specialist about it . and he said they live

in the ground, and usually only come out at night. This thing had a stinger over 1/4" long. Never have I seen one again.

[The Cysko Kid]

I saw a ton of them last fall and fully expect to see them again shortly. I'll get a picture when I do.

[DieHardBrownsFan]

I used to catch them in Okinawa and eat them. Quite tasty.

[Canton Dawg]

Fiat Chrysler ending car production in the U.S.

 

 

The company may be called Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, but by early next year, it won't be making automobiles in the U.S.

 

Instead, Fiat Chrysler's U.S. plants will be focusing entirely on pickups and SUVs for the Ram and Jeep brands.

 

Fiat Chrysler is winding down production of the Chrysler 200 and Dodge Dart and will primarily produce Jeep SUVs and Ram pickups in the U.S. The company's remaining car models will be made in Mexico, Canada or other foreign nations.

 

Ending passenger car production in the U.S. is part of CEO Sergio Marchionne's multibillion-dollar plan to increase profit margins to match competitors. It's a bet that recognizes the growing popularity of SUVs in America, low gas prices and lower cost of producing vehicles in Mexico.

 

"By the time we finish with this, hopefully, all of our production assets in the United States if you exclude Canada and Mexico from the fold all those U.S. plants will be producing either Jeeps or Ram," Marchionne said Wednesday during a conference call with Wall Street analysts after the automaker reported second-quarter earnings.

 

The Jeep and Ram brands have been driving sales gains recently, with the Dodge Dart and Chrysler 200, highly touted when they were launched, have been disappointments.

 

"There will be no passenger cars that will be produced in the U.S., and therefore, our expectation is that concentration will give us the possibility to get very close" to the 12.1% profit margin that General Motors reported as part of its second-quarter earnings last week.

 

Marchionne has been trying for years to increase its North American profit margins and match crosstown rivals Ford and General Motors. His realignment will help the automaker finally reach that goal. That plan also includes moving production of the replacement for the Jeep Compass and Patriot to Mexico.

 

"I think our biggest task now is to close the operating margin gap with our competitors. That remains a permanent fixation that we have inside the house," Marchionne said. "I think we will be de-carred in the U.S. by (the first quarter) of 2017."

 

http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2016/07/28/fiat-chrysler-ending-car-production-us/87649136/

[Pumpkin Eater]

So that leaves GM? At least Ford is just retooling production; that is moving trucks and large cars back to the US which should result in a net gain in jobs for the US.