Answer from Ford to me.
Thank you for contacting the Ford Motor Company Customer
Relationship Center regarding our recent restructuring
announcement as part of our "Way Forward" plan for North
America.

Thank you for contacting the Ford Motor Company Customer
Relationship Center regarding our recent restructuring
announcement as part of our "Way Forward" plan for North
America.

Ford's strengths were built over 100 years, and we are taking
the tough-but-necessary steps to address our issues with candor,
speed and compassion for the people impacted by our workforce
reductions. For the third year in a row, Ford Motor Company was
profitable, with net income of $2 billion, or $1.04 a share.
Ford Credit once again made a substantial contribution to our
overall results. And, excluding special items, South America,
Europe and Asia Pacific were all profitable on a full-year
basis, but these profits were more than offset by losses in
North America.

"Way Forward" is our comprehensive plan to focus every part of
Ford's North American business on the customer. It will lead to
stronger Ford, Lincoln and Mercury brands, a strengthened
product lineup and far greater quality, competitive costs and
productivity. The bottom line is a return to profitability in
our North American automotive business no later than 2008 and a
stabilization of our U.S. market share in the near term.

Our North American capacity is being realigned to match demand.
14 manufacturing facilities will be discontinued resulting in
significant structural savings and reduced employment of
25,000-30,000. In addition, we are planning a new low-cost
manufacturing site for the future.

Our new competitive cost structure includes net material cost
reductions of at least $6 billion by 2010. Productivity
improvements will leverage the company's global product
development scale and lean and flexible manufacturing system to
introduce more products faster.

There is much more to the Way Forward plan than just cost
cutting - it will help us reestablish a clear sense of who we
are and what we stand for in North America, and deliver great
new products that customers will find exciting and want to buy.

Thank you again for your interest in Ford and the Way Forward
announcement.

If you have any other inquiries or concerns, please feel free to
contact us and we will be happy to address them for you.

Sincerely,
Harold
Customer Relationship Center
Ford Motor Company

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-----Original Message-----

My email to Ford Motors
Questions: Sorry, our Ford 150 is the last Ford product we will
ever buy.
Buying from Chinese cheap laborers is not for our family.

Putting American's out of work in order to globalize and make
cheap, but
continue to make Billions for CEO's, is only funding Chinese
armies.

Why didn't you work with the Unions? Why didn't you ask them to
work with
you?

IF things are not changed in America soon, there will be no one
of middle
class, to buy your high priced vechicles that are made on the
cheap.

Good Luck selling to Mexico and China...you will need them.

American's are fed up with globalization, it only benefits the
rich CEO's
and foreign countries.

Anyone have a good response for me to send them?????