1-3950 | 38-0549190 |
(Commission File Number) | (IRS Employer Identification No.) |
One American Road, Dearborn, Michigan | 48126 |
(Address of principal executive offices) | (Zip Code) |
Designation | Description | Method of Filing |
Exhibit 99 | News release dated March 1, 2012 | Filed with this Report |
concerning February 2012 U.S. retail sales |
• | Decline in industry sales volume, particularly in the United States or Europe, due to financial crisis, recession, geopolitical events, or other factors; |
• | Decline in market share or failure to achieve growth; |
• | Lower-than-anticipated market acceptance of new or existing products; |
• | Market shift away from sales of larger, more profitable vehicles beyond our current planning assumption, particularly in the United States; |
• | An increase in fuel prices, continued volatility of fuel prices, or reduced availability of fuel; |
• | Continued or increased price competition resulting from industry excess capacity, currency fluctuations, or other factors; |
• | Fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates, commodity prices, and interest rates; |
• | Adverse effects on our operations resulting from economic, geopolitical, or other events; |
• | Economic distress of suppliers that may require us to provide substantial financial support or take other measures to ensure supplies of components or materials and could increase our costs, affect our liquidity, or cause production constraints or disruptions; |
• | Work stoppages at Ford or supplier facilities or other limitations on production (whether as a result of labor disputes, natural or man-made disasters, tight credit markets or other financial distress, information technology issues, production constraints or difficulties, or other factors); |
• | Single-source supply of components or materials; |
• | Labor or other constraints on our ability to maintain competitive cost structure; |
• | Substantial pension and postretirement health care and life insurance liabilities impairing our liquidity or financial condition; |
• | Worse-than-assumed economic and demographic experience for our postretirement benefit plans (e.g., discount rates or investment returns); |
• | Restriction on use of tax attributes from tax law "ownership change;" |
• | The discovery of defects in vehicles resulting in delays in new model launches, recall campaigns, reputational damage, or increased warranty costs; |
• | Increased safety, emissions, fuel economy, or other regulations resulting in higher costs, cash expenditures, and/or sales restrictions; |
• | Unusual or significant litigation, governmental investigations or adverse publicity arising out of alleged defects in our products, perceived environmental impacts, or otherwise; |
• | A change in our requirements where we have long-term supply arrangements committing us to purchase minimum or fixed quantities of certain parts, or to pay a minimum amount to the seller ("take-or-pay" contracts); |
• | Adverse effects on our results from a decrease in or cessation or clawback of government incentives related to investments; |
• | Inherent limitations of internal controls impacting financial statements and safeguarding of assets; |
• | Cybersecurity risks to operational systems, security systems, or infrastructure owned by us or a third-party vendor, or at a supplier facility; |
• | Failure of financial institutions to fulfill commitments under committed credit facilities; |
• | Inability of Ford Credit to access debt, securitization, or derivative markets around the world at competitive rates or in sufficient amounts, due to credit rating downgrades, market volatility, market disruption, regulatory requirements, or other factors; |
• | Higher-than-expected credit losses, lower-than-anticipated residual values or higher-than-expected return volumes for leased vehicles; |
• | Increased competition from banks or other financial institutions seeking to increase their share of financing Ford vehicles; and |
• | New or increased credit, consumer, or data protection or other regulations resulting in higher costs and/or additional financing restrictions. |
FORD MOTOR COMPANY | ||
(Registrant) | ||
Date: March 1, 2012 | By: | /s/ Louis J. Ghilardi |
Louis J. Ghilardi | ||
Assistant Secretary |
Designation | Description |
Exhibit 99 | News release dated March 1, 2012 concerning |
February 2012 U.S. retail sales | |