New wagon takes Ford to $186m nine-year high - Ford Forums

Curls · 05-17-2005, 21:58

From today's THE AGE re Ford's record profit

http://www.theage.com.au/news/Business/New-wagon-takes-Ford-to-186m-nineyear-high/2005/05/17/1116095960989.html

so now they have the money please paint the back of the factory.....or build Tdi and XRT versions of the Territory.

Nobby · 05-18-2005, 20:11

So...
186M / 1150M = .16

So Ford AU accounts for 16% of Ford Globals total profits. Not bad going for only 20 million people (plus a kiwis and south africans).

gz1 · 05-19-2005, 02:15

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Originally Posted by Nobby

So...
186M / 1150M = .16

So Ford AU accounts for 16% of Ford Globals total profits. Not bad going for only 20 million people (plus a kiwis and south africans).

So what that tells me is that Ford are puting on a much bigger margin here than they are overseas.