The Ford Story - The New American Road - Documentary

The Ford Motor Company (typically described as just Ford) is an American multinational car manufacturer headquartered in Dearborn, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit. It was started by Henry Ford and integrated on June 16, 1903. The company markets cars as well as advertisement cars under the Ford brand name and most luxury cars under the Lincoln brand name. Ford also has Brazilian SUV producer, Troller, as well as Australian performance automobile maker FPV. In the past it has actually additionally created tractors and automobile components. Ford owns a 2.1 % stake in Mazda of Japan, an 8 % stake in Aston Martin of the United Kingdom, as well as a 49 % stake in Jiangling of China. It additionally has a number of joint-ventures, two in China (Changan Ford Mazda and also Ford Lio Ho), one in Thailand (AutoAlliance Thailand), one in Turkey (Ford Otosan), as well as one in Russia (Ford Sollers). It is specified on the New York Stock Exchange as well as is regulated by the Ford family, although they have minority possession. Ford presented approaches for massive production of cars and large-scale administration of a commercial labor force utilizing elaborately engineered production sequences epitomized by relocating assembly lines; by 1914 these techniques were known all over the world as Fordism. Ford's former UK subsidiaries Jaguar and Land Rover, acquired in 1989 as well as 2000 specifically, were sold to Tata Motors in March 2008. Ford had the Swedish car manufacturer Volvo from 1999 to 2010. In 2011, Ford ceased the Mercury brand name, under which it had marketed entry-level luxury cars in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and the Middle East because 1938.