Ford management, if you care to call it that, has been in chaos.

FORBES: Magazine Article

"If you have to fault Bill Ford for something, it's for not reacting sooner" when conditions began to worsen, says veteran auto analyst Maryann Keller, who nonetheless feels Bill Ford has done a decent job in a tough situation.

FORBES: Bill Ford finds that fixing Ford is harder than he thought.

Update: Martin Ford (thank you to Steve for alerting me to it) a piece for Project Syndicate here.

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"One Ford is a good thing on paper, but you'd better execute it properly, or you could have a big mistake, " says Global Insight's John Wolkonowicz.

FORBES: Back To The Future

Maybe it's time you talked to a motor company -- Ford is on the warpath to reduce energy consumption.

ENGADGET

The 2.0-liter direct-injection turbo four (240 horsepower, 251 pound-feet of torque) is certainly adequate to hustle the Evoque along the highway, but the character of the engine (a Ford EcoBoost in British drag) can get pretty thrashy and stressed when you hammer it.

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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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