On this bonus podcast, AutoCar fundamental editor Steve Cropley meets the Fords. Sure, these whose title is above the door at Ford Motor Firm.

Ford stays the one main automotive producer led by the founding household and managed for the entire of its existence, on this case 122 years and counts. Steve Cropley just lately sat down with Invoice Ford government chairman and solely the fourth Ford member of the family who sits on the high of the corporate – and his two sons, Ford Efficiency basic supervisor Ford and Nick Ford, director of company technique.

In an intensive dialogue, the quartet discusses the advance of Ford’s passenger automotive “robustness” in Europe; Ford’s sustained dedication to racing, together with the Phrase of Purple Bull’s Components 1 engine provider; the transfer to electrification and why you’ll be able to’t make folks purchase automobiles they do not need; the transport; What it’s prefer to run a household enterprise within the measurement of Ford; And why it isn’t a household service company; Plus their favourite automobiles, and extra.

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