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Old 02-11-2008, 02:22 PM   #1
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Is it only me or has the Ford Australia website taken a hit??
It is showing Ford Puerto Rico Crown Victoria stuff up the top and looks a bit strange.. :

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Old 02-11-2008, 02:25 PM   #2
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Is it only me or has the Ford Australia website taken a hit??
It is showing Ford Puerto Rico Crown Victoria stuff up the top and looks a bit strange.. :
I think your right.
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Old 02-11-2008, 02:27 PM   #3
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Is it only me or has the Ford Australia website taken a hit??
It is showing Ford Puerto Rico Crown Victoria stuff up the top and looks a bit strange.. :
LOLZ.

Yeah top bar in Spanish
Seems like the Ford Friday has hit. Website coder looks like he didn't get the page finished before 2pm on Friday and went on a long lunch, didn't come back.

I bet, Ford told them to reference the Puerto Rico Website info and setup the Aussie like that, except looks like the coder "really" reference the Puerto Rico site.
Coder won't be at Ford anymore, there goes his Diploma from Uni. Lolz

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Old 02-11-2008, 02:55 PM   #4
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That looks interesting..
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Old 02-11-2008, 02:57 PM   #5
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Old 02-11-2008, 02:57 PM   #6
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Is it only me or has the Ford Australia website taken a hit??
It is showing Ford Puerto Rico Crown Victoria stuff up the top and looks a bit strange.. :
I bet the maintenance and update of the site has been outsourced. And the new contract has resulted in this 'balls up' !
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Old 02-11-2008, 03:24 PM   #7
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Could be the Indian progammers fault?
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I think that coder just lost his job.
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Old 02-11-2008, 03:52 PM   #9
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Well the Ford factory IS in Mexico..........
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Old 02-11-2008, 03:53 PM   #10
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lol the site is most likely is receiving an update as we speak.. give it by tommorow it will have a different face
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Old 02-11-2008, 04:25 PM   #11
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Old 02-11-2008, 04:58 PM   #12
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Probably done by one of Ford's very (so Called) knowledgeable service technicians :
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Old 02-11-2008, 05:28 PM   #13
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I see Ford's Marketing department is doing it's usual bang up job
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Old 02-11-2008, 05:32 PM   #14
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I see Ford's Marketing department is doing it's usual bang up job
Well it's making everyone look!
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Well it's making everyone look!
Maybe for all the wrong reasons....
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Old 02-11-2008, 05:40 PM   #16
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Well it's making everyone look!
was thinking the same

in under 3 hours 14 people have looked at it

cashie do you work in fords advertising dept lol

one thing i noticed that is all the vehicle stats ect are still in english

just a thought

are ford finaly puting some thought into there marketing ie.. lets make people talk about our web sites ect

will get others to look at it that wouldnt normally do so we may sell a few more cars

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Old 02-11-2008, 06:23 PM   #17
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It's the CMS software they use called FatWire that's half the problem - I know from experience. :(
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Old 02-11-2008, 06:30 PM   #18
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Lmao!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Old 02-11-2008, 07:15 PM   #19
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Hahahahahahaha, that's too funny. Someone's going to get reamed for this.
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Well at least they are going to blitz the competition in Puerto Rican sales tomorrow.
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I debated starting a thread on this when i went to look at the new XR5Turbo after seeing one yesterday. I thought I'd mis-typed the URL...I'm not fluent in spanish unfortunately *sniff*
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Still messed up, it is just the header as the cars are ok.
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They might get flooded with demands for the Mustang and decide to release it here.
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thats just too funny, wonder how long it'll take before they realise
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Lets make a call to Ford today, to buy only cars in Spanish!

Tell them the website says so! LMAO!
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HAHAHA that's funny.
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i know mexico is cheap, but this sort of cost cutting must verge on taking advantage on no minimum wage?
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