{"id":646303,"date":"2010-01-28T11:08:01","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T16:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ridelust.com\/?p=35211"},"modified":"2010-01-28T11:08:01","modified_gmt":"2010-01-28T16:08:01","slug":"back-in-black-ford-motor-company-announces-first-annual-profit-since-2005","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/646303","title":{"rendered":"Back in Black: Ford Motor Company Announces First Annual Profit Since 2005"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ridelust.com\/back-in-black-ford-motor-company-announces-first-annual-profit-since-2005\/ford-logo-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-35213\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ridelust.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/ford-logo1.jpg?resize=450%2C225\" alt=\"Ford logo\" title=\"ford-logo\" width=\"450\" height=\"225\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-35213\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ford Motor Company released 2009 earnings on Thursday, reporting an annual profit of $2.7 billion.  This represents the automaker\u2019s first trip out of the red since 2005 and is a dramatic turnaround from 2008, when Ford reported losses of $14.8 billion.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ridelust.com\/back-in-black-ford-motor-company-announces-first-annual-profit-since-2005\/f150\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-35219\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ridelust.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/f150.jpg?resize=500%2C355\" alt=\"Ford F150\" title=\"f150\" width=\"500\" height=\"355\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-35219\" \/><\/a>Ford F150, consistantly the best selling truck in the US.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-35211\"><\/span>Fourth quarter results between 2009 and 2008 were the most dramatic: in 2009, Ford earned $868 million, compared to a loss of $5.9 billion in Q4 2008.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ridelust.com\/back-in-black-ford-motor-company-announces-first-annual-profit-since-2005\/ford-fusion\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-35220\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ridelust.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ford-Fusion.jpg?resize=433%2C280\" alt=\"Ford Fusion\" title=\"Ford Fusion\" width=\"433\" height=\"280\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-35220\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nFord Fusion, their best selling passenger car in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps better news is their projection of profitability in 2010, which moves the company\u2019s earlier projections of consistent profitability up by one full year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/atG29C2DPv5AcZE-t6ykabenAU8\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/atG29C2DPv5AcZE-t6ykabenAU8\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/atG29C2DPv5AcZE-t6ykabenAU8\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/atG29C2DPv5AcZE-t6ykabenAU8\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ford Motor Company released 2009 earnings on Thursday, reporting an annual profit of $2.7 billion. This represents the automaker\u2019s first trip out of the red since 2005 and is a dramatic turnaround from 2008, when Ford reported losses of $14.8 billion. Ford F150, consistantly the best selling truck in the US. Fourth quarter results between [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1332,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-646303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2I8f","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1332"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=646303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}