Two finalists will be selected by June 30, though it could be September before a final deal is struck. The average comparably equipped retail price for Ford 2001 vehicles has been reduced 0.3 percent compared with the final 2000 model year prices. Including price changes for added standard equipment, average prices are up 0.8 percent. These simplified equipment offerings across Ford's lines of cars and trucks provides consumers with better-equipped vehicles, providing more value to the consumer and improved efficiency to Ford. The simplified offerings were the result of extensive customer research and customer purchase trends.
Automobile accidents are the top killer of children in North America.
Each year, about 1,900 children under 16 die while riding as passengers. About 70 percent of those victims were riding with a driver old enough to be their parent. Four of every five victims in that age group were riding with someone not old enough to be their parent. And 70 percent were riding with a driver 21 or younger. In 14 percent of fatal crashes in that age group, the driver was between 12 and 15.