William Clay Ford Jr.

Yes.

We had a... situation during the bankruptcy of Detroit, in which Bill Ford, the executive chairman of the company, was interviewed.

And the interviewer said, and congratulations, you must be very happy.

The Ford Foundation has helped save the city, et cetera.

They kind of, I've got a lot of friends at that level, met with them.

So from Bill Ford, who's a dear friend.

And I talk about it because we've done some things publicly.

And I, you know, I work with the CEO of Nike and the CEO of whatever it is.

And I think even with the comments of the Heisman Trophy, that some of these CEOs made, they fully understand that they will have to compete sooner or later, head on.

Jim Farley said that, and Bill Ford said that weeks ago.

My concern is, living in Michigan, is that I talk to people every day.

I see their actions and I still don't feel the urgency necessary to build competitive products as they are yet, generally speaking.

Yeah, that car is sharp.

So now we talked about fastbacks, but Mike, I guess Bill Ford at one time talked about the most iconic Mustangs are red.

Now this isn't that really bright orangey red, but this dark red with the Mach 1 bottom, the black, the chin spoiler, the black and red just go together.

I think really sets this car out as he went with the super modern wheels, but with the three spoke spinners, you know, There's just something.

Yeah.

And so I had been, you know, I had been reading those and touching those, and then I got to know Jack perversely when I was at eBay, because Bill Ford of Ford Motor Company was on my board, and he, uh, Jack had...

He was one of Jack's mentees.

He introduced me to Jack.

So do I think next year's anywhere near a finished product? No, but next year we should at least be able to see the plan based on what's on the field.

Josh Inwood, "Is Chris Ilitch the most tone deaf owner in Detroit? He makes William Clay Ford look positively enlightened."

I think it's partly his face, don't you? Like, he's got this...

It is a stupid looking face.

He's coming up next.

Also, I wanna salute, uh, Bill Ford and the, the entire Ford team, uh, Jim Farley, everybody there, for paying tribute to ...

I already mentioned last week that we lost, uh, just a, a lion of a man who supported Detroit and the DIA and, and so many good things.

Uh, and that, of course, was Richard Manoogian, born in 1936 and just passed away.