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At the end of the year Ford checked with his engineers, and again they informed him they had found no way to carry out his orders.

Just as Volkswagen has done with the stunning Scirocco, Ford is seeking to reinvent one of its most famous sports cars.

Sort of brings to mind the Model-T, which Henry Ford famously said was available in any color the customer wanted as long as it was black.

John rolled his eyes when his wife set the brass teapot in the backseat of their Ford Festiva.

Ford reversed this process to see if it would speed up production of a part of an automobile engine called a magneto.

Mr. Pipas declined to say how much Ford's gain was expected to be when the results are officially reported on Monday.

Ford looks, in other words, as though it is now trying to emulate the cuts under way at General Motors (GM).

Their caravan of Land Rovers had been delayed trying to ford a flooded river, her husband had told her.

Tom Ford openly admitted Yves Saint Laurent made his life a misery when he took over as chief designer of the French fashion house in 1999.

But after the election, some people in his company began to call for Ford to be the Republican presidential nominee in nineteen twenty-four.

Manhunt is a New York Times Bestseller and is now to be adapted into a forthcoming film starring Harrison Ford.

Pioneering car maker Henry Ford failed with one company and was forced out of another before he developed the Model T car.

Ford said the company is focusing on talks with Geely and has declined to discuss details of those discussions.

She said, "Today is Harrison Ford day, you guys can ask anything you want about him and I'll try to answer it. "

One of Mr. Ford's great accomplishments was that he paid higher wages than did other industrialists or factories.

There is no doubt that the Ford Mustang is one of the most highly sought after vehicles in automotive history.

As having honestyand integrity and was a committed family man. His wife Betty had battled alcoholism and founded the Betty Ford Clinics.

Something of a visionary, he formed the Premier Automotive Group (PAG) as a separate part of Ford.

"She said she had no heat and they were very cold, and I said , sure I'll come and get you, " Ford said.

Ford is in a similar position, although its cash should hold out for a few months longer.

De La Garza: I am so thrilled that Ford Moto Company is going to be entering the B-segment with such a highly competitive vehicle.

Tillie ordered them into the vehicle, cursed at the women and angrily told Ford to drive him to Six Mile Road, she said.

The answer to the last two questions may depend on the kind of deal that Ford is prepared to do.

The Ford Moter Company had close to half a million employees around the world and I had to keep in mind that I was only one of them.

Now, it has taken Ford three years of tricky negotiations to dismantle the group, selling the European marques at a considerable loss.

Large cars like the Ford Taurus and Chrysler 300 are down in sales on a year-over-year basis, partly because of high gasoline prices.

The people familiar with the process said it has evolved far enough for Ford to accept offers that the company is ready to compare.

In 1969, Ford came out with a new, electronic intermittent windshield wiper, the first in the industry.

Because Ford is the only one of the three major U. S. automakers to avoid bankruptcy, the company still carries the full burden of its debt.

Harrison Ford divorced his wife Melissa Mathison after 18 years of marriage in a settlement worth a reported ? 50 million.

"I thought, " gasped Ford, "that this was meant to be a class establishment . . . "

Ford Motor Co. is considering ramping up exports if it can bring labor costs down, people familiar with the matter said.

Remember this Ford story as you read, and pick out the lines in which the secret of his stupendous achievement have been described.

Ford was always interested in how things worked. he once plugged up the spout of a teapot and placed it on the fire.

During the era when the Escort was born, Ford surprisingly did not embellish its face with its long-standing logo, the blue oval.

Symptomatic of this was the Ford Taurus, once America's bestselling car. By early 2000 it had been reduced to a little-loved rental vehicle.

Ted Daykin was one of the Ford engineers who came out into the parking lot to inspect Kearns' Galaxie in 1963.

Ford took off the gloves last autumn when sales of its new Fusion model appeared to be stalling.

With its Ford engine, the Pantera was supposed to be easier to maintain than something with a finicky Italian engine.

The man sitting next to Ford was a bit sozzled by now. His eyes waved their way up to Ford.

A person familiar with the matter said that Ford specifically told Geely that Mr. Odell would be staying at Ford.

