{"id":479194,"date":"2010-03-27T09:47:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-27T13:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/03\/27\/alan-mulally-makes-surprise-visit-to-chinese-ford-dealership-de\/"},"modified":"2010-03-27T09:47:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-27T13:47:00","slug":"alan-mulally-makes-surprise-visit-to-chinese-ford-dealership-delivers-car-to-customer-personally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/479194","title":{"rendered":"Alan Mulally makes surprise visit to Chinese Ford dealership, delivers car to customer personally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Filed under: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/china\/\" rel=\"tag\">China<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/etc\/\" rel=\"tag\">Etc.<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/ford\/\" rel=\"tag\">Ford<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"4\" hspace=\"4\" border=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.autoblog.com\/media\/2010\/03\/mulallychinadel.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>Looks like all kinds of companies are getting into delivering the personal touch &#8211; General Motors is actively <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/03\/26\/report-gm-scouring-internet-for-customer-complaints-and-respond\/\">looking for unhappy customers<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcbayarea.com\/news\/weird\/Steve-Jobs-Apples-Most-Popular-Customer-Service-Agent-89150707.html\">Steve Jobs is personally replying<\/a> to e-mails from Apple users, and now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/make\/ford\">Ford<\/a> CEO Alan Mulally is delivering a car to a customer in China. To be completely fair, this isn&#8217;t the first time Mulally&#8217;s trekked from the tower to the front lines with a set of car keys: he delivered the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2009\/05\/28\/microsoft-ceo-gets-1-000-000th-sync-vehicle\/\">one-millionth SYNC-equipped car<\/a> to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. <\/p>\n<p>This time, however, the recipient was Jane Q. Citizen, otherwise known as a Chinese Ford <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/model\/focus\">Focus<\/a> buyer by the name of Harriet Luo. You can read the tale of Mulally and the far-reaching Focus in Ford&#8217;s press release after the jump. Anyone want to place bets on how soon we&#8217;ll see Whitacre tossing the keys to a CTS-V Sport Wagon?<\/p>\n<p>[Source: Ford]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/03\/27\/alan-mulally-makes-surprise-visit-to-chinese-ford-dealership-de\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Continue reading <em>Alan Mulally makes surprise visit to Chinese Ford dealership, delivers car to customer personally<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/03\/27\/alan-mulally-makes-surprise-visit-to-chinese-ford-dealership-de\/\">Alan Mulally makes surprise visit to Chinese Ford dealership, delivers car to customer personally<\/a> originally appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\">Autoblog<\/a> on Sat, 27 Mar 2010 08:47:00 EST.  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