But tributes are being made this week to another top Ford man who help revive the troubled automaker in the 1980s - former chairman and CEO Harold 'Red' Poling. There are various access options to choose from. All provide instant access to the latest... Full Article at Just-Auto.com
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Lapham is executive editor of Automotive News. So the excitement at the Ford annual meeting last week was whether 66-year-old CEO Alan Mulally has a timetable for leaving. Big whoop. What did you expect him to say? Once upon a time you could go to the... Full Article at Automotive News
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We believe this is the first time a program of this type and magnitude has been done with an ongoing pension obligation
Mulally and his team had done what many thought impossible even in the best of times ... They had restored the American people's faith in Ford Motor Company.
We're not going to build and sell cars and trucks just to get market share ... We have a plan and will stay disciplined.
I spent many hours sitting across the table from Mulally in his corner office on the twelfth floor of Ford’s world headquarters. I learned a lot about how to change cultures and streamline organizations, and I believe these principles will prove as valuable to your organization as they have to Ford.
We feel really good about the strategy we adopted five years ago but also the progress we have made
Most people would think that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the Supreme Court would need more security than Alan R. Mulally, the chief executive of Ford Motor Company. Ford’s directors don’t seem to agree. The board requires that Mr. Mulally — for safety reasons — fly on a private jet whether he is goin...
We continue to expect 2012 to be a solid year marked by ongoing progress on our commitment to deliver great products, invest for global growth, build a strong business, and provide profitable growth for all ... We have both challenges and opportunities ahead, but we remain singularly focused on realizin...
Most people would think that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the Supreme Court would need more security than Alan R. Mulally, the chief executive of Ford Motor Company. Ford’s directors don’t seem to agree. The board requires that Mr. Mulally — for safety reasons — fly on a private jet whether he is goin...
We can't guess what the demand is going to be, but it's on the same line [with the gas-engine Focus] and 70% to 80% of the parts are the same, so you can imagine the efficiencies
I think Alan Mulally is a great CEO, but I don't think any human being in the world deserves that much money. I think it's outrageous
We have the point of view that fuel efficiency is going to be very, very important for all of us going forward ... We want everybody to have the power of choice to get a vehicle that they need and works for them from Ford.
The next big one that's coming now is natural gas
This could be upwards of 13% of the U.S. GDP if they were to go into freefall ... We believed [seeking the bailout] was the right thing for the industry, the right thing for the United States of America.... I'd do the same thing today.
When you move into an all-electric vehicle, the battery size moves up to around 23 kilowatt hours, [and] it weighs around 600 to 700 pounds
The vast majority will be hybrids
We believe the electrification of vehicles will continue as the battery costs come down and there's a move to generate clean energy
So you can see why the economies are what they are
We believe that the electrification of vehicles is going to continue as the battery cost comes down ... We see this as continually growing. This is a long-term journey.
The value of light-weighting in the bigger vehicles is so much bigger than on the smaller vehicles
In Ford's case, we can make such a difference because we're a big-volume player
We're not doing loss leaders to subsidize some other altruistic reason ... It has to make business sense otherwise we can't keep investing.
No, because we believe that the electrification of vehicles is going to continue as the battery cost comes down, as we move to generate electricity cleanly
We fell behind the competition by one mile-per-gallon, and I have never seen so many angry comments from truck drivers
Everything about the Ford plan is based on what you might call sustainability
Our focus is going to remain on further integrating Ford worldwide
