Rangers Follow

Bleeding cash and with its very survival uncertain, Ford Motor Co., an icon of American automaking, will try to import some of its success from across the Atlantic. In this Feb. 5, 2008 file photo provided by the Ford Motor Co., a Ford Transit Connect vehicle is shown. Ford identified only three of the European small vehicles it will bring to North America: the Transit Connect small van, the European Focus and the subcompact Fiesta, Thursday, July 24, 2008. Most will be built in North America, and some might be exported. Ford already has announced that the Transit Connect will be imported from Turkey. In this April 1, 2008 file photo, a Ford Fiesta is pictured in Cologne, Germany. Ford Motor Co. posted the worst quarterly performance in its history Thursday, July 24, 2008, losing $8.67 billion in the second quarter. The company also said it will retool two more North American truck and sport utility vehicle plants to build small, fuel-efficient vehicles, and it announced plans to bring six new small vehicles, including the Fiesta, to North America from Europe by the end of 2012. In this April 13, 2006 file photo, new Ford Rangers are seen parked in a lot at the Twin Cities Ford Assembly Plant in St. Paul, Minn. Ford on Thursday, July 24, 2008 said the plant will continue producing the Ranger small pickup through 2011. The plant was scheduled to close next year, but Ranger sales are down just 4 percent in the first half of this year, versus 18 percent for the U.S. light truck market as a whole.