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Michael Martinez

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5 years

BREAKING: @Ford plans to build respirators, ventilators & face shields in Michigan in partnership with the UAW, GE Healthcare & 3M. Some details: -1,000 respirators per month, using F-150 seat fans, portable battery packs & 3D printed parts -100,000 face shields per week

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Per a Ford source, the union asked Ford this afternoon for a meeting at 5:30 p.m. today with a new economic counteroffer. When Ford said it did not have one, Shawn Fain stood up & said “You just lost Kentucky Truck.” The meeting took about 10 minutes.

UAW expands strike to Ford's Kentucky Truck Plant, adding 8,700 workers to picket lines

The union announced the walkout, effective immediately, late Wednesday on social media, saying Ford "refuses to make further movement in bargaining."

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Here’s what the @Ford -owned Michigan Central Station currently looks like in support of the @Lions

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STORY:

Ford partnering with GE, 3M to build ventilators, respirators, face shields

The automaker said it will use fans from the seats of F-150s and portable battery packs to build up to 1,000 respirators per month. It's also planning to make 100,000 face masks per week and to help...

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“Our customers told us they want something modern and advanced, but did not want their truck to look like a doorstop or a spaceship.” Cc: @elonmusk #F150Lightning

Ford F-150 Lightning padded with content, bold pricing for around $40K

The automaker hopes to win over skeptics and speed up EV adoption among retail and commercial buyers by electrifying the nation's bestselling vehicle, while making it the most powerful F-150.

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8 years

Star power: @Porsche brings @MariaSharapova & @PatrickDempsey to its Panamara & 911 RSR debut at the #LAautoshow

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UAW President Shawn Fain just read lines from Stellantis's early bargaining proposals and then chucked them in a trash can.

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6 years

The @Ford -owned Michigan Central Station tonight is displaying the Detroit city motto, which translates: “We hope for better things; it shall arise from the ashes.”

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Just got a tour of @Ford ’s new Rouge Electric Vehicle Center, where workers are building the 1st preproduction models of the F-150 Lightning

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3 years

Scoop: @Ford is giving dealers the option to build standalone Bronco stores to showcase its new SUV apart from the Ford & Lincoln brands. ➡️ STORY & PHOTOS:

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. @Ford 's about 14 hours away from potentially dealing with strikes in two countries at the same time.

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Unifor prepared for 'all scenarios, including strike' as Ford talks drag, deadline nears

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🚨 Ford & the UAW could announce a tentative agreement as early as this evening, per a source. Ford is willing to accept the union's demand for a 25% wage increase.

UAW calls off strike against Ford after tentative contract reached with 25% raises

If ratified, the deal would provide roughly 57,000 hourly workers with 25 percent raises over four years and bring an end to a 6-week-old strike.

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5 years

Bill Ford just now on the Today Show : "We were the arsenal of democracy during two world wars. We built iron lungs for polio patients. Whenever we're called on, we're there."

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BREAKING: @Ford will spend $7B, part of a larger $11.4B project w/ SK Innovation, to build 2 campuses in TN & KY that will create 11k new jobs & involve electric vehicle and battery production. Ford says it’s the largest single manufacturing investment in its 118-year history.

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7 years

On this day 114 years ago, @Ford Motor Co. was founded.

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BREAKING: @Ford , partnering with @GEHealthcare , will build 50,000 ventilators in Michigan by July 4, starting next month: -500 paid @UAW volunteers working on 3 shifts at its Rawsonville Components Plant starting week of April 20 -1,500 built by end of April -12k by end of May

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Ford had been operating with the understanding that it already had the best economic offer on the table and was instead spending the week focusing on issues like battery plants & retirement security, the source said.

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Meet the 2021 @Ford Bronco & Bronco Sport. 25 years after ceding the market to rivals like Jeep, Ford hopes these vehicles will set the new benchmark for off-road utilities. STORY:

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Scoop: @Ford sent a letter to Texas dealers this afternoon asking them to loan out 2021 F-150s with on-board generators to help power homes & businesses. Ford says it has 415 trucks available to help & is altering its loaner program to make it happen

Ford asks Texas dealers to loan out F-150s with generators during outages

The company is offering dealers bonus money to lend trucks with the Pro Power Onboard feature so people can use them to power homes after an unusual spate of winter weather that has crippled utilit...

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1 year

UAW President Shawn Fain, in Lansing, tells @LindsayVanHulle he got an email from Stellantis "roughly 3 minutes before we were going live" at 10 a.m. with an updated offer, which kept them off today's strike list. "When we make progress, we honor our word." 📸 by Jack Hallauer

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4 years

. @Ford is illuminating the Michigan Central Station tonight in Detroit as part of @PresElectBiden ’s national memorial honoring those lost to COVID-19.

