5Financial Services 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.The error message indicated on this FDS is a result of the EDGAR system's inability to accept multiple Article 5 Financial Data Schedules. Accordingly,the error message should be ignored. This schedule supercedes the previouslyfiled schedule in such Report. 0000037996 FORD MOTOR COMPANY 1,000,000 9-MOS DEC-31-1997 JAN-01-1997 SEP-30-1997 2,117 2,155 169,914 0 0 0 0 0 188,783 0 155,407 0 0 0 0 0 22,637 22,637 0 20,033 0 2,474 7,208 2,941 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0