Investors and customers really believe that Ford is a much better company than it was a few years ago and that has created a virtuous cycle.

Henry Ford did not invest invent the automobile, but his assembly line revolutionized manufactory manufacturing and made cars affordable.

For a few seconds Ford seemed to ignore him, and stared fixedly into the sky like a rabbit trying to get run over by a car.

The problem was that to get Don in, I had to ask for the resignation of the department's longtime director, Arch Ford.

The first decision was to concentrate on the Ford brand and sell off the PAG businesses even if it meant taking a loss.

I began my life as the son of immigrant, and I worked my way up to the presidency of the Ford Motor Company.

If such a deal were to be struck between the UAW and Chrysler, GM and Ford would demand something similar.

I began my life as the son of immigrants, and with great efforts I worked my way up to the presidency of the Ford Company.

"Four years from now you'll look back and say Rob Ford did exactly what he said he was going to do, " the new mayor told his supporters.

Real estate investor Dave Lindahl drives a Ford Explorer and says his middle-class neighbors would be shocked to learn how much he's worth.

I was too star struck and afraid of Harrison Ford to talk to Calista, but you and I sat down and had a beer.

For Ford, its failed attempt to build a European-led range of premier marques has been a drain of both cash and management time.

Lewis Booth, Ford's chief financial officer, is said to have taken a shine to Mr Li, seeing in him a real passion for the car business.

One of the popular plays of the time, called "Our American Cousin, " was being performed at Ford's Theater, not far from the White House.

This they saw as the only hope of financing a turnaround in Ford's core North American business (Europe, at least, was already improving).

Like Ford's Sync, Voice Control users will be able to simply say the title and artist of the song they'd like to hear.

The announcement that I would be joining Chrysler in November must have been a real jolt to Henry Ford.

the irascible, autocratic Ford would prove as inept a chief executive in his later years as he had been brilliant in his youth.

The family was that of Henry Ford, his son, his grandsons, and now his great- grandsons.

Ford gave no price for Geely's bid, but two people familiar with it said the privately held group offered just under $2bn for Volvo.

On his way to dominating the automotive market with the Model T, Henry Ford embodied innovation and progress.

Critically, Ford's market share, unlike those of its Detroit rivals, seems to be stabilising, at around 14%.

Ford does boast one of the strongest new-product pipelines of any mass-market vehicle manufacturer over the next few years.

For the new model due late next year, Ford will engineer just a single car as part of its new global product development strategy.

The Presidents who done the best have been, President like Gerald Ford, who swam everyday, you know, really exercised a lot.

Around that time, Ford announced it was ready to put the money-losing Volvo cars unit up for sale.

Ford was the only one of Detroit's three carmakers to avoid a government bail-out during the depths of the 2008-09 recession.

It's not hard to understand why Henry Ford loved the Model T just as it was. After all, the sturdy black car had made him rich and famous.

Mexican buyers are prepared to pay more for a Lincoln-badged vehicle than they would for a similar one with a Ford blue oval.

Ford says the uptick was an "encourage sign" , but stopped short of calling it a bottoming out point.

Ford became Richard Nixon's Vice-President after Spiro Agnew was forced to leave the office to avoid corruption charges.

Lu Guanqiu, founder and chairman of Wanxiang, said the talks with Ford were part of a plan to expand the company's global presence.

The Michigan Assembly Plant was one of the most profitable plants of the late 1990s, building the Ford Expedition and Lincoln Navigator.

And in broad societal impact, he might have fallen short of the man who popularized the automobile, Henry Ford.

But if the economy continued to deteriorate and the industry continued to deteriorate, then even Ford might have to need a bridge loan also.

Ford has said the debt load now puts it at a disadvantage against GM and Chrysler, which had their obligations cut in bankruptcy.

Even if President Ford had chosen Senator Baker to run with him, the chances of the Republicans capturing the South would have been slim.

Crown had been seen as an underdog at best but had been encouraged by Ford if it could find the necessary funding, the paper added.

Workers are allowed to strike Ford Motor, the only U. S. automaker to avoid bankruptcy and a federal bailout two years ago.

