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All About Cars
2013 Kia Soul Plus: Urban vehicle is punctuated with styleKia upgrades to a compact,
but roomy, hatchback.■
By Mike BlAkeCarlisle events
Kia’s hip, cool hatchback, the Soul, is back for 2013 with new exterior accents and interior upgrades. It builds on its urban passen-ger vehicle appeal, punctu-ated with economy and ver-satility.
Employing its unique ap-proach to trim levels by us-ing punctuation, 2013 Soul is available in Base Soul, + (Plus) and ! (Exclaim) trims. Kia is also cutting-edge with its exterior color names, as available paint includes: red-hot molten; alien green; moss; dune; clear white; and metallic tones of shadow, ti-tanium and bright silver.
For 2013, my test Soul + (Plus) trim upgrades the Base Soul from 15-inch steel wheels to 16-inch alloy wheels, and adds dual body-color heated power mirrors with integrated turn signals, tweeter speakers, rear door map pockets with bottle holder, leather-wrapped steering wheel and gear shift knobs, Soul logo inserts on seats, metal finish trim on instrument panel, door pan-els and inside door handles, dual visor vanity mirrors with cover, upper instru-ment panel storage bin with cover and center console with armrest and storage.
Out-of-the-box stylingThe compact hatchback
received a major refreshen-ing last year, and builds on its popularity for its out-of-the-box styling, perfor-mance and economy with such additions as power-
folding outside mirrors for the ! (Exclaim) trim, re-styled badges and standard Bluetooth Connectivity.
Soul’s creative design in-corporates Kia’s corporate Tiger Nose grille, a low, wide stance, angled window line and rounded nose. Its sub-tle wedge shape is forward-moving, and body-color door handles, body-side moldings, variable inter-mittent wipers, rear wip-er/washer, roof-mounted antenna and privacy glass combine with its chrome accented grille, which is darkened for a contempo-rary look, to create a trendy and fun-looking five-door.
S e t o n a 1 0 0. 4 - i n c h wheelbase, Soul measures 162.2 inches long, 70.3 inch-es wide and 63.4 inches high with a ground clearance of 6.5 inches, to weigh in with a curb weight of 2778 pounds.
economy-minded engines
Soul offers two engine choices. The Base model is outfitted with a direct in-jection 1.6-liter engine and the punctuated trims as was my test + (Plus) are pow-ered by a multi-point fuel injection 2.0-liter inline-4 engine coupled with an au-tomatic 6-speed transmis-sion. The 1.6-liter in-line 4 engine puts out 138 horse-power and 123 pounds-feet of torque and is estimated at 27 mpg in the city and 35 on the highway, while the 2.0-liter I-4 delivers 164 horse-power and 148 pounds-feet of torque and has an EPA rating of 26/34. My week of mixed-use tests achieved an average of 33 mpg.
At less than 3,000 pounds, the 164 horses and consis-tent torque give the Soul ample muscle to overcome long inclines and move con-fidently past slower vehicles. Soul is gentle on cruises and while the independent front
suspension with MacPher-son struts, stabilizer bar, gas-filled shock absorbers and a torsion beam rear with gas-filled shock absorbers didn’t exactly pamper the hatchback’s occupants over pock-marked and irregular surfaces, there is little sway or float in smooth high-speed straight-line driving.
Rack-and-pinion elec-tric power steering is re-liable and tight and only understeers when quick auto-crosslike maneuvers are made. The wide stance makes for a confident de-meanor with very little no-ticeable roof sway.
Fo u r - c y l i n d e r c o m -pact hatchbacks are sel-dom thought of as quick, and while Soul won’t blaze down the dragstrip, it does perform boldly and my test + (Plus) model acquitted it-self well with an 8.4-second dash from zero-to-60 mph and a quarter-mile trek in 16.5.
Roomy, tech-filled interior
Inside, Soul provides a roomy 40.2 inches of front head room with 39.6 inch-es in row two; legroom is an accommodating 42.1 inches up front and 39 inches for second-seat passengers and shoulder room is 55.2 in row one and 55.1 the rear seats.
The hip-looking cab-in is adorned with Blue-tooth wireless technology for hands-free connectiv-ity with steering wheel con-trols, power windows with driver’s one-touch auto down, power door locks, air conditioning, remote key-less entry with folding key, steering wheel mounted au-dio and cruise controls, tilt/telescopic steering wheel and a 6-way adjustable driver’s seat.
