Motoryzacja

Is this the year that Ford finally stops shrinking? That's the hint from the projections in Ford's financial report. Executives are not yet forecasting higher employment numbers, but several signs point that way.

Like a mantra, Ford Motor Co. executives chanted the words repeatedly over the past 12 months. "We're different." Ford was different, they said, because it didn't run out of cash like GM and Chrysler.

The great-grandson of company founder Henry Ford ascended through a variety of roles at Ford Motor Co. before taking over as chief executive officer in 2001.

It is clear that the new GM is behaving quite differently from the 100-year-old GM that's been kept alive since December with taxpayer money.

Ford Motor Co.'s sales of new cars and trucks in July represented the first year-over-year increase for a domestic automaker since January 2008.