But the heart of the hotel will be the wellness center, inspired by Ms. Ford Grimes's beloved cat Dakota, who died of a brain tumor.

I began my life as the son of immigrants, and with great efforts I worked my way up to the presidency of the Ford Campany.

The company's shares have nearly tripled in value since early this year, when it became clear that Ford would not ask for government loans.

From that financial report you'll get a better idea of how much progress Ford has made and how much further it has to go.

Gui declined to put a value on a possible bid, but said Geely Holding was waiting for Ford to formally put Volvo up for sale.

the only car visible was the dust-covered wreck of a Ford which crouched in a dim corner.

"Go ahead. " Ford commanded, "And stay on the job until you succeed, no matter how much time is required. "

In 1967 researchers at the Ford Motor Company discovered that it conducts these ions as though it were a liquid.

Henry ford said it best in his famous quotation 'whether you think you can or you think you can't you are right. '

In its Ford days JLR relied on Ford Credit to finance operations and sales, and did not need direct relationships with banks. Now it does.

When Iacocca took over the ailing Chrysler Corporation in 1979 he did not forget what he learned at Ford.

eg. Ford's all-electric Focus and upcoming plug-in hybrid are due out in the next two years.

It was said President Ford gave American three years of good government and eight years of comedy material.

Alan Mulally, Ford's chief executive, wants to sell Volvo as part of a drive to focus on the company's core mass- market business.

A community of Brazilians from the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul has grown up in Ford Lauderdale , Florida .

The founder of the fashion house was not supportive Ford's work and complained he did not respect the brand's heritage.

"You can't make it on that; it's just impossible, " said Jack Kain, a Ford and Lincoln dealer in London, Kentucky.

I believe Jerry Ford was one of the most underrated of modern presidents.

If one Ford works as planned, a series of benefits will rain down on the company and its suppliers.

We were both driving along Harbour Road when a small white Ford suddenly shot out of a side road.

Jay Jacobs, the state party chairman, told Mr Ford that there are other options for him in New York politics.

That depends on the size of the company. Big companies like Ford may have hundreds of Vice Presidents.

Ford: That's his long way of saying he met me in the street, and I was his for the price of a drink [laughter].

At Ford, the human-resources department has pioneered a scheme to provide up-to-the-minute information to employees about pay and benefits.

Ford has jumped back into the black. How was the automaker able to make the turnaround so quickly without an fusion of cash from Uncle Sam?

The ad might have seemed humorous, except the woman was white and Mister Ford is black . Critics said it was racist.

He never imagined acting would earn him the opportunity to star with Harrison Ford in the upcoming Indiana Jones movie.

Gerald Ford toasted his own English muffins and banged his head on helicopter doors.

In ten minutes, this mechanical wizard had repaired the watch and was on this way home. . . Ford was always interested in how things worked.

Mr Sheng points out a sporty red Ford compact, with a Mickey Mouse steering wheel and Hello Kitty seat covers, standing out starkly.

I cannot believe that Jillian Ford has more credibility with my daughter than I do.

Ford will get reliable, very last-century steam catapults instead, spelling costly re-designs and likely a year or more in delays.

With Ford and GM closing that gap, if Toyota no longer has quality at its core, it could be just as serious a blow as what happened to Audi.

In the photos we can see two massive chrome bars stretched across the grille with a prominent Ford oval badge resting between them.

Harold Ford, a prodigiously talented black Democrat, looked as though he might capture a safe Republican seat.

Toyota has overtaken Chrysler in US light vehicle sales and is expected to dislodge Ford from second place within the next year.

As Henry Ford wisely put it : "Whether you think you can or cannot, you're absolutely right. "

Ford was the only major US automaker not to file for federal bankruptcy protection this year.

Troubled U. S. automaker Ford reported its first sales increase in nearly two years last month. The sales boost came at the start of a U.

Until I became president, Henry Ford had always been a pretty remote figure.

One day Mack McLarty, who had been elected to the legislature just out of college, came to Hot Springs for a Ford dealers' convention.

On Thursday, the union said it had agreed terms with Ford covering all hourly-paid workers represented by the union.

Janice: How does Mr. Ford expect to compete with a company that has such a huge reputation and huge resources?

