In October 2004, the company set up the dedicated AMEP engine production plant within the Ford Germany Niehl, Cologne plant.

The American automaker Ford Motor Company has an assembly plant located on the South Side, and most of the facilities of the Port of Chicago are here.

The Ford GT was assembled in the Ford Wixom plant and painted by Saleen, Incorporated at their Saleen Special Vehicles plant in Troy, Michigan, USA.

During this time, HMBB was the first company to assemble bodies for Ford Australia until their Geelong, plant was completed.

This engine also continued in use in some export markets using units built at a Ford plant in Brazil, where Land Rovers were built under license and the engine was also used in Ford pick-up trucks built locally.

Land Rovers were manufactured primarily at the Solihull plant, near Birmingham, but production of the Freelander was moved to the Halewood Body & Assembly plant near Liverpool, a former Ford car plant.

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.

* October 18 – Ford officially launches volume production of Fiesta car at its Valencia plant.

American factory workers at the Soviet Ford GAZ plant, suspected by Stalin of being ' poisoned ' by Western influences, were dragged off with the others to Lubyanka by the NKVD in the very same Ford Model A cars they had helped build, where they were tortured ; nearly all were executed or died in labor camps.

Henry Ford helped build a large truck and tractor plant ( GAZ ) in the late 1920s, sending along engineers and mechanics, including future labour leader Walter Reuther.

The Ford Motor Company plant at Cologne was not bombed, but went out of production because its suppliers had been bombed out.

Under its terms, the Soviets agreed to purchase $ 13 million worth of automobiles and parts, while Ford agreed to give technical assistance until 1938 to construct an integrated automobile-manufacturing plant at Nizhny Novgorod.

In the resulting scramble for production facilities Ford bought Briggs whose new Doncaster, Yorkshire plant built the unitary construction bodies and fully trimmed them for Jowett Javelin cars and Bradford vans.

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.

Also at this time new industries near the area such as the Ford Motor Company plant at Dagenham caused a new wave of mostly working class developments along the route of the new Underground line.

In 1929, Newton Steel opened a manufacturing plant on Lake Erie in Monroe, and this plant would later be purchased by Alcoa in 1942, Kelsey-Hayes in 1947, the Ford Motor Company in 1949 and subsequently under their Visteon division in 2000 and later as the Automotive Components Holdings in 2005.

Sky Chief is dispensed from a silver gas pump in contrast with the red pump used for Fire Chief gasoline – a move that lasts many years until the early 1960s. 1939 Texaco tanker truck by Dodge on display at the Henry Ford Museum.

Ford found that customers were turned off by the car's oval shape, and although it managed to retain its title as the bestselling car in the United States, this was only because of heavy sales to rental fleets ; 51 % of all Taurus sales for 1996 went to rental fleets, in contrast to the Honda Accord and Toyota Camry, of which most sales were to private customers through retail outlets.

By contrast, the estate models combined the Mk IV's bodyshell ( which was initially from the 1970 Ford Taunus ) with Mk V front body pressings.

By contrast, the Ford Foundation has severed all direct links with the Ford family.

However, the Grand Marquis remained in production ; in contrast to the Dodge Charger selling nearly as well as its Chrysler 300 counterpart, the Montego sold only a fraction in comparison to its Ford Five Hundred counterpart and was also outsold by the Grand Marquis as well.

At the end of the trip he wrote, " the atmosphere of freedom and security, shop meetings with their proletarian industrial democracy ; all these things make an inspiring contrast to what we know as Ford wage slaves in Detroit.

In contrast to armchair detectives such as Dr. Gideon Fell or Hercule Poirot, Chief of Police Frank W. Ford and his men never hold back information from the reader.

" In contrast to the Vauxhall and Ford, the Citroen's suspension failed to absorb surface abrasions which " generate high-frequency agitation and knobbliness ".

