{"id":180692,"date":"2010-01-14T15:29:57","date_gmt":"2010-01-14T20:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.egmcartech.com\/?p=48956"},"modified":"2010-01-14T15:29:57","modified_gmt":"2010-01-14T20:29:57","slug":"report-fomoco-considering-taking-lincoln-global%e2%80%a6-eventually","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/180692","title":{"rendered":"Report: FoMoCo considering taking Lincoln global\u2026 eventually"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-48959 aligncenter\" title=\"2011 Lincoln MKS\" src=\"http:\/\/www.egmcartech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/2011_lincoln_mks_emblem.jpg\" alt=\"2011 Lincoln MKS\" width=\"563\" height=\"311\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.egmcartech.com\/tag\/2010-detroit-auto-show\/\"> 2010 Detroit Auto Show<\/a>, Ford&#8217;s president of the Americas, Mark Fields, said that FoMoCo may consider selling Lincoln outside of North America.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPotentially, but we are focusing Lincoln here in North America for right now,\u201d Fields said.\u00a0\u201cWe don\u2019t have any plans at this point to take it global. That doesn\u2019t mean in the future we wouldn\u2019t look at that, but it\u2019s very important for us to focus on North America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Separately, Fields declined to comment on the possibility of Lincoln getting a compact vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>Lincoln sales fell 23 percent\u00a0to 82,847 units last year, its lowest total since 1981.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211; By: Kap Shah<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Source:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.autonews.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20100113\/GLOBAL\/100119898\/1131\"> Automotive News <\/a>(Subscription Required)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/h6SfRJMMW-OskFMB-9cv60JoWUE\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/h6SfRJMMW-OskFMB-9cv60JoWUE\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/h6SfRJMMW-OskFMB-9cv60JoWUE\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/h6SfRJMMW-OskFMB-9cv60JoWUE\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?a=1a3dd-Osz98:xI9qwGTy2Zs:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?a=1a3dd-Osz98:xI9qwGTy2Zs:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?i=1a3dd-Osz98:xI9qwGTy2Zs:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?a=1a3dd-Osz98:xI9qwGTy2Zs:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?i=1a3dd-Osz98:xI9qwGTy2Zs:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?a=1a3dd-Osz98:xI9qwGTy2Zs:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?a=1a3dd-Osz98:xI9qwGTy2Zs:TzevzKxY174\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?d=TzevzKxY174\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of the 2010 Detroit Auto Show, Ford&#8217;s president of the Americas, Mark Fields, said that FoMoCo may consider selling Lincoln outside of North America. \u201cPotentially, but we are focusing Lincoln here in North America for right now,\u201d Fields said.\u00a0\u201cWe don\u2019t have any plans at this point to take it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}