Unlike Hyundai's program, Ford doesn't seem to be willing to buy back cars at better-than-depreciated values.

Ford said it was "committed to aligning executive compensation to the company's performance and long-term shareholder value" .

Mrs Clinton said it was an attempt to intimidate Mr Ford.

Ford dreamed of a corporate empire so large that it would require the population of an entire American state to fuel it.

Inquiries established this was a Virgin airship advertising the launch of the Ford Mondeo but several correspondents refused to believe it.

Earlier this year, Ford said it would be satisfied if it could stabilize its market share.

in 1914 , when the basic wage for an industrial worker in detroit was $ 11 a week , ford announced that he would pay his workers $ 5 a day.

in 1914 , when the basic wage for an industrial worker in detroit was $ 11 a week , ford announced that he would pay his workers $ 5 a day.

On Friday, Ford will announce plans to open its third assembly plant in China, according to people familiar with the matter.

Other evidence of this trend can be found in Ford's announcement of a new in-car system and Samsung's latest Internet-connected TV .

Just a few days earlier, Ford had issued $1. 1 billion-worth of five-year bonds at 8% interest.

My 2000 Ford Ranger is in this category and the door switch is located in the door latch with one side of the interior lights grounded.

Henry Ford was fond of saying that if he had listened to his customers he would have produced a better horse and buggy.

So the recommended treatment for elevated triglyceride levels is the kind of lifestyle recommended for high cholesterol levels, Ford said.

The only child of a wealthy Ford Motor executive, Williams amassed 2, 000 toy soldiers in his parents' thirty-room mansion as a kid.

Two days before Christmas, Geely announced it had settled commercial terms with Ford on the acquisition of Volvo cars.

Moreover, if a scaled-down GM no longer floods the market with discounted vehicles, Ford should be able to raise its own prices.

Moreover, if a scaled-down GM no longer floods the market with discounted vehicles, Ford should be able to raise its own prices.

Ford Motor Co. and Zhejiang Geely Holding Group Co. said this month that sales in July fell from a year earlier, while BYD Co.

Meanwhile, Ford has capitalized on its status as the only Detroit car maker to avoid bankruptcy protection.

"Our process is like taking a Ford Pinto, pouring on this chemical coating, and turning it into a Ferrari, " Dr. Keefer said.

'The auto-industry downturn appears to be nearing a turning point, ' George Pipas, the top sales analyst at Ford, said in a conference call.

Goldman Sachs analyst Patrick Archambault also said he believed Ford would avoid bankruptcy.

Jobs also has in himself a bit of Henry Ford, another hero.

"The reason for doing it is that the customer is all right with it, " says Derrick Kuzak, head of global product development.

Mr Cheng did not disclosed to the legislature his majority shareholding in Asia Ford Consultants.

Ford advertising and promotion have always been spasmodic, and Ford dealers have usually been treated as a necessary evil .

Ford advertising and promotion have always been spasmodic, and Ford dealers have usually been treated as a necessary evil .

Henry Ford's idea was that an assembly line should be introduced in producing automobiles.

Ford explained his decision by saying that he wanted his workers to be able to afford the cars they built.

Don Leclair, chief financial officer, said further large cash outflows were likely over the next few years as Ford restructured operations.

Ford, with the U. S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and lead author of a report in the March 23 Archives of Internal Medicine.

There is no doubt they are working: sales in March were up 41 per cent, better than GM, Ford or Hyundai.

So over the years, Ford has extended the wall to include thousands of joint ventures and alliances with suppliers.

BYD is not the only carmaker feeling the pinch: this week Ford of the US said its July sales were down 6 per cent year on year.

Other companies began to sell what only Ford had been selling; good, low-priced cars.

Henry Ford had no college education at all. He went on to reinvent the manufacturing process and the entire automobile industry.

Henry Ford had no college education at all. He went on to reinvent the manufacturing process and the entire automobile industry.

Amazingly, Ford did not comprehend the human preference for variety.

Despite the troubles of US automakers, maybe a VW truck is still no match for those stalwarts like the Ford F-150 and the Chevy Silverado.

