A different vehicle color can be specified, for instance, right up to the moment that the body enters the paint booth. Even more importantly, our Filipino customers ordering new Ford vehicles are now taking delivery - not months after placing the order, as they were previously, but in fewer than ten days. That's what international auto companies have to offer the nations of Asia. In today's auto business, working with a global player is virtually essential. That's what we have to offer.
Infrastructure is important, but infrastructure can be created.
That's because this business looks ahead. We have become accustomed to moving products and technology across borders with ease. Development centers in one country may help create products for another Environmental testing may be conducted in Germany on a truck that was built in Mexico. That's how we use our global resources effectively. And Asia needs more of that.