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I feel sorry those people losing their jobs. Blame the big time managers that run companies like Ford and GM. They both have horrible management. They should have been paring down their line up of cars for years. Look at all of the redundancy/parts sharing between cars in their line ups. Is it done to justify a separate brand of cars? I don't know but a Grand Marq = Crown Vic, a Sable = Taurus and a Mountaineer = Explorer. Why bother for a relatively few differences. In addition, Ford does have to keep their shareholders (aka owners) happy. Or else those top people who make all of the money will lose their Multi-million $/yr jobs.