During an investor conference presentation last week, Joe Hinrichs, Ford president for Asia Pacific and Africa, laid out the case for Ford growth in China.
Month to month sales is more significant than yearly sales figures this year, and in this case Ford is the biggest winner, having sold 2% more in September than it did in August.
But, to return to the case of Ford, what if employers simply decided to hand workers a bigger piece of the pie?
In the case of Ford, however, investors enamored by its up-by-the-bootstraps survival in 2009 and 2010 are beginning to notice some of the warts.
Is it simply a matter of there being a finite number of facial geometries? (You'll note, perhaps, that the Toyota Avalon looks like the latest product from Ford Design.) Was it, as others have suggested, a case of intellectual property and fair play, since Ford at one time owned Aston Martin?
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Now what you have is in the case of GM and Ford, most assuredly, and Chrysler coming behind, particularly with the new Fiat technologies, all three of these companies are going to be able to offer Americans fuel-efficient cars.
General Motors and Ford Motor shares tend to trade in tandem, even though we all know GM is the basket case that needed a federal bailout, while Ford sailed through the economic crisis without any taxpayer assistance.
Mr. Ford might have ascertained this to be the case had he bothered to make inquiries.
It is in some respects similar to what happened in the case of another iconic American business, Ford Motor Company.
John McCain, for example, people like me wondered whether this would turn out to be a year like 1976 or 1980, when the challengers to the front-runners -- Ronald Reagan to Gerald Ford, then Ted Kennedy to Jimmy Carter -- pressed their case all the way to the convention.
In one case Keys to the City got an aspiring comedian Mark Malkoff the keys to a Ford Fusion.
Ford has put its Jaguar team and Cosworth engine maker up for sale because it could not make a compelling business case to continue next season.
The inspectors had been commissioned by the Northern Ireland justice minister, David Ford, to assess how the various agencies he was responsible for had fulfilled their responsibilities in relation to the McDermott case.
In the case of a new small car, the Fiesta, that will be sold worldwide starting next year, Ford's top U.S. designer, Peter Horbury, suggested jazzing up the largely European design by adding certain chrome details favored by Americans.
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