Quote Originally Posted by llan bluebird View Post
I often sit from afar and chuckle at these types of threads on here

This is a Ford story and whether it goes the likes of Woolworths, Polaroid and blockbuster.

A relatively new entrant has taken over a valuable revenue stream in the very important mid to upper ranges; Tesla. Fords attachment to internal combustion engines has almost been negligent, they haven't been caught napping they have been unconscious.

Being unashamed "America First" is a hail mary shout for patriotism in a competitive domestic market and the new entrant is also American and all the new subsidies are going in that direction.

Brexit has nothing to do with it.

Outside the battery, electric cars are pretty easy to assemble, I can see a lot of smaller local, national manufacturers setting up pretty quickly and the landscape will look very different and Ford won't be part of that.

Welcome back British Leyland
Ford disagrees with you: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-47225787

Nobody, including me, is saying Ford left/is leaving solely because of Brexit. But if anybody thinks that didn't play a part in their decision-making, they are deluded.