While I agree with your comment, I'm still of the opinion that the biggest contributor to the current product line was the arrival of Alan Mulally as CEO. He stopped the insanity of developing different cars for different markets. His Boeing background had more to do with Ford's transformation that anything else. After all, Boeing doesn't build a different jet for different airlines. How insane would that be? DUH!

And besides, IMO, Ford gets my KUDOs for not having to take the FEDs "bail-out" money to avoid bankrupcy.