Ford retained the services of Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and HSBC to advise it on the details of the deal.

BMW and Ford had previously retained ownership of the Rover brand to protect the integrity of the Land Rover brand, with which ' Rover ' might be confused in the US 4x4 market ; the Rover brand was originally used under license by MG Rover until it collapsed in 2005, at which point it was re-acquired by the then Ford Motor Company owned Land Rover Limited.

It retained the rights to the Mini marque, while selling Land Rover to Ford.

The Rover brand, which had been retained by BMW and licensed to MG Rover, was sold to Ford, which had bought Land Rover from BMW in 2000.

In terms of Mercury's smaller cars, the Tracer name was retained, but in 1991, Ford ( and Mazda ) compact cars were designed onto a common platform and the Tracer became a twin of the Ford Escort.

Up to this time, Ford had produced only one " model " at each time with range of body options and retained the idea of a single basic platform, despite the engine choice and two associated model designations.

In 1991, the American Ford Escort was replaced by a version of the Laser / 323, although the Escort name was retained.

The Mainline retained its position in the redesigned 1955 Ford range but was dropped for the 1957 model year when the Ford Custom became the new base model.

The Land Rover marque was removed from the combine at the time of the 2000 sell-off, becoming part of the Ford Motor Company, while BMW retained the rights to build the new MINI which was launched in 2001.

Although the Ford transverse leaf springs were retained the front suspension was made independent.

The British Ford Fiesta retained the Ghia trim designation for the longest amount of time of any model ; for thirty-one-and-a-half years, uninterrupted, from February 1977 to November 2008.

For the 1979 model year, all full-size Mercurys were moved from the 1973 – 1978 full-size Ford to the downsized Panther platform ; the Grand Marquis trim line was retained.

The Ford Taurus heavily influenced the design of the Crown Victoria while the designers of the Grand Marquis retained a number of the features from the 1991 model.

During 1970, despite being fundamentally little changed since the introduction of the Morris 1100 in 1962, the Austin / Morris 1100 / 1300 retained its position as Britain's top selling car, with 132, 965 vehicles registered as against 123, 025 for the Ford Cortina, in that year entering its third incarnation.

Following the team's 3 – 13 performance in 2006, Ford announced that Millen would be retained as General Manager for at least another season, because, according to inside sources to the Ford family, they still believed that Millen was the best GM that the Lions ever had.

Ford kept a stake in the company valued at £ 40m ( US $ 70m ).

Dupont and British Petroleum left in 1997, Shell Oil ( US ) in 1998, Ford in 1999, and DaimlerChrysler, General Motors, and Texaco in 2000.

In Ford v. Wainwright 477 U. S. 399 ( 1986 ), the US Supreme Court upheld the common law rule that the insane cannot be executed.

Writer Budd Schulberg, assigned by the US Navy to the OSS for intelligence work while attached to John Ford ’ s documentary unit, was ordered to arrest Riefenstahl at her chalet in Kitzbühel, Austria, ostensibly to have her identify the faces of Nazi war criminals in German film footage captured by the Allied troops.

* 1974 – Watergate Scandal: US President Gerald Ford pardons former President Richard Nixon for any crimes Nixon may have committed while in office.

On 28 January 1999, Volvo Group sold its business area Volvo Car Corporation to the Ford Motor Company for US $ 6. 45 billion, with the resulting group largely set on commercial vehicles.

38th US President Gerald R. Ford

This led the Dodges to file suit to protect their annual stock earnings of approximately one million dollars, in turn, leading Ford to buy out his shareholders ; the Dodges were paid some US $ 25 million.

, the United States domestic box office grosses of Ford's films total over US $ 3. 5 billion, with worldwide grosses surpassing $ 6 billion, making Ford the third highest grossing U. S. domestic box-office star.

Cooney and Morrisett procured additional multi-million dollar grants from the US federal government, The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations CPB and the Ford Foundation.

