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Ford 1998 Annual Meeting Voting Results

14 May 1998

Ford 1998 Annual Meeting Voting Results

    CINCINNATI, May 14 -- A total of 299 persons attended the
43rd annual meeting of Ford Motor Company shareholders today at the
Westin Hotel.
    Preliminary voting results indicate that a total of 896,630,901 shares of
common stock and 70,793,820 shares of Class B stock were represented at the
annual meeting in person or by proxy.  These shares represent 87.07 percent of
the vote that could be cast.
    On Proposal 1, each director received at least 1,643,279,816 votes, or
99.14 percent of the votes cast at the meeting.

    Vote on remaining Proposals:

    Proposal 2.  Relating to the approval of Coopers & Lybrand L.L.P. as
Ford's independent public accountants for 1998.

    For              99.74%
    Against           0.26%
    Abstain           0.26%

    Proposal 3.  Relating to the Company's Annual Incentive Compensation Plan.

    For              97.24%
    Against           2.76%
    Abstain           0.63%

    Proposal 4.  Relating to the Company's 1998 Long-Term Incentive Plan.

    For              77.22%
    Against          22.78%
    Abstain           0.78%

    Proposal 5.  Relating to the Company's Savings and Stock Investment Plan
for Salaried Employees.

    For              98.29%
    Against           1.71%
    Abstain           0.95%

    Proposal 6.  Relating to political non-partisanship.

    For               3.29%
    Against          96.71%
    Abstain           2.45%

    Proposal 7.  Relating to China and the former Soviet Union.

    For               3.02%
    Against          96.98%
    Abstain           3.00%

    Proposal 8.  Relating to global warming.

    For               3.15%
    Against          96.85%
    Abstain           2.17%

    Proposal 9.  Relating to a proposed review of executive compensation.

    For               4.59%
    Against          95.41%
    Abstain           2.56%

    Proposal 10.  Relating to directors on key board committees.

    For              15.10%
    Against          84.90%
    Abstain           1.45%

SOURCE  Ford Motor Company