Soul’s cabin does not filter out road noise well, but it is a cool environment with good sightlines, an uncluttered dashboard with a three-dial instrument cluster , LCD illumination and floating
center stack design.
Safety features constructed and
installedSoul is safety conscious
with such features as front and rear crumple zones, side-impact door beams, impact absorbing steer-ing column, dual front ad-vanced airbags, dual front seat-mounted side airbags, full-length side curtain air-bags, front active headrests, 4-wheel disc brakes with ABS, electronic brake-force distribution, electronic sta-bility control, vehicle sta-bility management, hill-as-sist control, tire pressure monitoring system, height-adjustable front seat belt anchors, front seat belt pre-tensioners, LATCH for chil-dren and rear child safety door locks.
K ia Soul in Base trim starts at $14,400. Its other punctuation trims start at $16,700 for the + (Plus) and $19,900 for the ! (Exclaim). The Base Soul comes with a 1.6-liter GDI engine and the other trims upgrade to
the 2.0-liter 1-4. My test ride was the 2013 Kia Soul + (Plus) at $16,700 with a molten (fiery red) exterior and Black Soul logo cloth interior. The auto-dimming mirror with compass added, $275; carpeted floor mats were $115; interior lighting was $450; the rear spoil-er looked cool for $325 and destination charges added $775 for a final sticker price
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By Mike Blake
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The 2013 Kia Soul Plus is offered in cutting-edge colors with mul-tiple trim-upgrades and creative design.
Behind the Wheel
Hyundai adds new Elantra hatchbackthe elantra Gt earned five out
of five stars, overall, in federal government crash testing.
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By ANN M. JOBassoCiated Press
The new-for-2013 Hyun-dai Elantra GT hatchback is a stylish, fuel-sipping, nimble car with surprising-ly quiet interior and luxury touches that include a huge panoramic sunroof and a sliding center armrest.
Despite the name, though, this new Hyundai is not that much of a GT, or Grand Tourer, in performance.
In fact, the Elantra GT has the same 148-horsepower, naturally aspirated, four-cylinder engine that’s in the 2013 Elantra sedan.
This powerplant helps ac-count for the Elantra GT’s notable federal govern-ment fuel economy rating of 28 miles per gallon in city driving and 39 mpg on the highway for an automatic transmission model. These numbers are near the top mileage ratings among gas-oline-only-powered, five-door hatchbacks.
Best of all, the new Elantra GT, like all Hyundais, comes with a 10-year/100,000-mile powertrain warranty and a limited, bumper-to-bumper warranty for 5
years/60,000 miles.Hatchbacks typically are
priced higher than their se-dan siblings, and the Elan-tra GT five-door is no ex-ception.
Starting manufacturer’s suggested retail price, in-cluding destination charge, for a 2013 Elantra GT is $19,170 with six-speed manual transmission and $20,170 with six-speed au-tomatic.
T h i s c o m p a re s w i t h $17,590 for a base, 2013 Elantra sedan with man-ual transmission and the $18,590 starting retail price for a base, 2013 Elantra se-dan with automatic.
Still, the Elantra GT has starting retail prices that are lower than major hatchback competitors’.
For example, the 2013 Ford Focus starts at $19,995 with five-speed manual transmission and $21,090 with six-speed automatic, while the 2013 Volkswagen Golf starts at $20,590 for a five-door model with six-speed automatic transmis-sion.
Arguably, all hatchbacks have a flowing side profile. But the Elantra GT’s sweep-
ing lines emanate from the same Hyundai Fluidic Sculpture design that made the Hyundai Sonata a U.S. sales winner.
Also, the Elantra GT was designed for Europe, so some people see it as a Eu-ropean-looking car.
Driving the Elantra GT test car was pleasant, with the car unusually quiet at startup and while resting at stop lights, even though the engine stayed on the whole time.
The driver didn’t even feel vibration coming through the gear shift lever at idle, and noise from surround-ing cars was muted.
Power delivery was steady and acceptable, as the auto-matic transmission moved from gear to gear with a smoothness expected in higher-priced cars.
But pedal-to-the-metal acceleration in the Elan-tra GT carrying four adults brought some strenuous, buzzy sounds from the 1.8-liter, double overhead cam four cylinder.
Torque peaks at 131 foot-pounds at a high 4,700 rpm, so there’s not real strong “oomph” of power in many situations.
