{"id":8249,"date":"2004-11-23T13:05:56","date_gmt":"2004-11-23T11:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/11\/23\/ford-motor-company\/"},"modified":"2005-10-03T14:58:29","modified_gmt":"2005-10-03T11:58:29","slug":"ford-motor-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/11\/23\/ford-motor-company\/","title":{"rendered":"Ford Motor Company"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>When I first saw <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stepanoff.org\/blog\/?itemid=88\">this<\/a> in Michael&#8217;s blog I didn&#8217;t beleive my eyes.  Ford Motor Company owning Volvo, Lincoln, Jaguar, Mercury, Land Rover, Mazda, and Aston Martin seemed like way too much.<\/p>\n<p>Well, Ford&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ford.com\/\">website<\/a> has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ford.com\/en\/company\/about\/brands\/\">some information<\/a> about brands. But I went Googling for more information.  It looks like it is true.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/articles\/1999\/feb1999\/volv-f04.shtml\">Ford acquires Volvo car operations<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lincoln.com\/\">Lincoln&#8217;s website<\/a> is copyrighted by Ford Motor Company.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/waw.wardsauto.com\/ar\/auto_history_ford_motor\/\">History<\/a> of Ford Motor Company confirms other acquisitions<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I have to do something about my jaw, because it ends up on the floor way too often recently.<\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>When I first saw this in Michael&#8217;s blog I didn&#8217;t beleive my eyes. Ford Motor Company owning Volvo, Lincoln, Jaguar, Mercury, Land Rover, Mazda, and Aston Martin seemed like way too much. Well, Ford&#8217;s website has some information about brands. But I went Googling for more information. It looks like it is true. Ford acquires &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/11\/23\/ford-motor-company\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ford Motor Company<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1968,58,115],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-8249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-business","tag-cars","tag-ford"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8200,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/11\/12\/biggest-ever-motor-show\/","url_meta":{"origin":8249,"position":0},"title":"Biggest ever motor show","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"November 12, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"According to Xak.com, there is currently a huge motor show held in Nicosia. 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