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3 years

Pleasant interaction between CEOs of @Ford & @Tesla :

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Breaking: @Ford CEO Jim Farley & Executive Chair Bill Ford told employees in a letter this morning the automaker is eliminating 3,000 jobs globally (2,000 salaried and 1,000 agency positions). Affected employees in the U.S., Canada & India will be notified this week.

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3 years

Anyone who’s spent 10 seconds with @tkrisher knows how much of a talented, fair and smart journalist he is. This is absolute garbage.

Elon Musk

@elonmusk

3 years

@WholeMarsBlog @tkrisher He’s actually a lobbyist, not a journalist. There are many who pose as the latter while behaving like the former. No integrity. Indeed, there were no safety issues. The car simply slowed to ~2 mph & continued forward if clear view with no cars or pedestrians.

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Wow. Ford brings back the ORIGINAL 1968 Mustang Bullitt

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🚨 For the first time, @Ford 's electric Mustang Mach-E outsold the gas-powered Mustang. June U.S. sales: -Mustang: 2,240 -Mustang Mach-E: 2,465

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Here’s where @Ford later tonight will reveal the #MustangMachE A not-so-subtle message to the company next door. (2nd pic from ‘15 @AINOnline article)

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Days after the @UAW won tentative deals with the Detroit 3, nonunion Toyota says it's boosting top pay to $34.80 per hour, cutting wage progression to 4 years from 8 & is increasing PTO for all employees. Per @LarryVellequett :

Nonunion Toyota boosts hourly wages 9.2%, cuts progression time as UAW votes await

Toyota Motor North America told its nonunion production workers Tuesday that the company was boosting hourly wages in its plants, distribution and logistics centers to $34.80, effective Jan. 1,...

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Scoop: @Tesla told CARB the Cybertruck will "very likely" be a Class 2B-3 medium-duty pickup. Why's that important? @elonmusk likes to say Cybertruck is better than F-150. But it would be in the F-250's class, & it does not stack up in towing & payload.

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. @Ford is also looking into this: “We have have had preliminary discussions with the U.S. governments and are looking into the feasibility. It’s vital that we all pull together to help the country weather this crisis and come out the other side stronger than ever.”

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GM is exploring the possibility of putting its manufacturing muscle toward medical equipment to help treat the novel coronavirus.

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. @Ford CEO Jim Farley, speaking at an energy conference about the F-150 Lightning (& F-150 hybrid) that can double as a mobile generators, says "I think we'll make most of our vehicles bi-directional."

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Per a source, @Ford ’s projecting this on its Dearborn HQ ahead of the #F150Lightning reveal Wednesday night:

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Scoop: Ford will sell partially built vehicles awaiting chips or related components that control non-safety critical features, it told dealers today. Dealers will get the missing chips within 1 year to install on the already-sold vehicles, Ford said.

Ford will ship and sell vehicles without chips controlling non-safety critical features

Executives on Saturday told dealers Ford would provide the missing parts for dealers to install within one year.

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3 years

. @Ford CEO Jim Farley speaking to @CNBC 's Jim Cramer about F-150 Lightning capacity: "We don't want to build these vehicles in tents, we want to build them [at the Rouge]." (cc: @Tesla )

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2 years

Breaking: @Ford announces it's increasing Mustang Mach-E prices between $3,000 and $8,100, depending on trim, as order banks re-open. It's also increasing shipping costs by $200 on all models. Here's the breakdown:

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5 years

Here are some sketches, via @Ford , of its makeshift respirator design that includes fans from F-150 seats, hoods from factory paint shops and other automotive parts.

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. @Ford ’s clebrating the 10 millionth @FordMustang today. Here’s the 10,000,000th pony car alongside VIN No. 1 from 1964.

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BREAKING: @UAW declares a strike against @GM for the first time since 2007. Story coming to @Automotive_News

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@jrjohnraeder @ZerlinaMaxwell @Ford That's the initial number, but they say they'll "quickly grow production as fast as possible"

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Bronco will come with roughly 200 accessories at launch & will be highly customizable. Chief Designer Paul Wraith: “With one hour and a wrench, you can strip this truck almost down to its bare bones and replace or upgrade different components.”

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6 years

9 months after promising dealers it would bring back suicide doors on the Continental, Lincoln on Monday confirmed the vehicles will be in showrooms next summer as part of a very limited run for the nameplate's 80th anniversary.

Limited run of suicide-door Lincoln Continentals coming next summer

It's an effort by executives to leverage the brand's glory years and spark interest in a vehicle whose U.S. sales have fallen drastically despite re-entering the market just over two years ago.

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5 years

Bill Ford says @Ford is doing this on its own, despite President Trump saying in a tweet he had given the automakers the go-ahead to act. "We were getting all this in motion before that."