Both the Focus — with 160-horsepower four cyl-inder delivering 146 foot-pounds of torque at 4,450 rpm — and the Golf — with
170-horsepower five cyl-inder generating 177 foot-pounds of torque at 4,250 rpm — provide more power.
Yet, the higher-powered Focus has nearly the same fuel economy rating with automatic transmission — 27/38 mpg — as the Elantra GT.
Combined city/highway mileage in the test car was 32 mpg, and with regular unleaded all that’s needed, it cost just over $50 to fill the 14-gallon tank, which is 1.6 gallons larger than that in the Focus.
Underneath the rigid body, the Elantra GT uses the same front-wheel drive platform of the Elantra se-dan, but the steering and rear suspension are differ-ent.
Elantra GT’s Driver Se-lectable Steering mode put onto the power-assisted, rack-and-pinion steering came with three choices — comfort, normal and sport.
But feedback still was far off and the overall effect seemed more a gimmick than a steering enhance-ment.
Meantime, the torsion axle rear uses Sachs shock absorbers for better body control.
In the test car, body mo-tions were minimized, the car made lane changes without fuss and handled an emergency maneuver with poise and confidence.
Even better, the Elantra GT’s compact size — it’s 14 feet from bumper to bumper, which is 9 inches shorter than the Elantra se-dan — makes it easy to park and nudge into congested streets.
Note that while the El-antra GT is compact, it doesn’t feel lightweight.
There’s a nice, mostly flat rear floor with 34.6 inches of legroom, which is better than the 33.2 inches in the back seat of the Focus. The Golf has 35.5 inches of rear-seat legroom.
With rear seats folded down, cargo space in the Elantra GT expands to a generous 51 cubic feet.
Texture and appearance of the soft-touch plastic in-side the car looked upscale, and optional leather uphol-stery was supple enough it wouldn’t be confused with vinyl.
The two-part, optional panoramic sunroof is a first in the segment, Hyundai officials said, and it really lightens the interior.
Not optional is a soft-touch cover over the center storage area that doubles as an armrest. It slides for-ward and back to accom-modate both short-stature and tall drivers.
The extra large display screen in the middle of the
dashboard afforded better-than-usual views from the rearview camera.
The outside lens of this camera, by the way, is kept clean from water, snow and dirt because it only comes out from beneath the Hyundai badge on the rear liftgate when the car is shifted into reverse.
In the tester, there was a brief closing/snapping sound at the back of the car as the lens retreated inside and the badge came back down.
The Elantra GT earned five out of five stars, overall, in federal government crash testing.
All safety equipment is standard, including seven air bags. One is for the driv-er’s right knee and helps keep the driver in proper position behind the steer-ing wheel during a frontal crash.
Elantra sedans are built in an Alabama plant. Elantra GTs come from South Ko-rea.
2013 Hyundai elantra GT Auto
BASe PRiCe: $18,395 with manual transmission; $19,395 with automatic.
PRiCe AS TeSTeD: $25,365.
TyPe: Front engine, front-wheel-drive, five-passenger, compact hatchback.
eNGiNe: 1.8-liter, double overhead cam, inline four cyl-inder with d-Cvvt.
MileAGe: 28 mpg (city), 39 mpg (highway).
TOP SPeeD: na.
leNGTH: 169.3 inches.
WHeelBASe: 104.3 inches.
CURB WeiGHT: 2,959 pounds.
OPTiONS: style package (includes 17-inch alloy wheels, sport-tuned suspension, pan-oramic sunroof, leather seat surfaces, aluminum pedals, power driver’s seat with power lumbar support) $2,750; tech package (includes navigation system with rearview camera, dual, automatic temperature control, automatic headlights, proximity key with push-but-ton start) $2,350; carpeted floor mats $95.
DeSTiNATiON CHARGe: $775.
in Focus
The compact hatchback received a major refreshening
last year, and builds on its popularity for its out-of-the-
box styling, performance and economy ...
by KASIE HUNTAssociAted Press
TA M PA , F l a . — M i t t Romney came under with-ering criticism Wednes-day over his depiction of President Barack Obama’s auto industry bailout, with Vice President Joe Biden accusing him of perpetu-ating an “outrageous lie” and newspapers assailing the Republican’s advertis-ing campaign on the sub-ject. Chrysler and General Motors also have protested the ads, as the 2009 bailout was pushed to the forefront of the White House cam-paign in a key battleground just days before Tuesday’s election.
