Appointment of VP

Ford Motor Co
24 October 2007

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FORD MOTOR COMPANY NAMES RAY DAY TO LEAD GLOBAL COMMUNICATIONS TEAM

DEARBORN, Mich., Oct. 24 - Ford Motor Company (NYSE: F) today announced the 
appointment of Ray Day as vice president of Communications.  

Day will lead all of the company's global external and internal communications
and public relations activities, reporting to Jim Farley, the company's new
group vice president of Marketing and Communications.  Day succeeds Charlie
Holleran, 62, who is leaving the company after more than three years of service
in leading Ford's Communications team.

'Ray Day is a talented, passionate and tireless communications leader.  We are
thrilled to have his experience and leadership as we accelerate telling the Ford
story to all our stakeholders,' said Alan Mulally, Ford's president and chief
executive officer.  'We also applaud Charlie Holleran for developing the next
generation of Ford's communication leadership and for being a strong advocate of
closer integration of our Marketing and Communications teams under Jim Farley.'

'Ford's quality and vehicles are now on par with the best of the competition,
as recent third-party studies have proven.  I look forward to working with Ray
and our entire team in communicating those strengths to customers and
introducing even more of them to the family of Ford,' added Farley, who was in
Dearborn this week to meet with members of the Marketing and Communications
teams and the agencies who work with them.

Most recently serving as executive director of Corporate Communications, Day,
41, has been spearheading Ford's communications strategy, including plans to
transform the company's communications model for today's changing consumer and
media landscape.

Day joined Ford in 1989 and spent most of his career leading Ford's global
communications and public relations activities related to the company's
products, design, manufacturing, sales, marketing, brand development and
corporate issues.  He lived for four years in Europe - serving as head of Ford's
European Product Public Affairs in both Germany and the UK - and started his
Ford career leading the company's internal communications network.  He was a
newspaper reporter and editor before joining Ford.

Ford Motor Company, a global automotive industry leader based in Dearborn,
Mich., manufactures or distributes automobiles in 200 markets across six
continents. With about 260,000 employees and about 100 plants worldwide, the
company's core and affiliated automotive brands include Ford, Jaguar, Land
Rover, Lincoln, Mercury, Volvo and Mazda. The company provides financial
services through Ford Motor Credit Company. For more information regarding
Ford's products, please visit www.fordvehicles.com.

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