Dividend Declaration

Ford Motor Company
13 January 2000


Letter cc to London Stock Exchange

This is to advise you that the Board of Directors of Ford Motor Company at a
meeting held today declared dividends of 50 cents per share on the Company's
outstanding Class B Stock and Common Stock and $0.515625 a share on the
depositary shares representing its Series B Cumulative Preferred Stock ('Series
B Preferred'), payable March 1, 2000 to stockholders of record on February 1,
2000.

The amounts of the dividends on the Class B and Common Stock and on the Series
B Preferred are the same as the amounts of the dividends paid thereon in the
fourth quarter of 1999.

Letter from Ford Motor Company