CT

Conglomerate Totals - This schedule contains summary financial information
extracted from Ford's Current Report on Form 8-K dated October 16, 1996
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-31-1996
                             JAN-01-1996
                               SEP-30-1996
                                 258,501
                                         1,186
                                0
                                          0
                                      24,966
                   258,501
                               108,158
                                     1,581
                              3,242
                                       0
                                      0
                                            0
                                     3,242
                                     2.72
                                     2.66