“They’re trying to scare the living devil out of a group of people who have been hurt so badly over the last previous four years be-fore we came to office,” Biden told voters in Florida, labeling the Romney com-mercials “one of the most flagrantly dishonest ads I can ever remember in my political career.”
Countering Biden, Re-publican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan, one of 32 House Republicans to vote for the auto bailout, said in a statement released by Romney’s campaign: “GM and Chrysler are ex-panding their production overseas. These are facts that voters deserve to know as they listen to the claims President Obama and his campaign are making.”
Romney’s campaign in-sists the ads are accurate.
The TV ad says: “Obama took GM and Chrysler into bankruptcy and sold Chrys-ler to Italians who are go-ing to build Jeeps in China.” And the radio ad says: “Un-der President Obama, GM cut 15,000 American jobs, but they are planning to double the number of cars built in China, which means 15,000 more jobs for Chi-na. And now comes word
that Chrysler is starting to build cars in, you guessed it, China. What happened to the promises made to autoworkers in Toledo and throughout Ohio? “
The claims are highly misleading. In fact, Chrys-ler is adding 1,100 jobs to its plant in Toledo. It’s also adding production facili-ties in China as demand for cars there grows. Because of trade rules, it’s easier for companies to build cars for the Chinese market in Chi-na. It’s also more efficient. Japanese automakers, for example, have plants in the U.S. to meet American de-mand.
For much of the race, Romney had been carefully avoiding raising the auto is-sue; aides say he was reluc-tant to give Obama’s cam-paign a bigger opportunity to remind voters about the bailouts. But advisers say that thinking has changed as Romney has looked for traction in Ohio in the race’s final days.
Last week, Romney him-self suggested on the cam-paign trail that U.S. auto giants were moving jobs to China at the expense of Ohio, citing a Bloom-berg News report that said Chrysler would move jobs to China.
“I saw a story today that one of the great manufac-turers in this state — Jeep, now owned by the Italians — is thinking of moving all production to China,” Rom-ney said Oct. 25 in Defiance, Ohio. He hasn’t repeated that claim since then.
His spokeswoman, An-drea Saul, said Wednesday that Romney was relying on an inaccurate report from Bloomberg News, and that Bloomberg had updated its story to indicate that while Chrysler did plan to manu-facture all types of its cars in China, it was expand-ing into the Asian country, not moving its operations there.
The original story, head-lined “Fiat Says China May Build All Jeeps as SUV De-mand Increases,” appeared four days before Romney made his remarks. Bloom-berg did add a clarifying sentence; the update ap-peared Oct. 22, three days before Romney referenced it.
Bloomberg, in a state-ment to The Associated Press, said neither the orig-inal story nor the update was inaccurate. “We stand by our reporting,” spokes-woman Meghan Womack said. The story also referred to Jeep models, Womack said, not all types of its cars.
The newswire did not fundamentally change its story, though it caused enough confusion that Chrysler issued a statement to clarify. Several hours be-fore Romney took the stage in Defiance, Chrysler said that “clear and accurate re-porting” had been misin-terpreted.
“The take has given birth to a number of stories mak-ing readers believe that Chrysler plans to shift all Jeep production to China from North America, and therefore idle assembly lines and U.S. workforce. It is a leap that would be dif-ficult even for professional circus acrobats,” said Gual-berto Ranieri, a Chrysler spokesman.
Saul also said that neither auto company disputed the
facts of the ad, even if they complained about becom-ing topics in the presiden-tial race.
The ads reflect Romney’s late-game effort to win a state that’s critical to his ef-fort to win the 270 electoral votes needed for victory. It’s difficult to see how he wins the White House without winning in Ohio, a state that offers 18 electoral votes and that every Republican president has won.
Over the past week, auto bailout politics have flared red hot in the state. Obama hammered Romney during the final debate last week over his opposition to the auto bailout, then renewed that criticism against Rom-ney with greater emphasis in Ohio. During that pe-riod, polls showed Rom-ney slipping in Ohio among white, working-class vot-ers, a group he has courted aggressively and who polls show have favored him in other states.
Mindful of the stakes, Romney has spent consid-erable time in Ohio during the final weeks. But Rom-ney’s internal polling still shows the race stubbornly close. Campaign aides say that’s because voters give Obama credit for rescu-ing the auto companies, which also kept dozens of parts manufacturers and other associated businesses afloat.
AutosSunday, November 4, 2012 The Sentinel • E3
Auto Sales
Most automakers report sales jumps despite stormindustry analysts estimated that
the storm cut U.s. sales by about 20,000 cars and trucks in october.
