monsta
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• The Big Island, HI, USA |
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 Posted:12/3/2003 01:11 |
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| Quote: | | Both saying that not only are they going to keep producing the X, but they will be offering a longer (I kid you not) wheelbase version. |
"...It's likely Ford will continue to build the Excursion -- launched in 2000 -- for the 2005 and 2006 model year and then introduce a longer version of the current Expedition SUV. ..."
Not a longer EXCURSION but a longer EXPEDITION. 
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Joe Talbot
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• Manchester, NH, USA |
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• Registered on 2/8/2004 |
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Posted:2/8/2004 21:13 |
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Jim,
Ford is not discontinuing the Excursion as yet. They are continuing for '04 and there is a possibility that they will continue through '06. Ford's reason for having, at first, decided to discontinue had to do with a new emissions law that would have prevented Ford from meeting the requirements that were to go into effect. Those restrictions concerned a tighter emissions law and a gas mileage requirement that Ford did not have enough time to address. Given that that law is in limbo at this time, Ford is continuing production. If the manufacturers are successful in delaying the proposed laws for SUV's specifically, they may be able to reach the expectations of the government. You can thank all the "Beer can" car owners for aggressively persuing this biased and descriminating law aimed at owners of real trucks and SUV's. Keep your fingers crossed that the manufacturers can find a resolve for this issue before the rolling speed bumps get their way. |
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Dave Sullivan
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• Kitchener, XX, Canada |
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Posted:4/19/2004 15:15 |
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Yeah.. ok its a big one all right. but so what.. My 2000 psd LTD gets better milage and carries bigger 2X4's with the rear window closed than my bronco did with the window open and it was half the wieght of the EX.
The EX happend along about the time that the market was flooded with all those urban assault off road wanna bee's and got a bum rap from the folks who don't know their butts from a hole in the ground.
The EX is just an F250 with nice seats and a cover. I've never heard anybody complain about pick up trucks as being gas guzzling road hazzard beheamoths and yet they are the same darn thing.
Go figgure.
Dave S.
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E. Long
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• Atlanta, GA, USA |
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Posted:4/20/2004 21:30 |
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| Quote: | Yeah.. ok its a big one all right. but so what.. My 2000 psd LTD gets better milage and carries bigger 2X4's with the rear window closed than my bronco did with the window open and it was half the wieght of the EX.
The EX happend along about the time that the market was flooded with all those urban assault off road wanna bee's and got a bum rap from the folks who don't know their butts from a hole in the ground.
The EX is just an F250 with nice seats and a cover. I've never heard anybody complain about pick up trucks as being gas guzzling road hazzard beheamoths and yet they are the same darn thing.
Go figgure.
Dave S.
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Dave,
I couldn't agree with you more. These folks seem to forget that there are 3/4 and 1-ton trucks out there with the same mileage issues...as well as fulls-size vans, too. Way more pickups out there than Excursions.
-Eric
'67 Galaxie 500 - 390 FE, .030" over, FE to AOD adapter, disc brake conversion. The Daily Driver.
'00 Excursion - 7.3L PSD, LANDYOT Gen-II Radius Rods, Factory Tech Valve Body, 200K+ miles and going |
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dnevins
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• San Diego, CA, USA |
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For anyone landing here later: the rumors in 2003 were real, just early. 2004 wasn't the last year. The Excursion was sold as a 2000 through 2005 model in the US and Canada, and Mexico got one more short model year after that. Production at Kentucky Truck Plant in Louisville ended on September 30, 2005. So Jim, your dealers were right to take 2004 orders, and there was a 2005 after that.
On why Ford dropped it: in December 2004, a Reuters story on NBC News, citing an unnamed source, said Ford was ending Excursion production to free up room at the Louisville plant for the updated Super Duty pickups built there alongside it. Ford declined to comment at the time. Sales were also well under what the plant could build. From 2001 on, it sold roughly half of its 70,000-a-year capacity.
On whether the truck updates would include it: they did, partly. The 2005 Excursion got a front facelift, with the old eggcrate grille swapped for parts shared with the F-250. It just didn't continue past 2005.
Dana
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