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Read the stories about Ford Motor Co., and you may think things are pretty bleak in Dearborn, Mich. A new CEO, Alan Mulally, is parachuting in from Boeing, supposedly armed with turnaround tools that will put Ford in the black. One part of the company's luxury division, Aston Martin, is on the auction block, and Jaguar and Land Rover may soon follow. Wall Street has lost confidence: Ford's stock, which closed at $8.77 a share last week after a recent run-up, is still valued at less than the company's cash on hand. This week Ford...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ford: Just Fix the Car | 9/10/2006 | See Source »

...have you driven a Ford lately? I rented a Focus in Oregon this summer and can't say I fell in love. The car lacked basics like an armrest and a driver-side trunk release--forget cruise control--and emitted a high-pitched whine at 60 m.p.h. O.K., it was a stripped-down, beat-up rental. But people, please, can't you do better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ford: Just Fix the Car | 9/10/2006 | See Source »

Late yesterday afternoon, Vice President Dick Cheney's motorcade drove over the Massachusetts Turnpike and headed out of view, towards the windowless rear of Boston's Harvard Club. A half hour earlier, Governor W. Mitt Romney, in a black Ford Explorer, had also slid passed the protestors outside the club using the same back door...

Author: By Samuel P. Jacobs, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Cheney Visits Harvard Club Through Back Door | 9/9/2006 | See Source »

...hybrid?s creation was Clinton?s idea, and he approached Ford, the only American automaker with hybrids on the road. Ford obliged, eager to have a ?tastemaker? behind the wheel, as one Ford executive described Clinton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Drive the Clintonmobile | 9/7/2006 | See Source »

...doubt the biblical twist will add to the intrigue of the infamous crime network, which over the past century has occasionally crossed paths with the Roman Catholic church. But Cosa Nostra's sins share nothing with those of the Da Vinci Code or Francis Ford Coppola films - they are real. Provenzano is believed to have had a hand in the slayings of countless rival gang members, as well as of innocent bystanders and crusading magistrates. It's no longer a secret that some mobsters are deeply religious. The mystery remains that they can reconcile what they read in the holy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Mafia Boss's Da Vinci Code | 9/7/2006 | See Source »

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