Exhibit 99.1


[Graphic Omitted] News Release

Contact:  George Pipas
          (313) 323-9216


FORD MOTOR COMPANY'S NOVEMBER U.S. SALES DOWN 7%

DEARBORN, MI, December 1, 2000 - U.S. consumers purchased or leased 300,665 cars
and trucks from Ford, Mercury, Lincoln, Jaguar, Volvo, and Land Rover dealers in
the month of November, down seven percent from a year ago. (For reference,  last
year,  the company  posted its highest  November  sales  since  1977.)  Sales of
passenger  cars totaled  111,086,  down 16 percent from a year ago.  Truck sales
totaled 189,579, down one percent from a year ago.

Calendar  year-to-date,  Ford Motor  Company's  car and truck sales totaled 3.93
million, up two percent from the same period a year ago.

Highlights for the month included:
     o    Ford  dealers  reported  combined  car and  truck  sales  of  250,664,
          enabling  Ford  Division to eclipse  three million sales in a calendar
          year for the seventh year in a row. Almost 3.25 million U.S. customers
          have taken delivery of a new Ford car or truck in 2000.
     o    Ford Focus sales were 20,900, up 34 percent from a year ago.
     o    Ford Escape sales were 13,000,  the highest  monthly  sales so far. In
          November,  Ford  Outfitters  reported  record sales of "No Boundaries"
          sport  utility  vehicles  as  combined  sales  of the  Ford  Explorer,
          Expedition, Excursion, and Escape totaled 68,173.

Ford Motor  Company  also  announced  today  that it plans to produce  1,072,000
vehicles  (367,000  cars and  705,000  trucks)  in North  America  in the fourth
quarter -- a reduction of 38,000  vehicles  (19,000 cars and 19,000 trucks) from
the plan it  announced a month ago. In the fourth  quarter of 1999,  the company
produced 1,149,000 vehicles (427,000 cars and 722,000 trucks).
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Sales Analysis and Reporting, The American Road, Room 1017, Dearborn, MI 48121
Telephone: (313) 323-9216; Fax:  (313) 323-0610
Internet: http://media.ford.com



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