This is pretty link-baitey even for Techcrunch let alone Hacker News Ford's current CEO Alan Mulally is actually pretty good - I met him when he was still dire

This is pretty link-baitey even for Techcrunch let alone Hacker News Ford's current CEO Alan Mulally is actually pretty good - I met him when he was still director of engineering for the 777 - under him Ford has made some good moves, such as building a large capital base just before the credit crunch hit. Ford also already makes some good cars, they just don't sell them in the US - they need to pull some EU models over to the states