OK, this is one of your customers here and you owe him $1,000. You never called him back.

I called James. He's a customer, one of our best customers actually. And I said, 'What about doing a 5K to benefit the people down there?' and he was all over it. He went to LSU. He is the draw of the race. He was on CNN [on Thursday] morning talking about the race. Everybody's been behind the cause.

We owe those guys one.

Now with these new credits, our customers can subtract directly from the money they owe the IRS. That makes the Escape hybrid and the Mercury Mariner hybrid even better values.

We owe it to our customers and our dealers ... to be competitive in the marketplace, ... [Ford CEO] Bill Ford said earlier this year we won't be left at the gate.

Now with these new credits, our customers can subtract directly from the money they owe they IRS. That makes the Escape hybrid and the Mercury Mariner hybrid even better values.