The closures that are indicated are further out because of those commitments.

It's time for these younger leaders to show their wares. Bill is going to be much more closely involved.

The team in North America, led by Mark Fields and supported by Anne Stevens, developed the plan for North America, drawing on their extensive global experience in Asia, Europe and The Americas. They have reenergized the Ford team to make it work, and they have the full support of the Ford Motor Company behind them.

Bill and I have worked closely together in putting together the right team.

Bill Ford and I have worked hard to develop and assemble the best leadership for the company.

We're going to be more vocal (about our green efforts). It's not clear to us that we've gotten much credit for the good things that we have done, and we think we ought to start talking about that and get people to recognize it. If some people choose to sit on the sidelines and criticize, then we ought to ask them what they're doing physically to make a difference rather than just talking.

We will be aggressive. We will address costs. We will address our footprint as a business. We will address capacity.

We had a good plan at the end of 2001, ... We executed it. We achieved everything that was in it and then some. But it wasn't good enough. ... So guess what? Now we have to respond again, and we're going to step up to it.

We have to be very aggressive in terms of controlling costs,

We think we're at a reasonable level at this point. We don't have any explosive plan to go out and hack away. We've taken a lot of whacks at that. Right now we're looking to get stability -- stability in our product cycle, stability in our manpower, stability in our plant situation.