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4 years

Incoming Ford CEO Jim Farley: "We know our competition today. It's Amazon, Baidu, Tesla, Apple and others."

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3 years

The 1st production Mavericks have reached dealers. @Ford says it’s already sold two: One in Arkansas and one in Texas. Here’s a couple shots of Maverick on display at Ford’s Motor Bella exhibit:

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NEWS: @Ford poaches former @Tesla engineering director Alan Clarke. He'll work in advanced EV development and report to Doug Field.

Ford poaches former Tesla engineering director Alan Clarke

Alan Clarke, a 12-year Tesla veteran, will work in Ford's advanced EV development department and report to Doug Field, a former Tesla and Apple engineer who Ford hired in September.

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4 years

. @Ford ’s wasting no time publicly testing the new Bronco Sport after last week’s reveal. My aunt spotted this Big Bend trim parked tonight in her neighborhood.

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3 years

Stand by for some Ford news.

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6 years

Tonight’s @Ford train station message, courtesy of a @Freep article following its closure:

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3 years

Not sure what Elon meant when he said vehicle production constraints were a "logistics problem that makes World War II look trivial.” But I figured it’d be worth it to point out the following:

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2 years

Spent the morning at @Ford ’s archives learning about the history of @LincolnMotorCo . Pretty impressive collection of vehicles & other original materials.

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3 years

Happy Friday! Here’s some Mustang Mach-E GT photos from this week’s media drive:

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1 year

Doug Field sharing some new details on Ford EVs. Says a 3-row family SUV is coming in 2025 with a 350-mile range. He likened it to an Expedition.

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The cheapest option in @Ford ’s lineup is now a pickup. Meet the 2022 Maverick, which comes standard with a hybrid engine & a “flexbed” full of unique features meant to make hauling more efficient. STORY:

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Jim Farley to the @WSJ on Tesla & Elon Musk: "There’s no doubt about it, the demand for Tesla is changing & in some sense is deteriorating." Questioned whether product was getting old "or is it his brand?" "I can't tell yet but it looks like there’s something going on."

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4 years

There’s noticeable lightening on the back of the @Ford -owned Michigan Central Station as restoration work continues

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3 years

I’ll be breaking some @Ford news tomorrow morning (in advance of our 4/12 print edition), so please consider this your official invitation to Stay Tuned and/or Watch This Space.

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9 years

. @POTUS is having lunch at Jolly Pumpkin in Midtown with @MayorMikeDuggan

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3 years

New: @Ford is upping its investment in electrification to more than $30 billion through 2025, says 40% of global volume will be fully-electric by 2030. Also says it has 70,000 reservations for #F150Lightning

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6 years

ON THIS DAY in 1964, @Ford debuted a two-door sports car named after a WWII fighter plane at the New York World's Fair.

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5 years

Breaking: The Detroit auto show has been canceled, and re-scheduled for June 2021. The TCF Center will be converted into a field hospital as the coronavirus pandemic worsens.

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In a demo to show how strong the glass is, Franz broke the glass. Twice. "We'll fix it in post," @elonmusk said.

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Ford CEO Jim Farley: "We're in a totally unique position to dominate the light-duty commercial vehicle business.”

Automotive News

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Ford E-Transit orders hit 10,000; Walmart among customers

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J.P. Morgan investor note headline: "We were thoroughly impressed by our test drive of Ford's Mustang Mach-E & see negative implications for Tesla valuation" They go on to say "Ford is showing more & more signs of becoming a credible contender in battery electric vehicles."

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. @Ford Executive Chairman Bill Ford: "We put as much care and attention into developing our plan to return to work as anything I've been involved in in my 40 years of work."

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4 years

Clever design on today’s @freep front page:

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2 years

Here’s a couple shots from this week’s F-150 Lightning media drive, including a @jefferygilbert cameo demonstrating the frunk’s luggage capacity.

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4 years

EXCLUSIVE: Tesla CEO Elon Musk says he has a “fallback strategy” if Cybertruck flops. “If it turns out nobody wants to buy a weird-looking truck, we'll build a normal truck, no problem.”

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1 year

Here is what the @UAW is demanding from @Ford , @GM and @Stellantis during 2023 contract negotiations, per UAW President Shawn Fain:

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5 years

On a conference call, @Ford 's Jim Baumbick said the effort to build ventilators, respirators & face shields quickly is known internally as "Project Apollo," after the Apollo 13 mission. "All of that inspired us to get scrappy."

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5 years

. @Ford spokesman's response ⤵️

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FIRST LOOK: @Ford 's plans for the Michigan Central Station -4-year renovation -Public concourse with retail/restaurants -Office space for autonomous vehicle development; room for partners -2,500 total Ford employees, room for 5,000

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Senator @ewarren just marched on the picket line with @UAW workers at Detroit-Hamtramck “ @GM is demonstrating it has no loyalty to the workers of America or the people of America.”

