Inside the Ford/Firestone Fight

In the most spectacular corporate crack-up in recent memory, consumers hardly knew whom to trust or root for last week. First, Bridgestone/Firestone CEO John...

Tired Of Each Other

In the most spectacular corporate crack-up in recent memory, consumers hardly knew whom to trust or root for last week. First, Bridgestone/Firestone CEO John...

Driving Force: Henry Ford

The only time I ever met Henry Ford, he looked at me and probably wondered, "Who is this little s.o.b. fresh out of college?" He wasn't real big on college...

Vrooom At The Top

"Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black," decreed an entrepreneur named Henry Ford in 1909. Nowadays shoppers...

Ford Zooms into the Fast Lane

Bold but risky, its new European styling just might pay off Only two years ago, Ford seemed to be racing Chrysler toward the bankruptcy courts. Between 1980...

Business: Trouble in the House of Ford

One of Henry II's attackers teams with a nephew For 34 years Henry Ford II has been the driving force behind the Ford Motor Co. Since he took control of the then...

Business: Upheaval in the House of Ford

A bruising battle ends with the dramatic firing of an industry titan Power struggles are nothing new at Ford Motor Co., but the one that climaxed last week was...

Business: Ford's Touch of Chrysler Flu

A job for Henry II's successor It was a poignant milestone in automotive history. Last weekend movers cleared out the four-room, twelfth-floor corner suite in...

Henry Ford II: 1917-1987: My Name Is on the Building

As the grandson of the founder of the Ford Motor Co., Henry Ford II bore one of the most powerful names in American business. He used it wisely to save the...

Executive Suite: A Car Buff Takes the Wheel

In one of the most striking design shifts in modern automotive history, Ford Motor two years ago traded in its boxy styling for the rounded forms of its...