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Sick of U.S. automakers bearing cars that can’t absolutely bout the performance, affluence or accessibility of adopted rivals? So is Ford — which is why they’ve alien Your Ideas, a new online association that allows users to advice the aggregation advance bigger products.
Your Account takes a grassroots access to auto innovation. Instead of advance millions of dollars into new car platforms that don’t sell, Ford is allurement cast loyalists and haters akin to bell in with new, advantageous account for artefact improvement. And, like a lot of aggregate on the web today, the action is community-led.
Ford explains: “Your Ideas…allows you to column your abstraction and advance it with comments from others. Visitors can participate in a community-based ambience online area they can analysis and animadversion on anniversary other’s ideas. Humans can aswell amount the abstraction with a thumbs up or down. You can clue what humans anticipate about your suggestions. Account that acquire the a lot of thumbs up ratings from admirers will be animated to a most-popular account list. Once your abstraction is aesthetic to the akin that you’re annoyed with, you can allotment it with Ford Motor Aggregation by beat on fordnewideas.com.”
Registering one’s abstraction is fast and simple. Ford does abstinent the abstraction forums, acknowledging submissions afore they appear, to accumulate them clean. But the absolute fun is in browsing through anybody else’s. Your Account hasn’t even been reside for an absolute anniversary and already about 400 account acquire been submitted.
Currently, Brian M holds the appellation for a lot of accepted idea. He suggests: “Sell the Fiesta and Focus with the ECOnetic agent advantage in the US. … ECOnetic diesels are already accessible to the European market.” Humans assume to accede with Brian. As of Wednesday afternoon, his abstraction has becoming 191 votes — with 187 in favor of the proposal.
But not everyone’s abstraction is bright. Tim O, for instance, wants exoteric cup holders placed amid the awning and windshield of his Ford Freestyle. Meanwhile, Jay G suggests a bound controlled car awning that slides out of the roof and protects cars from the rain. Fortunately, the majority of account submitted are of a college caliber.
So far, a lot of account abatement beneath the class of “Comfort/Conveniences” — which either says a lot about what drivers amount a lot of or what they anticipate Ford is accomplishing wrong. The atomic accepted class is “Safety/Security,” with “Personalization/Customization” not far ahead.
If you’ve got an abstraction and wish Ford to listen, appointment theFordStory.com and abide it today. Who knows, you ability be sitting on a million-dollar abstraction that could save the American auto industry.
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