Petition to stop ford!!! *Please Sign*

Ford has started a campaign to retain their use of the "mustang" name. In the process they are going after well established companies, magazines, websites, etc that use the Mustang name. They are biting the hand that feeds them for all intents and purposes.

Here is the online petition to stop em. (Just in case you think, "why would ford listen to a petition". It stopped them from replacing the Mustang with the probe in the late eighties.

http://www.petitiononline.com/65must65/petition.html

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“Readers, we need your help in convincing Ford that their efforts to shut down businesses and websites that have helped build their brands and loyal enthusiast base are doing them more damage than good. Submit your well thought-out and civilized comments here. Within the weeks to come we will send these to the highest ranks at Ford. (Below is the story we posted on May 23rd.)

Apparently Ford thinks a way to improve its image and sales of Ford cars is by alienating the very enthusiasts that loyally buy Ford vehicles. In another one of Ford’s “Bold Moves” they have sent a letter to Mustang Plus, a Stockton, CA based Mustang parts retailer, asking them to stop using Mustang in their business name. They have also sent similar letters to an untold number of other businesses, such as MustangTuning.com and California Mustang. Rumor is they will soon come after magazines, websites, and clubs that also use Ford, Mustang, Thunderbird, Falcon or other Ford brand names.

The Feb. 16 letter from Howard, Phillips and Andersen, a Utah law firm representing Ford (and other automakers in the past and present) on intellectual property enforcement matters, asked Mustangs Plus to:

» Transfer to the automaker the registration for mustangsplus.com.
» Submit to government offices all forms necessary to discontinue registration of the Mustangs Plus name.
» Cancel Internet and telephone directory listings and advertising under the Mustangs Plus name.
» Turn over for destruction all signs, banners, business cards and collateral materials.
» Issue a check to Ford for $10,000 in damages.”