Ford Motor Company | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-01-02

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00:02:59 1 History
00:03:08 1.1 20th century
00:09:18 1.2 21st century
00:22:35 1.3 Logo evolution
00:22:45 2 Corporate affairs
00:22:54 2.1 Executive management
00:23:33 2.2 Financial results
00:25:53 3 Ford Motor Company Fund
00:27:05 4 Operations
00:27:36 4.1 North America
00:28:27 4.2 Europe
00:34:26 4.3 East and Southeast Asia
00:36:45 4.3.1 Ford of Korea
00:38:36 4.4 South and West Asia
00:40:47 4.5 South America
00:41:34 4.6 Africa
00:43:39 5 Former operations
00:43:49 5.1 East and Southeast Asia
00:44:09 5.1.1 Ford of Japan
00:47:12 5.2 Oceania
00:51:23 6 Products and services
00:51:33 6.1 Automobiles
00:54:13 6.2 Current marques
00:54:22 6.3 Former marques
00:54:31 6.4 Trucks
00:59:15 6.5 Buses
01:02:52 6.6 Tractors
01:04:02 6.7 Financial services
01:04:18 6.8 Automotive components
01:04:39 7 Motorsport
01:05:18 7.1 Open-wheel car racing
01:05:28 7.1.1 IndyCar
01:06:45 7.1.2 Formula Ford
01:07:11 7.1.3 Formula One
01:08:26 7.2 Stock car racing
01:09:48 7.3 Rally
01:11:13 7.4 Rallycross
01:11:57 7.5 Sports cars
01:15:14 7.6 Touring cars
01:15:50 7.7 Drag racing
01:16:20 7.8 Drifting
01:16:50 8 Environmental initiatives
01:17:01 8.1 Compressed natural gas
01:17:36 8.2 Flexible fuel vehicles
01:18:43 8.3 Electric drive vehicles
01:18:53 8.3.1 Hybrid electric vehicles
01:23:22 8.3.2 Plug-in electric vehicles
01:29:35 8.4 Hydrogen
01:31:43 8.5 Increased fuel efficiency
01:35:13 8.6 PC power management
01:35:58 9 Sponsorships
01:36:57 10 Sales numbers



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Ford Motor Company is an American multinational automaker headquartered in Dearborn, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit. It was founded by Henry Ford and incorporated on June 16, 1903. The company sells automobiles and commercial vehicles under the Ford brand and most luxury cars under the Lincoln brand. Ford also owns Brazilian SUV manufacturer Troller, an 8% stake in Aston Martin of the United Kingdom, and a 49% stake in Jiangling Motors of China. It also has joint-ventures in China (Changan Ford), Taiwan (Ford Lio Ho), Thailand (AutoAlliance Thailand), Turkey (Ford Otosan), and Russia (Ford Sollers). The company is listed on the New York Stock Exchange and is controlled by the Ford family; they have minority ownership but the majority of the voting power.Ford introduced methods for large-scale manufacturing of cars and large-scale management of an industrial workforce using elaborately engineered manufacturing sequences typified by moving assembly lines; by 1914, these methods were known around the world as Fordism. Ford's former UK subsidiaries Jaguar and Land Rover, acquired in 1989 and 2000 respectively, were sold to Tata Motors in March 2008. Ford owned the Swedish automaker Volvo from 1999 to 2010. In 2011, Ford discontinued the Mercury brand, under which it had marketed entry-level luxury cars in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and the Middle East since 1938.
Ford is the second-largest U.S.-based automaker (behind General Motors) and the fifth-largest in the world (behind Toyota, VW, Hyundai-Kia and General Motors) based on 2015 vehicle production. At the end of 2010, Ford was the fifth largest automaker in Europe. The company went public in 1956 but the Ford family, through special Class B shares, still retain 40 percent voting rights. During the financial crisis at the beginning of the 21st century, it was close to bankruptcy, but it has since returned to profitability. Ford was the eleventh-ranked overall American-based company in the 2018 Fortune 500 list, based on global revenues in 2017 of $156.7 billion. In 2008, Ford produced 5.532 million automobiles and employed about 213,000 employees at around 90 plants and facilities worldwide.