The domestics suffer from hardening of the arteries in their design departments and are turning out well-executed but boring cars and trucks.

Ford would welcome the cash for liquidity purposes, to help provide for large unfunded pension liabilities and for research and development.

They made history for themselves. We had strength in depth in the Eighties, top-flight players on the bench. Now, we only have four Premiership players in the squad, and two are goalkeepers.

It's a footnote, ... I think it's a minor help to Ford's cash position. I suppose anytime you get about a quarter of a billion dollars it's welcome, but it doesn't change the big picture.

I don't want to say anything.

Sales of gas-inefficient large SUVs are in a state of near-collapse this month, ... It seems likely that the shift in the sales mix away from large SUVs will persist and continue to damage Detroit's profit margins in the process.

They have liquidity and borrowing power, ... I don't think it's necessary or even wise to solve their problems by going Chapter 11, and they don't have to.

Ford is in the intolerable position of having too many plants and too many people, ... Cost cutting needs to come before the end of the year -- layoffs, plant closings, that sort of ugly stuff.

The MHRA is funded 100% by the industry.