In 2005, Gerry Ford was also named "UK Entrepreneur of the Year" by the Financial Times, London Stock Exchange and the British public.

Steeda carries a strong reputation within the Ford community as a builder and innovator of original custom parts and equipment.

Ford escaped the fate of the other two Detroit carmakers by tapping credit markets just before they began to freeze over.

It wasn't long before. Ford was turning out several hundred thousand cars a year, a remarkable achievement then.

It's like Henry Ford said: " if I ask what the customer wants to, they answer must be a faster horse. "

This Ford Remote Key Pocket was designed to provide a place to put you remote key and to have better leverage when starting your vehicle.

We love the Henry Ford quote: "If you think you can or think you cannot, you are correct. "

Ford Europe is big and viable enough to allow Ford to remain credible as a producer of smaller cars, primarily in the higher price brackets.

Mercury sales have been down recently, so Ford decided to end the line and focus more on its luxury Lincoln brand.

Eventually, he added other car companies to the suit, but Ford was the principal focus of his hatred.

But Ford would be a very wary seller, fearing that Geely might run off with too much valuable intellectual property.

But at least from the market at noon Monday, the investors still believe that the Ford Motor Company.

But for all that improvement, Ford came in No. 10 among the 27 brands ranked by Consumer Reports.

The Tom Ford woman, conversely, would rather be naked than wear a dress any other woman at the party might own.

Ford said the cuts will reduce the need for costly incentives to reduce bloated inventories.

Hillary and I immediately left for Jordan with a delegation that included Presidents Ford, Carter, and Bush.

GM and Chrysler, however, may not survive long enough to be bailed out, and Ford is burning through the billions, too.

Ford Motor Co. (F) and its partners in China are trying to gain official approval to restructure their three-way joint venture.

Ford said that "all substantive commercial terms" had been settled, though financing and government approvals had yet to be finalised.

Long long ago, farmer ford found a field. He planted apple trees in the field and watched them to grow.

Harvest season arrived; farmer ford got all of the apples and sold them out on the market. He became rich after that.

Today, all the big three US car companies, Ford, Chrysler, and General Motors, have moved substantial parts of their production abroad.

In response, Mr Corker hurled one of the strangest insults in campaign history. He accused Mr Ford of being "an attractive young man" .

However sales were 20% down on the year before, better than GM's performance but worse than Ford's.

July's wretched sales figures came hard on the heels of shocking losses announced first by Ford and then, a few days later, by GM.

Ms. Ford Grimes is prepared to subsidize the clinic with earnings from the hotel .

Singapore's system is rightly famous, though not apparently famous enough for Mr Ford to have heard of it.

Lim, chairman of dermatology at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit and a spokesman for the American Academy of Dermatology.

He probably will be considered an industrial giant on the scale of Thomas Edison and Henry Ford, so one of the great[s] of all time.

Ford, the only U. S. automaker operating without emergency government support, played down the concerns.

The Model T was introduced in 1908, and over the next two decades the Ford Motor Company sold more than 15 million of these cars.

Ford announced on Monday that its North American operations will take the lead on the company's next-generation mid-size sedan platform.

Yu took Ford design documents to China to assist in his efforts to find work with a Chinese auto company, the court papers say.

"To accept money from Ford would have been like admitting it was O. K. for them to do what they did, " he said.

In the later part of the 20th century, Ford Motor Company began to rely on specialist logistics companies for logistics service.

Ford Motor, GM's Detroit rival, had the top-selling model in the clunker program with its fuel-efficient Focus.

Ford had only acquired it through a serious computer error towards the end of the fifteen years' sojourn he had spent on the planet Earth.

A sale would be a relief to Ford , which has been trying to offload Volvo since the end of last year .

We know about this Mademoiselle Ford. The man whose body you located in the glacier was not her brother. Her lover, more likely.

He said Ford intended to sell Volvo, but "we're not going to sell it at any price" .

Ford stared at Arthur , who began to think that perhaps he did want to go to the Horse and Groom after all.

Ford would recover from the dotage of its erratic boss to be a great company once again.

Whether you think you can or your can't, either way you are right. - Henry Ford.

