Fiesta and Focus Lead Ford's January 2005 European Sales

COLOGNE, February 15, 2006 – Ford of Europe's sales and market share were up in January, paced by increased sales of the Ford Fiesta and Ford Focus. In total, Ford of Europe sold 122,100 passenger cars and commercial vehicles in January, an increase of 1,400 units over January 2005. Ford's total vehicle market share was 8.8 percent, 0.1 percentage points better than the same period last year.

Once again the Focus led the way with sales of 37,800, beating the strong January of 2005 sales by 900 units. Contributing to this figure was Ford's new high perform-ance Focus ST of which more than 4,000 examples were sold between its production start in October 2005 and the end of January 2006 – exceeding the company's expec-tations.

Ford Fiesta sales in January were even stronger at 31,900 compared to 27,700 last year. It's an impressive start to the year for Fiesta, which celebrates its 30th anniver-sary in 2006.

On the commercial vehicle front, 11,200 Ford Transits were sold, up from 10,300 in 2005.

Britain continues to be Ford's largest market in Europe in terms of sales volume, with Focus and Fiesta as number one and two in the UK's car best seller list in Janu-ary. Italy ranks number two with Focus and Fiesta as import leaders, followed by Germany, Spain and France.

Ranked by market share across all European markets in which Ford is represented, Turkey takes the top spot with 18.8 percent (up from 17.3 percent in January 2005), followed by the UK (17.4 percent versus 16.8 percent in 2005), Ireland, Hungary and Italy.

Ford's sales data includes both passenger cars and commercial vehicles from its 19 major European Sales Companies (excluding Russia, Turkey and others).