This year’s opening round of congressional hearings regarding global warming and alternative fuels has been bombarded with a bunch of controversial issues. For Ford Motor Company ( NYSE:F ), China has offered not only a market for its mainstream vehicles, but also a huge array of consumers for Ford’s rebounding Lincoln brand, without a host of strong domestic competitors. Automaker Volvo will export cars from China to the United States and is going to earn the distinction as the first major global automaker to export cars directly to the U. Ford was the last of the Detroit Three automakers to reach a new contract with Unifor.
The automaker expects that the 2007 Jeep Compass is designed with an urban flair to appeal to new buyers in the compact SUV segment projected to double to 568,000 units by 2010 and triple to 814,000 by 2016 from 297,000 units in 2004. The …