Dividend Declaration

Ford Motor Co
12 April 2001


Letter to Company Announcements Office

April 12, 2001

This is to advise you that the Board of Directors of Ford Motor Company at a 
meeting held today declared dividends of 30 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 June 1, 2001 to stockholders of record on May 2, 2001.

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 
first quarter of 2001.

Letter from Ford Motor Company


                     FORD DECLARES SECOND QUARTER DIVIDEND

DEARBORN, Mich., April 12 - The Board of Directors of Ford Motor Company
(NYSE:F) today declared a second quarter dividend of 30 cents a share on the
company's Class B and common stock.  This is the same dividend paid in the first
quarter of 2001.

The board also declared a dividend of 51.5625 cents a share on the depositary
shares representing the company's Series B Cumulative Preferred Stock.

The dividend on the Series B Preferred Stock equals the quarterly amount of the
annual cumulative dividend of $2.0625 per depositary share.

The second quarter dividends are payable on June 1 to shareholders of record on
May 2.


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