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by TOM KRISHERAssociAted Press
DETROIT — Most major automakers reported sales increases in October despite losing at least three days of business to the punishing rain and wind from Super-storm Sandy.
Toyota said its sales rose almost 16 percent for the month, while Volkswagen reported another strong month with sales up 22 per-cent. Honda sales slowed from double-digit growth earlier in the year to 8.8 per-cent, while Chrysler sales rose 10 percent. General Motors was up 5 percent and Ford rose slightly.
Of major automakers, only Nissan reported a de-crease, 3.2 percent, as Sandy pounded the Northeast, the company’s top-performing region.
Yet the results show that Americans continue to buy new cars and trucks at a strong pace. Chrysler pre-dicted an annual sales rate of 14.7 million for the U.S. in-dustry in October, making it one of the year’s strongest months. Auto sales ran at an annual rate of 14.3 million through September.
Industry analysts esti-mated that the storm cut U.S. sales by about 20,000 cars and trucks in October as buyers hunkered down
for the storm. But the Nis-san brand, which gets 27 percent of its U.S. sales from the Northeast, was hit par-ticularly hard.
“It is absolutely a hurt on us,” said Al Castignetti, vice president of the Nissan di-vision. As of Wednesday, 65 Nissan dealers in New York, New Jersey and Connecti-cut were closed due to lack of electricity, and they ac-count for 40 percent of the region’s sales, Castignetti said.
In past storms, sales were postponed, but they typi-cally recover quickly after people’s lives stabilized, said Ford U.S. sales chief Ken Czubay.
He also said there were a “significant number” of vehicles damaged by flood waters, and that could also boost sales in November. “Typically after the insur-ance companies come in, people use those proceeds to buy new vehicles, which they need to get back and forth to continue their lives,” Czubay said.
Many automakers an-nounced discounts in the storm-ravaged region, in-cluding Nissan, which is offering the same prices it gives to employees.
Volkswagen said one-quarter of its dealerships were affected by the storm,
but it still delivered its best October in nearly 40 years at just over 34,000 vehicles. Sales were led by the Passat midsize sedan, which was up 66 percent.
C h rys l e r sa i d i t so l d 126,000 cars and trucks for the month, led by the Ram pickup, which was up 20 percent, and the Dodge Car-avan van, which saw sales rise 49 percent.
At Ford, sales increased only 0.4 percent to 168,000 cars and trucks. The com-pany said F-Series pickup trucks, the most popular ve-hicle in the nation, had their best October in eight years.
At GM, sales rose to near-ly 196,000 vehicles for the month, led by the Cruze and Sonic small cars. Cruze sales were up 34 percent, while Sonic sales rose 43 percent.
Toyota said its sales rose to 155,000 vehicles. It will re-lease more data later in the day.
At Nissan, the company said October ended on a down note with Sandy caus-ing major disruption in an area where it has 225 dealers. The company’s Nissan and Infiniti brands sod nearly 80,000 cars and trucks, down from just over 82,000 a year earlier.
Industry analysts were ex-pecting an annual sales rate in October of 14.7 million to 14.9 million, but that was before Sandy hit Monday.
The storm could cut sales by 1 percent to 3 percent, or about 20,000 vehicles, said Jeff Schuster, senior
vice president of forecast-ing for LMC Automotive, an industry consulting firm. Schuster said any lost sales would likely shift to Novem-ber, boosting totals for that month.
But Chrysler U.S. sales chief Reid Bigland, who doubles as head of the Dodge brand, said in a statement that the company posted its 31st straight month of year-over-year sales growth even with the storm. Chrysler has revamped nearly all of its models in an effort to boost sales.
LMC predicts that all au-
tomakers sold about 1.1 mil-lion vehicles during October, up 11 percent from a year ago, as the industry contin-ues its slow recovery from the Great Recession.
But Jefferies & Co. analyst Peter Nesvold told investors in a note that Sandy could cost the industry sales of 100,000 cars and trucks in October. He still predicted an annual rate for the month of 14.7 million to 14.9 mil-lion, and he raised his full-year forecast to 14.4 million from 14.2 million based on the strong October. Nes-vold also said the lost sales should return in November.
U.S. sales have been re-covering from a 30-year low of 10.4 million in 2009 when credit froze, unemployment leaped and few people were buying cars. But the num-bers are still far short of the recent peak of around 17 million in 2005. Analysts predict the country could reach 15 million in sales next year, which they consider about normal.