The Mazda 323 and 626, were assembled alongside the almost identical Ford Laser and Telstar until well into the 1990s, in contrast to Australia, where Mazdas were not assembled locally, and Ford had switched to importing those models from Japan.

In the United States, this was in direct contrast to the domestic car production around the same time, where there was a very small performance aftermarket for domestic compact and economy cars ; the focus was instead on sporty cars such as the Ford Mustang and Chevrolet Corvette, or on classic muscle cars.

In contrast to Chrysler, Ford used a rear-wheel drive layout with the Aerostar ; this provided it with the same tow rating as the GM minivans, 2½ times the capacity of the Chrysler vans.

This drivetrain still has most of typical features of its predecessor including belt-driven SOHC valve train with rocker arms and mechanically adjusted screws ( in contrast to frequently mismatched, absolutely different Ford Duratorq ZSD or PSA DW10 engines ).

By contrast, Ford Model Ts were selling for $ 440 in 1915.

This is in contrast to vehicles with several automatics from Ford and Borg-Warner, which start out in second rather than first if the Second position is selected.

When introduced on upper-level Chevrolet models in 1950, the Power Glide represented the first automatic transmission offered in a low-priced automobile ; in contrast, Ford did not offer their automatic transmission until 1951, while Plymouth car buyers had to wait until 1954.

By contrast, the Ford Model F was US $ 2000, the FAL US $ 1750, the Cole 30 and Colt Runabout each US $ 1500, the Oakland 40 US $ 1600, and the Enger 40 US $ 2000, while the high-volume Oldsmobile Runabout ran US $ 650, Western's Gale Model A US $ 500 and the Brush Runabout was US $ 485.

Although Ford did not invent the automobile, he developed and manufactured the first automobile that many middle class Americans could afford to buy.

In Australian English, the term van is commonly used to describe a minivan, a passenger minibus, or an Australian panel van as manufactured by companies such as Holden and Ford at various times.

" The Ford Prefect was, in fact, a British car manufactured from 1938 to 1961.

* Ford Escort ( Europe ), a vehicle manufactured by Ford Motor Company's European division from 1968 through 2003

* Ford Escort ( North America ), a compact car that was manufactured by the Ford Motor Company for the North American market

The Ford Mustang is an automobile manufactured by the Ford Motor Company.

During World War 2 Ford built a glider factory which manufactured more than 4, 000 wooden frame Waco gliders for the US military.

The Ford Taurus is an automobile manufactured by the Ford Motor Company in the United States.

Early airplanes with closed cockpits include the 1924 Fokker tri-motor, the 1926 German Junkers W. 34 transport, the 1926 Ford Tri-Motor, the 1927 Lockheed Vega, the Spirit of St. Louis and the passenger aircraft manufactured by the Douglas and Boeing companies during the mid-1930s.

The Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan houses a Watt rotative engine manufactured in 1788 by Charles Summerfield.

The Ford Anglia is a British car designed and manufactured by Ford in the United Kingdom.

The Edsel is an automobile that was manufactured by the Ford Motor Company during the 1958, 1959, and 1960 model years.

Reliant's expertise in the area of composite car body production has also seen the company produce lightweight body shells for Ford RS200 rally cars and a glass fibre-bodied taxi, the MetroCab — the first to have full wheelchair provision, manufactured by a division of Kamkorp.

The Ford Cortina had been manufactured in saloon and estate bodystyles but after the switch to the Sierra, combined with the redesign of the Escort to Mark III level in 1980 and the introduction of the Granada Mark III in 1985, Ford had changed its saloon-based line-up into a hatchback-based one.

Autokraft manufactured an AC 289 continuation car from 1982 as the Autokraft Mk IV, basically a Mk III with a Ford V8 and Borg Warner T5 Transmission.

* Ford EXP, a car manufactured in the 1980s

The Ford Crown Victoria ( or simply Crown Vic ) is a rear-wheel drive full-size sedan that was marketed and manufactured by Ford Motor Company ; it was produced from the 1992 to the 2012 model years over two generations.