The outlook for auto stocks continues to be hotly debated in investment circles with “new generation” businesses coming up against the industry behemoths.

Among U.S. automakers, Ford (NYSE: F) was the one that managed to sail through the Great Recession without a government bailout, it’s making muscular moves in the electric car space, and it has plenty of cash on the balance sheet. Yet its stock is rolling downhill like somebody left the parking brake off.

In this segment of the Motley Fool Money podcast, host Chris Hill and senior analysts Andy Cross, and Ron Gross lay out the reasons that automaker has yet to get its recovery in gear.