Dodge and Cummins
10-10-2011, 07:05 PM
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Dodge and Cummins
So, this guy just told me that dodge is going to switch to a CAT engine. Obviously I don't believe him but have not heard of this happening. Has anyone heard of Dodge going to a CAT engine?
10-11-2011, 08:42 AM
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As for Cat getting out of the OTR market ... they just released a new OTR truck themselves. See it here - http://www.cat.com/on-highway-transportation
10-11-2011, 02:28 PM
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That's exactly what I asked him! he probably thinks they do own cummins, just like most everyone else. He didn't respond to it but I think he does. But WHY does everyone seem to think that ford owns Cummins? where are they getting their information from?
10-11-2011, 09:27 PM
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CAT couldn't take it...lol....they sold the blueprints of the C-15 to international...and they were getting out. But then they built their own CAT vocational line of trucks with a new cat engine....they even put a cat automatic transmission in it, as an option.
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10-11-2011, 09:31 PM
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I used to tell everybody that Ford owned Cummins and I dont know where I heard it from
10-11-2011, 10:53 PM
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At one point in about 1992 Ford owned about 10% of Cummins stock. It was never enough to be able to influence Cummins in any way, and Ford had sold it off by 1995.
10-12-2011, 08:53 AM
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As for Cat getting out of the OTR market ... they just released a new OTR truck themselves. See it here - http://www.cat.com/on-highway-transportation
But if I was Cat, I would have done the same.
10-12-2011, 01:23 PM
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Ford does not claim to own Cummins. It is uninformed idiots that make that claim. I’d be willing to bet that somewhere in Fords investment portfolio they still have a few shares of Cummins. I’m sure somewhere in my mutual funds I own some Cummins stock.
10-12-2011, 01:27 PM
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Ok, I was talking to a guy a couple years ago from a ford dealer and he was advertising the new ford mustang and we started talking diesel and he said ford owned cummins (51%) and that in 2012 ford was going to put Cummins in their pick ups and dodge was going to go to mercedez or something. I called bull but that guy "knew what he was talking about".