Meeting between US president Richard Nixon and vice president Gerald Ford and Nicolae Ceaușescu in 1973

Both Ford and Holden engines are based on racing engines from their respective US parent companies.

The training was the result of a " Chile Project " organised in the 1950s by the US State Department and funded by the Ford Foundation, which aimed at influencing Chilean economic thinking.

After WWII, the newly organized Austrian Army was equipped with the surplus US Army Willys MB and Ford GPW Jeep.

In 1957, the first US conference was held on St. Simons Island, Georgia, with $ 30, 000 from the Ford Foundation.

In April 1953 Ford Motor Company Limited purchased from the US shareholders majority control of Briggs Motor Bodies Limited whose main factory was adjacent to the Ford plant at Dagenham.

It was funded originally by a US $ 25, 000 gift from Edsel Ford but by 1947 after the death of the two founders, the foundation owned 90 percent of the non-voting shares of the Ford Motor Company ( the Ford family kept the voting shares to themselves ).

Ford refused to buy the name for about US $ 10, 000 from Krupp at the time.

To cut down the development cost and achieve a suggested retail price of US $ 2, 368, the Mustang was based heavily on familiar yet simple components, many of which were already in production for other Ford models.

Jefferson's earnings reputedly enabled him to buy a car and employ chauffeurs ( although there is debate over the reliability of this as well ); he was given a Ford car " worth over $ 700 " by Mayo Williams, Paramount's connection with the black community.

The partners at Safir GT40 Spares state they have correspondence from Ford declining Safir's $ 8 million offer.

With the $ 38 million deficit of the Astrodome, control of the Astrodomain was passed from Judge Roy Hofheinz to GE Credit and Ford Motor Credit.

BusinessWeek explained the alliance between Ford and Mazda has been a very successful one, with Mazda saving perhaps $ 90 million a year in development costs and Ford " several times " that, and that a sale of its stake in Mazda would be a desperate measure.

In May 2011, Porsche Cars North America announced plans to spend $ 80 –$ 100 million, but will receive about $ 15 million in economic incentives to move their North American headquarters from Sandy Springs, a suburb of Atlanta, to Aerotropolis Atlanta, a new mixed-use development on the site of the old Ford Hapeville plant adjacent to Atlanta's airport.

By 1907, REO had gross sales of $ 4. 5 million and the company was one of the four wealthiest automobile manufacturers in the U. S. After 1908 however, despite the introduction of improved cars designed by Olds, REO's share of the automobile market decreased due in part to competition from emerging companies like Ford and General Motors.

Chapin reminded Tibeats of his debt to Ford of $ 400 for the purchase of Northup.

In 1999, Volvo sold its car division Volvo Cars to Ford Motor Company for $ 6. 45 billion.

Volvo stopped posting profits in 2005 and in 2008, Ford decided to sell its interest in Volvo Cars ; in August 2010, Ford completed its sale of Volvo to the parent of Chinese motor manufacturer Geely Automobile for $ 1. 8 billion.

In 1975, Olson's family received a $ 750, 000 settlement from the U. S. government and formal apologies from President Gerald Ford and CIA Director William Colby, though their apologies were limited to informed consent issues concerning Olson's ingestion of LSD.

Frank Olson's family received $ 750, 000 by a special act of Congress, and both President Ford and CIA director William Colby met with Olson's family to publicly apologize.

For example, the Ford Excursion could net the company $ 18, 000, while they could not break even with the Ford Focus unless the buyer chose options, leading Detroit's big three automakers to focus on SUVs over small cars.

After two years of research the newly formed Children's Television Workshop ( CTW ) received a combined grant of $ 8 million ($ million in dollars ) from the Carnegie Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the U. S. Federal Government to create and produce a new children's television show.

One Los Angeles case resulted in a $ 45 million jury verdict against the Ford Motor Company ; the resulting $ 30 million judgment ( after deductions for another defendant who settled prior to trial ) was affirmed on appeal in 2006.