Phil Martens Quotations

We are fortunate to have the largest base of SUV customers in the industry. The input of more than 5 million owners helped influence the changes we made to the 2006 Explorer. The result refines what has made the Explorer such a success, while improving everything from the towing capacity to the choice of interior trim.

What we didn't have was a DNA that we really thought would be the future of Ford.

We have had some difficulties. We set a path to control our own destiny on this, and we are going to control our own destiny.

You can go to an extreme. We won't go there. But we certainly want to have design that makes a statement.

To get the volume we want, we need to produce them here in the United States and we need to actually be able to be much more in control of the situation.

We must be able to ramp up production and migrate the technology to more models, but we can't do that if the know-how resides abroad.