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		<title><![CDATA[Ford's Electric Car...Built on the SUV Line]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Itâ€™s a sign of the times. Fordâ€™s new Focus-based electric vehicle EV, will be built in a Wayne, Michigan factory that once built nothing but SUVsâ€"and supplied half of Fordâ€™s worldwide profits.    The Focus itself was designed in Europe and will debut in 2011. Itâ€™s a world...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 14:15:54 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Ford August sales skid 26 percent]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[CHICAGO AFP &#8212; Ford Motor Co. said Wednesday its August US sales slid 26.6 percent from a year ago, citing a "weak economy" and sluggish demand for large trucks and sport utility vehicles.  The number two US automaker said it sold 155,690 vehicles from its domestic nameplates and the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Ford truck plant to become small-car factory]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[DETROIT -- Ford Motor said Tuesday that it's spending $75million to turn a Michigan truck plant into a small-vehicle factory to meet growing demand for small cars.     Ford, which lost $8.6billion in the first half of 2008, has seen sales fall 14.1% through the end of...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Ford US sales slid 15 percent in July]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[CHICAGO AFP &#8212; Ford Motor Co. said Friday its US sales slid 14.9 percent in July compared with a year ago as sport-utility vehicles SUVs and truck sales slumped amid high fuel prices.  The country's second-largest automaker predicted that ongoing tough conditions in the domestic auto market would only...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Ford sales slide 28 percent in June]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[CHICAGO AFP &#8212; Ford Motor Co. said Tuesday its US sales tumbled 28.1 percent in June compared with a year ago with sport utility vehicle sales skidding over 50 percent.  The number two US automaker said weak consumer confidence had dented overall sales and the surge in fuel costs...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[More drivers shift from thirsty trucks: dealers overrun with trade-ins as fuel costs rise]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In America, bigger has always been better: a big house and a big vehicle mean big money; and big money equals big success.  But lately, as drivers cringe at gas-pump prices, they look at their trucks and SUVs with a little less pride and a lot more worry. ...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Ford cuts sales view, delays new pickup 2 months]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[DETROIT -- Faced with a continuing plunge in pickup truck and sport utility vehicle sales, Ford Motor Co. on Friday tried to deal with the mess by delaying production of the new F-150 pickup truck and announcing further factory cuts.   Shortly after Ford's announcement, Standard & Poor's Ratings...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Ford curbs truck output in shift to more fuel-efficient cars]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[CHICAGO AFP &#8212; Ford Motor Co. announced plans Friday to cut back further on North American production of big trucks and sport utility vehicles to adapt to a consumer shift to more fuel-efficient cars.  The sputtering US automaker said its move "responds to the continued deterioration in the US...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Dow below 12,000 as auto woes hammer market]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK AFP &#8212; US stocks took a beating Friday as renewed worries about the auto sector accelerated a decline in a market already fretting over the troubled financial sector and rising oil prices.  The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed below 12,000 points for the first time since March,...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Ford Idling SUV Plant in Michigan for Nine Weeks as It Evaluates Future of Truck and SUV Production, an Industrial Info News Alert]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas) -- For the first time since 1992, Ford Motor Company's (NYSE:F) (Dearborn, Michigan) best-selling F-150 pickup truck was outsold -- and not just by one car, either. Four different cars outsold the truck. In May, Ford's pickup sales dropped 31%, allowing Toyota...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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