Exhibit 4.3


Section 5.1 of Article V and Section 7.3 of Article VII of the Ford Motor
Company Savings and Stock Investment Plan for Salaried Employees were amended as
follows, effective September 1, 2004:


                                    ARTICLE V
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 Vesting and Forfeiture of Assets Attributable to Company Matching Contributions
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     5.1     Vesting.
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     (a) Pre-Tax  Contributions  and After-Tax  Contributions.  A  Participant's
right  to  the  assets  attributable  to  After-Tax  Contributions  and  Pre-Tax
Contributions is immediately  nonforfeitable regardless of the Participant's age
and service. Assets attributable to Company Matching Contributions shall vest in
accordance with the following  provisions of this paragraph for employees on the
active employment roll on or after December 31, 2002.

     (b) Company Matching Contributions. Assets attributable to Company Matching
Contributions shall become nonforfeitable upon the occurrence of the earliest of
the following:

     (i)  attainment  by  a  Participant  who  is  an  Employee  of  the  normal
          retirement age of 65 as an active Employee or, if earlier, three years
          after the Participant's original date of hire;

     (ii) retirement  of a  Participant  who  is an  Employee  pursuant  to  the
          provisions  of any  retirement  plan  maintained  by the  Company or a
          Subsidiary;

     (iii)death of a  Participant  who is an Employee  prior to  termination  of
          employment;

     (iv) death or disability of a Participant  who terminates  employment  with
          the Company or a Participating  Employer to enter military service and
          is  therefore  unable  to  return  to  work  with  the  Company  or  a
          Participating Employer within the applicable reinstatement period; or

     (c) Dividends on Ford common stock in the Ford Stock Fund.  Dividends  paid
beginning September 1, 2004 attributable to Company Matching  Contributions that
are reinvested by the Participant in the Plan shall be immediately  vested as of
the date such dividends are reinvested  regardless of the Participant's  vesting
status on such date.

Notwithstanding the foregoing  provisions of this Section 5.1: (1) a Participant
who has  attained at least three (3) Vesting  Years of Service  under the PRIMUS
Automotive  Financial  Services,   Inc.  Prime  Account  as  of  the  time  such
Participant  becomes a Participant shall at all times be fully vested in Company
Matching Contributions; (2) each Participant who, under the terms of

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the Plan in effect on September 30, 1995, would at any time thereafter and prior
to  termination  of  employment  have become  fully  vested in Company  Matching
Contributions  pursuant  to those  terms  shall be  deemed  fully  vested on the
earlier to occur of the  satisfaction  of the  vesting  conditions  in effect on
September 30, 1995, or the  satisfaction  of the vesting  conditions that became
effective  October  1,  1995;  (3) each  Participant  who is an  Employee  as of
December  31,  1997,  and who is  released to Marriott or AVI as a result of the
sale of cafeteria  service  business to those  entities shall be fully vested in
his or her  Company  Matching  Contributions  Account  on  the  day  immediately
preceding the date the individual  becomes employed by Marriott or AVI; (4) each
Participant who is employed by Visteon Corporation at the time it ceases to be a
member of the group of businesses  under common  control  (within the meaning of
Sections  414(b) and (c) of the Code) that  includes the Company  shall be fully
vested  in his or her  Company  Matching  Contributions  without  regard  to the
preceding  provisions of this section,  (5) each Participant who was an Employee
of the Company and who transferred to Vastera Solutions Services  Corporation on
September 1, 2000 shall be fully vested in Company




                                  ARTICLE VII
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                    Withdrawals, Distributions and Transfers
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     7.3    Mandatory Distributions


     (d)  Dividends  on Stock in the Ford Stock Fund.  With  respect to the Ford
Stock Fund,  commencing with the dividend payable for the third quarter of 1996,
all or a portion of cash  dividends  paid on shares of Company Stock in the Ford
Stock  Fund that have not been in the Plan  continuously  since  January 1, 1989
shall be distributed proportionately to Participants who have assets in the Ford
Stock Fund on the dividend record date and do not reject such distribution.  The
amount of such dividends that shall be  distributed to  Participants  who do not
reject  distribution  shall  equal  the  lesser  of (i) the  total of such  cash
dividends, or (ii) the total amount of cash dividends paid on all shares held in
the Ford  Stock  Fund  multiplied  by the ratio of the number of Ford Stock Fund
Units in the Accounts of Participants who do not reject such distribution to the
number of Ford  Stock  Fund  Units in the  Accounts  of all  Participants,  such
determination to be made as of the dividend record date. The amount of such cash
dividends  that shall be distributed  to each  Participant  who has not rejected
such  distribution  shall be equal to the total  amount of cash  dividends to be
distributed  multiplied  by the ratio of the  number of Ford Stock Fund Units in
the Account of such  Participant to the total number of Ford Stock Fund Units in
the Accounts of all  Participants who have not rejected such  distribution,  all
determined as of the close of the New York Stock Exchange on the record date for
the dividend.

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     For dividends paid after January 1, 2002, participants shall have the right
to receive such dividends from the Plan or have them  reinvested in the Plan. It
shall be presumed that such  dividends will be reinvested in the Plan unless the
Participant elects otherwise.


     Dividends paid beginning September 1, 2004 attributable to Company Matching
Contributions  that are  reinvested  by the  Participant  in the  Plan  shall be
immediately  vested as of the date such dividends are  reinvested  regardless of
the Participant's vesting status on such date.

     The  Administration  Committee shall from time to time determine the manner
in which Participants shall be provided an opportunity to reject distribution of
Company  Stock  dividends  or  to  change  a  prior  election  with  respect  to
distribution.

     Distribution of such dividends  shall be made as soon as practicable  after
receipt of such dividends by the Trustee.