Ford has drawn on the latest European design trends with its new luxury concept car, tempting the driver with a quilted cream-coloured Nappa leather interior to complement its chrome and mocha-...
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- Oct 3, 2013
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Ford Motor Company
Founded by Henry Ford in 1903, Ford is the second biggest US carmaker. It weathered the Great Depression intact, but only survived the Global Financial Crisis by raising more than US$20 billion in cash and mortgaging its trademark blue oval. It was the only major US carmaker to avoid a US government bailout.
23 May 2013
Three former Ford Motor executives were charged with crimes against humanity for allegedly targeting Argentinian union workers for kidnapping and torture after the country's 1976 military coup.
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9 Oct 2012
Chelsia Lau Ka-po always liked drawing. When she was a little girl on Lantau, she used to get out her crayons and display her pictures in her parents' restaurant, in Mui Wo.
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16 Aug 2012
China's budding car export trade suffered a setback yesterday when an Australian distributor recalled 21,500 vehicles made by mainland carmaker Great Wall Motor and another 2,250 Chery Automobile...
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18 Jul 2012
Ford is to build a US$760 million assembly plant in Hangzhou, doubling its passenger car capacity in China to 1.2 million units a year by 2015.
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10 May 2012
Sport utility vehicles continued to fuel growth in China's car market as sales jumped 33.6 per cent year on year to 156,500 last month - the biggest increase among all car types.
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Ford Motor is planning a dim sum bond issue worth 500 million yuan (HK$612 million) in Hong Kong to raise funds for its mainland expansion, a person familiar with the offering said.
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Sales of cars on the mainland continued to grow at a slow and steady single-digit pace last month, according to preliminary figures.
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'Good design derives from observing the people and environment around us,' says Lantau-born Chelsia Lau, chief designer, China/Asean Programmes, Asia Pacific and Africa, at Ford Motor.
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