5

Financial Services Segment - This schedule contains summary financial 
information extracted from Ford's Current Report on Form 8-K dated July 16,
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 previously
filed schedule in such Report.

 0000037996
 FORD MOTOR COMPANY
 1,000,000
       
                             
                    6-MOS
                          DEC-31-1997
                             JAN-01-1997                 
                               JUN-30-1997
                                           1,859
                                     2,719
                                  168,319
                                         0
                                          0
                                     0
                                               0
                                       0
                                 188,088
                                0
                                        155,531
                                             0
                                0
                                          0
                                           0
                         0
                                         14,737
                                14,737
                                                0
                                   13,030
                                     0
                                 1,639
                               4,778
                                  2,029
                                         0
                                  0
                                       0
                                      0
                                            0
                                         0
                                        0
                                        0