If Ford wants tobring back the Taurus, it needs to follow its own example and reinvent thecar from scratch to shake up the industry, the way it did with the original Taurus back in 1986.
In the land of lifetime employment (at least for many workers in big companies), Mr Ghosn shocked Japan by announcing the closure of five factories employing over 16, 000 people in Japan alone, cutting capacity by 30% tobringit more into line with sales and boosting utilisation rates to around the 75-80% rates at which car makers begin to make money.