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Put Up Your Dukes (Part 2)

by BBelew57 on March 14th, 2006

My first duke blog was about a little guy, a blogger no less, in China being pushed around by a very rich guy.

This one is about a very very rich guy going after one of the richest (the  richest?) companies in the world.

Bill Ford said, "My goal is to fight Toyota." Those are indeed fighting words.

Oh, yeah. Bill, the great-grandson of Henry Ford of Ford Motor Company, said that. And he’s got a black belt in Taekowndo to back ‘em up. OOooo! No matter that Japan is where Karate, Judo and Aikido are from.

Bill’s words - "Toyota is an excellent company, and a terrific competitor."

One of Ford’s biggest problems is that he has to pay American workers $65/hr to do what Chinese (yea, I said Chinese) will do for $2/hr.

Bill has his work cut out for him if he wants to whoop Toyota. I think I heard the Toyota CEO’s response to Bill’s call for a fight. It was something like "Forudotte dare?"

That roughly translates in to "Who is Ford?"

My money is on Toyota. Who do you think is going to win?

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