CT

Conglomerate Totals - This schedule contains summary financial information
extracted from Ford's Current Report on Form 8-K dated April 16, 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
       
                             
                    3-MOS
                          DEC-31-1997
                             JAN-01-1997
                               MAR-31-1997
                                 261,957
                                         1,192
                                0
                                          0
                                      26,060
                   261,957
                                36,202
                                       898
                              1,469
                                       0
                                      0
                                            0
                                     1,469
                                     1.23
                                     1.20