Ford Motor Company is one of the premier automotive manufacturing companies in the world. It is most famous for demonstrating the strengths of mass-production assembly lines when it was founded in the early 1900s. Today, it is the world's largest truck maker and the one of the biggest maker of cars, second only to General Motors. Some the brands it makes cars under include Jaguar, Lincoln and Volvo; the company is also well known for its own Taurus and F-Series pickup (aHoover's, 2000). Most notable has been its success with the sports-utility vehicle (SUV) market: ...