Dividend Notification Declaration

Ford Motor Co
17 April 2000


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 June 1, 2000
to stockholders of record on May 2, 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 first
quarter of 2000.