Why Ford Must Succeed in China
The following video is part of our "Motley Fool Conversations" series, in which industrials editor/analyst Brendan Byrnes and health-care editor/analyst David Williamson discuss topics across the investing world.
In today's edition, Brendan and David discuss Ford and its push into the world's biggest auto market: China. Ford was late to the game in China, and its market share numbers show that. Ford has only 2.8% market share in the country, while rival GM is China's market share leader at 14%. But Ford is working to turn that around, investing $5 billion in China to date and pledging to release 15 new models there by 2015. The country is critical to Ford hitting its goal of 8 million vehicles sold worldwide by 2015, along with India, which has even fewer cars per capita than China.
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