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CarCast+Edmunds - Ford CEO Jim Farley talks about the importance of hiring top talent, hybrid technology and what Ford does best

CarCast

Bleav + Carolla Digital

Comedy, Automotive, Leisure

4.62.4K Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Alistair sits down with Jim Farley, CEO of Ford, to discuss hybrid technology, hiring top talent, what Ford does well and more. Then the guys chat about the VW ID.Buzz. Presented by DrinkBravago.com

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, Motorizer T. Andrew here with Alistair Weaver. How are you? I'm good. Thanks Matt.

0:14.8

Big covered from Car Week back into swing of things in LA feeling good.

0:18.1

Yeah, kind of. I came back from Car Week and did a couple of meetings here and then

0:26.5

picked up and went off to Tennessee with Ford for

0:31.5

Another vehicle debut and then whirlwind back here.

0:35.9

It's crazy to fly across the country

0:38.2

for about an hour, an hour, 15 minutes

0:42.4

of actual like presentation like you go you do the

0:45.5

presentation you drive the vehicle for about 15 20 minutes and then they shuffle

0:50.0

you back you know they're like stuffed some lunch down your and you're like let's go to the

0:53.7

airport and send you home and then nobody's ever called nobody's ever quite

1:00.5

perfected the idea of how to drive a car virtually guessing as

1:04.9

soon as somebody masters that then you're done then that's it that you don't need to

1:08.4

do it but I I enjoy the trips always run into people that I like talking to and learn something new.

1:14.0

Bank the air miles.

1:16.0

Yeah, yeah, getting the miles.

1:18.0

I was one so I got an anecdote about that my son again to the, but I remember getting on a private jet in Europe where some

1:26.1

manufactured hired a private jet so we were flying into some small airport. And two of my fellow

1:31.1

auto journalists, this was in in bad old days of it,

1:34.0

spent the entire flight whining about the fact that they wouldn't now get air miles

1:37.4

because they're on a private jet.

1:38.8

Anyway, let's go to the ad.

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