Word: forded
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...third year of a depression that slashed auto sales to their lowest level in two decades and cost car manufacturers $5.5 billion in losses during 1980 and 1981. But the Big Three automakers have rebounded so strongly that they are now within reach of record profits. General Motors, Ford Motor and Chrysler together earned $2.9 billion in the first half of 1983, and analysts estimate that their combined income could reach $6.6 billion for the entire year. Says Louis Lataif, vice president and general manager of the Ford division of Ford Motors: "I have a feeling that the next year...
...Ford (1982 sales: $37 billion). Detroit's No. 2 manufacturer hopes to claim an 18% market share in 1984, up from 16.8% in 1982. Ford, which held 22.8% of the domestic market as recently as 1978, unveiled a slimmed-down Continental Mark VII ($22,231) this month. The company has been betting heavily on its streamlined Ford Thunderbird ($13,093) sports coupe, introduced with its Mercury Cougar twin in February, and on the compact Ford Tempo ($7,557)-Mercury Topaz line that arrived last May. Ford said Thunderbird accounted for 2.6% of all U.S. auto sales in September...
General Motors, for one, is now trying to join the Japanese. GM is awaiting a federal ruling, expected later this month, on whether it will be allowed to produce a new front-wheel-drive subcompact with Toyota in California. The controversial $300 million joint venture is strongly opposed by Ford and Chrysler. Under the proposed arrangement, the partners would build some 200,000 small cars a year. Such ventures point up the continued weakness of U.S. carmakers. Although Detroit has rebounded impressively, the industry's inability to compete in the small-car market without Japanese aid suggests that...
Beaned on the bill of his batting helmet by a frightening pitch in Game 2, Baltimore Rightfielder Dan Ford homered in the sixth inning of the third game and figured in the winning run when Shortstop Ivan DeJesus erred on a quick Ford bouncer that scored Benny Ayala. It was not unpleasant seeing Ford get up to do these wonderful things, just as, for at least a while, Joe Morgan was a joyous sight. "I have never been this close to going away," he says quietly, but the proud manner in which he adds, "I can still hit the fastest...
Directed by Francis Ford Coppola Screenplay by S.E. Hinton and Francis Ford Coppola...