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Hau Thai-Tang, Ford's head of product development & purchasing, posted on LinkedIn earlier tonight a screenshot of a thank you post from an ER doctor at Detroit's Sinai Grace Hospital after the company delivered 1,250 face shields. Slightly more than the 1,000 it promised today

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Breaking: @Ford to offer up to 6 months of payment relief for most new vehicle customers. It will pay the first 3 months while allowing you to defer another 3 months. It's also rewarding dealers for delivering vehicles instead of making customers come to the dealership.

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4 years

Statement from @Ford Executive Chairman Bill Ford & CEO @jimfarley98 :

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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ @HenryEPayne reviews the Ford Focus RS:

Payne: Focus RS is Ford’s Golf R-killer

With the AWD Focus RS, Ford finally has a hot hatch worthy to take on the best from VW

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. @Ford CEO Jim Farley on dealing with dealers who place significant markups on new vehicles: "It's an inefficiency, no doubt about it."

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@_vibrantlife @WillieGeist @Ford Still waiting on details. For the face shields, Ford said the first 1,000 will be tested this week & roughly 75,000 are expected to be finished this week.

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Here’s @Ford ’s statement on the passage of the bipartisan infrastructure bill:

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4 years

Got to drive the Mustang Mach-E today. More on that in mid-December. For now, here are some photos

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Matthew McConaughey sighting at Lincoln’s EV concept reveal:

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Adam Jonas on @Ford ’s Capital Markets Day: “Highly encouraging to see a coherent strategy under world class management.”

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. @Chevrolet turned its brilliant Prince tweet into a full-page color ad in today's @detroitnews & @freep

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. @Ford CFO John Lawler says the company has between 60,000-70,000 unfinished vehicles on lots waiting for chips/related components. It expects to "work through a majority" of those by the end of this quarter.

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Breaking: The past two leaders of the @UAW are now admitted felons. Ex-President Dennis Williams just pleaded guilty to embezzling union funds. He is the 15th person to plead guilty in an ongoing federal corruption probe, including his successor as president, Gary Jones.

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New: @Ford CEO Jim Farley says the company is working on an EV Explorer

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. @Ford is increasing its spending on electrification to $22 billion through 2025. It had previously pledged to spend $11.5 billion through 2022. CFO John Lawler says a "majority" of that spend will be dedicated to battery-electric vehicles.

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Breaking: Ex-UAW President Gary Jones sentenced to 28 months in federal prison, becoming the 2nd-consecutive union leader headed behind bars. Prosecutors had called for a 28-month sentence.

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1 year

Another trash can appearance as @UAW President Shawn Fain blasts @Ford for proposals he says "insults our very worth."

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3 years

What makes this plant unique for @Ford is that there are no fixed assembly lines — parts are carried from one spot to the next by these yellow automated robots

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. @Ford CEO Jim Farley says "this year is about execution," echoing former CEO Jim Hackett, who called 2019 a "year of execution." When Hackett was hired in 2017, Bill Ford told @detroitnews Ford had to "sharpen our execution." On an unrelated note, today is Groundhog Day.

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5 years

Ever want to eat seafood out of your car? @Ford thinks you do. Here's some frunk shrimp:

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3 years

Lincoln at the Shanghai Auto Show revealed a "preview" version of the Zephyr Reflection sedan for China, ahead of the production model's debut later this year. Alas, not bound for the U.S.

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BREAKING: Bill Ford is deferring 100% of his salary for at least five months. CEO Jim Hackett, COO Jim Farley & CFO Tim Stone will defer 50% of their salaries over that same period.

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Bill Ford says the ongoing strike is harming the American economy and hurting local communities. “We can stop this now,” he said. “We need to come together to bring an end to this acrimonious round of talks.”

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4 years

A heartfelt message from @jimfarley98 to Ford employees posted earlier today:

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Breaking: @Ford is investing $1 billion over the next 5 years in Argo AI to develop a virtual driver system for its 2021 autonomous car.

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Face shield production numbers from a @Ford spokesman ⤵️

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Exclusive: Within 24 months, @Ford intends to produce 600,000 EVs globally per year & become the No. 2 EV-maker in the US, CEO @jimfarley98 tells @Automotive_News

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Bill Ford: "Toyota, Honda, Tesla and others are loving this strike because they know the longer it goes on, the better it is for them. They will win, and all of us will lose."

Bill Ford: Future of auto industry at stake in 'acrimonious' UAW negotiations

Following Bill Ford's remarks, the UAW said, 'Bill Ford knows exactly how to settle this strike. ... He should call up Jim Farley, tell him to stop playing games and get a deal done.'

www.autonews.com

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