Ford posts surprise quarterly profit

The US car company reports a $2.3bn second-quarter net profit after boosting global market share

Slash rates, save car plants: the arguments against

Experts are agreed on the way out of the crisis - hence the Fed's rate cut. They could be wrong

GM, Ford, Chrysler: a nationalisation too far?

Nationalising the big three would leave the US with a social security nightmare

Picture Past: June 16, 1903, Ford in Detroit

1903: the Ford Motor Company's first mass production car plant opened in Detroit