He led his rented horse down Baptist Alley by the reins, up to the back door of Ford's.
Back then, Ford had to go outside the auto industry to find a textile manufacturer capable of producing recycled fabric.
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Real Ford employees inched back into the picture in ads for the Ford Taurus SHO version last spring, strapping engineers who worked on the car into the front seats next to NASCAR driver Carl Edwards.
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After spending years closing plants and battling with its U.S. unions to get cost-savings, Ford is adding back production and is running at nearly full capacity, said Jim Tetreault, Ford's North American manufacturing chief.
Back in 2000, Ford teamed up with Maytag, pitching a minivan complete with a washing machine and microwave.
In January Bill Ford unveiled a restructuring--his second in four years--to get Ford Motor back on track by 2008.
Ford is back in the league after sitting out the last three years to rest and recover from injuries.
When it was over, I joined her in the back seat of a Ford Explorer for part of the ride to Green Bay.
Henry Ford, back in the 1930s, was one of the first to posit the use of soybeans as a source for plastics for his automobiles and fabric for his clothes.
Ford cut back on rental and short-term sales during the quarter, resulting in an overall market share loss of 0.8%, but its share of the retail market in major Western European markets is up, Shanks said.
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When Ford pushed back, blaming Firestone and demanding the company recall 13 million more tires on top of the 6.5 million the two companies had recalled in August 2000, Lampe stunned Wall Street by severing ties with Ford, Firestone's then-biggest customer.
Companies including GM and Ford have cut back on operations in Europe to off-set sales declines.
The real reason Ford unexpectedly shrank back from Daewoo is that its due diligence was unearthing one problem after another.
Ford only bears back-end costs such as servers or software licenses.
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Like other carmakers, Ford is giving back some of the market share gained in 2011 when Japanese carmakers were hobbled by the earthquake and tsunami.
Bill Ford adopted a back-to-basics strategy that included cutting 21, 000 jobs and idling a handful of factories, though he later cut a deal with union leaders to give two plants a reprieve.
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The game isn't over, but Ford has been pushed back to its own 20-yard line.
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Has Ford, its financial back already against the wall, overreacted to a temporary spike in gas prices?
The GMB union accused Ford of "going back on its agreement" over a 5.25% pay increase agreed late last year.
One problem: Unions in the U.S. and Canada may want to punish Chrysler for its success, holding back on concessions they make to Ford and GM.
Now, though, the public panels have concluded that it makes more financial sense to use a second-hand hatch-back (1.6l petrol Ford Focus to be precise) - buying one that's five years old and selling at 10.
If Ford wants to bring back the Taurus, it needs to follow its own example and reinvent the car from scratch to shake up the industry, the way it did with the original Taurus back in 1986.
Since then he's announced plans for a potential spinoff of part of Ford's Hertz rental-car subsidiary, and in May Ford agreed to buy back 24 plants from Visteon, its troubled former parts operation, to ensure the delivery of critical components.
Congress has just decided to send the titans of the auto industry back home with empty hands and a big homework assignment - come up with a business plan to get the big three, Chrysler, Ford, and GM, back in the black.
The groundwork for Ford's election was laid back when Toronto quadrupled in size by merging with five suburbs in 1998.
Appearing on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs, Ford said she would not go back in front of the camera.
With the 2013 versions of Fusion and Escape, Ford might be able to snatch back some of its lost market share in the last quarter.
Now, Ford says she's coming back to the perfect situation in New York, surrounded by familiar faces from her Detroit days in coach Bill Laimbeer and some former teammates.
Ford has also become a more open and collaborative place during his tenure, a change from its previous internal culture of "empire building and back-biting, " Executive Chairman Bill Ford said earlier this month.
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