Ford prison riots in London about 95 km away from the near Arundel, is an open prison.

In this case, he means you'll be able to get a two-door, four-door or hatchback Focus off what Ford calls its C platform.

Like the Volt, the battery system in Ford's Focus Electric, due out next year, relies on a cooling system to keep its temperature down.

"The latter agricultural tax time" three agriculture do not ford the tax by no means.

Some of these systems, like Ford's SYNC, link up with the outside world through the driver's mobile phone.

Ford said he was happy to be back in Australia for the first time in 12 years.

The Big Three do not need any more competition, but Ford may let another player into the game.

He was sure that the addition of a high-level GM man to our team at Ford would make a big difference in the next few years.

His lawyer and former university friend , Henry Ford , was with him at his death .

President Ford never got a new suit from me that Mrs. Ford didn't make him come and get on his visits to Grand Rapids.

The latest study also revealed that quality at Ford and Chevrolet is now virtually on par with that at Toyota.

Volvo, having lost so much money under Ford's wing, might do better under a more focused and autonomous management.

It would help the industry across the board, including Ford Motor, which has managed to avoid the need for federal aid.

Henry Ford figured out the assembly-line technique and made it possible to mass-produce automobiles.

To get the blood safely back into the patient, Dr. Kolff copied the design of a water-pump coupling used in Ford motor engines.

The one thing you could never do at Ford was to get too close to the throne.

The cheery quality of Ford's voice was beginning to grate on the barman's ears.

No timeline has been set for the sale of Volvo, but Ford is likely looking to sell the European luxury marque within the next few months.

Meanwhile, Tann had made contact with Ford, and he and Kearns had given a formal presentation to a group of Ford engineers and executives.

As I arrived at the ford in the river, I pulled up my pant legs and prepared to cross.

Ford is in the throes of a cultural revolution directed by Alan Mulally, the chief executive brought in from Boeing last September.

Citi Investment Research says it has a $3. 5 billion outstanding loan from Ford and needs substantial investment over the next five years.

Ford (F) may inadvertently be letting China into the American race for market share. But, Ford needs the money.

Ford decided to provide accommodation and food for those engineers who were absorbed by this abyssal problem.

A cash-strapped Ford had already sold its other European premium brands, and was determined to offload Volvo.

He was surprised to find about ten Ford engineers waiting for him in the parking lot.

Morris immediately recognize that this is in volume production car Ford tremendous results.

Former occupants of the White House and other US dignitaries have gathered at a California church to honour late US First Lady Betty Ford.

This isn't Ford's best integration of its Gillette-inspired grilles, but the smoked finish of our test SES coupe helps a little.

Ford paid $6 billion in 1999 to acquire Volvo, leaving the company with a substantial loss on its investment.

The raised suspension on some of the test-mules suggests that Ford may also be planning a new MPV or soft-roader model.

Ford spokesman Wes Sherwood declined to say whether the Volt incident will spur additional testing on the Focus.

A year earlier he had teamed up with Mary Ford, a country singer whom he later married.

Ford Motor Co. of the U. S. skipped the show, and General Motors Co. had only a tiny corner booth.

Ford said it has settled 'substantial commercial terms' of the proposed sale to Zhejiang Geely Holding Group Co.

Ford is feeling the crunch in Europe and the U. S. , though it has yet to shut a plant in response to the situation.

"Well, that's good then, " said Ford, packing his satchel and preparing to leave.

Drake is a primary care doctor with an MBA and Ford (divorced from the son of actor Harrison Ford) is an Emmy-winning television producer.

Half of the Fiestas sold by Ford in Europe come with the top-of-the-range Titanium specification and are decently profitable, he says.

Nevertheless, the company feels constrained to trade on the terms dictated by Ford, and to conceal the costs and inconvenience of doing so.

Joe Hinrichs, Ford's Asia-Pacific head, said the slowdown was not as pronounced as expected.

At the time, Ford was embracing the idea of diversifying into a services organisation.

The shift is believed to be a precursor to the potential change in the Mazda-Ford joint venture with Changan.

Third, PPR may have disliked Ford's power within the old regime, but swinging to the opposite model is not necessarily the solution.