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Automotive Segment - This schedule contains summary financial information
extracted from Ford's Current Report on Form 8-K dated October 15, 1997 and is
qualified in its entirety by reference to such financial statements.  This
schedule supercedes the previously filed schedule in such Report.

 0000037996
 FORD MOTOR COMPANY
 1,000,000
       
                             
                   9-MOS
                          DEC-31-1997
                             JAN-01-1997 
                               SEP-30-1997
                                           5,027
                                    14,293
                                    3,220
                                       115
                                      6,320
                                36,650
                                          75,501
                                  41,219
                                  85,440
                           35,994
                                          6,620
                                             0
                                0
                                          0
                                           0
                         0
                                         89,926
                                89,926
                                           80,023
                                   84,932
                                     0
                                     0
                                 592
                                  5,071
                                         0
                                  0
                                       0
                                      0
                                            0
                                         0
                                        0
                                        0