Auto sales have been a bright spot in the U.S. economy all year, staying relatively strong despite a mixture of good and bad economic news.
Associated Press
A Hyundai Elantra is seen inside of a Hyundai car dealership in Des Planines, Ill. Major automakers are reporting Thursday that sales increased for October despite losing three days of business to the punishing rain and wind from superstorm Sandy.
Auto Industry
Ford’s Mark Fields promoted, could become CEO
the announcement puts to rest the swirl of speculation about Ford’s succession plans.
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by DEE-ANN DURbIN AND TOM KRISHERAssociAted Press
DETROIT — Ford’s leaders have watched Mark Fields, a brash Harvard MBA, turn the company’s North Amer-ican business into a profit machine. Now the CEO job is his to lose.
Fields, who has spent sev-en years as head of Ford’s Americas division, will be-come chief operating offi-cer on Dec. 1. He will report to CEO Alan Mulally, 67, who said Thursday that he plans to remain CEO at least through 2014.
Fields, 51, will lead day-to-day operations and head up the company’s weekly business reviews with senior leadership. All of the com-pany’s business units will report to him.
The announcement puts to rest — for now — the swirl of speculation about Ford’s succession plans. The sun-ny, charismatic Mulally will lead the company’s long-term strategy and mentor the new leadership team.
Standard and Poor’s In-vestors Service reiterated its “buy” rating on Ford’s shares, saying the plan should reassure investors because Mulally will stay on.
Fields, though, has been a big player in Ford’s return from near-collapse. Ex-ecutive Chairman Bill Ford said Fields has managed the transformation of the company’s North Ameri-can operations, which were losing billions of dollars when Fields took over that key region in October 2005. The company closed plants, laid off thousands of work-ers, streamlined its vehicle development process and introduced strong new ve-hicles like the Explorer and Fusion. Earlier this week, Ford reported a record $2.3 billion pretax profit in North America.
“I put Mark in that job seven years ago. The growth that we’ve all seen in him has been remarkable,” Bill Ford said.
Ford’s board decided on the leadership changes at its regular meeting Oct. 19. Bill Ford stopped short of say-ing Fields would definitely
be named CEO when Mu-lally retires, but he did say he would prefer Ford’s next CEO to come from inside the company.
“I always look at talent, not only internally but ex-ternally. But I’m very happy with the team we’ve put to-gether,” he said.
Joe Hinrichs, who is now head of Asia Pacific and Af-rica, will replace Fields as head of the Americas. Hin-richs, 45, who ran Ford’s manufacturing operations before taking over Asia, has also been frequently men-tioned as a successor to Mu-lally.
David Schoch, currently chairman of Ford China, will become head of the Asia Pa-cific region.
Stephen Odell, group vice president of Europe, was named executive vice pres-ident and president of Eu-rope, Middle East and Af-rica. He also was among the candidates to succeed Mu-lally.
Jim Farley, who is current-ly head of global marketing, will also become the head of Ford’s luxury Lincoln brand. Lincoln has been struggling in recent years, and Ford is trying to revive it with new products. It’s also introduc-ing Lincoln to China in 2014.
Ford hasn’t had a COO since 2006, when former President and COO Jim Pa-dilla retired. Mulally said he has never worked with a COO, either at Ford or at Boeing Co., where he spent 36 years before coming to Ford.
“I’m really looking for-ward to nurturing Mark and supporting this team,” Mu-lally said.
Mulally is highly respected at Ford for saving the com-pany from financial col-lapse. Shortly after Bill Ford hired him in 2006, he mort-gaged all of Ford’s assets for a $23.5 billion loan, paid for a restructuring and helped keep Ford out of bankruptcy protection. Ford reported its best-ever third quarter pre-tax profit of $2.2 billion ear-lier this week.
“We not only survived but we have created a company that is healthy and is grow-ing and has a clear vision for the future,” Mulally said.
Presidential Campaign
Romney campaign challenges criticism by automakerschrysler is adding 1,100 jobs
to its plant and is also adding production facilities in china.
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“Obama took GM and Chrysler into bankruptcy and sold Chrysler to Italians who are going to build Jeeps in China.”
rOMnEy’S Tv AD
Associated Press
republican presidential candidate, former Massa-chusetts Gov. Mitt romney shakes hands with sup-porters during a campaign stop at the University of Miami,Wednesday in Coral Gables, Fla.
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