if i owned ford stock i would be excited. Someone is in charge that cares to attempt to learn how to make the business work.

Ford and to a greater extent GM have sat back and hoped the market would be manipulated into buying their products for too long. Actually since the beginning. Well almost the beginning for Ford. They at least tried to start up an electric car program back in the 1910's. GM has pretty consistently manipulated the market and destroyed alternatives to help them stay competitive. And I am not talking about the Impact or EV1. They destroyed mass transit in the US. They were prosecuted and convicted of conspiracy of such.

to get someone in charge of one of these companies that cares about learning how to make a good car rather than lobby or conspire to make the crappy products they have appear better is a god send. Now I guess we have to wait and see what the guy does.