From your link "Thats a perception the company has fueled itself, by making statements about how not taking a "bailout" has been beneficial to its recent resurgence. We realize the two transactions are quite different, and this loan was not a bailout."
BTW, Toyota also took a bailout, I mean loan, according to your link. I guess you're writing them off, too.
Heres more, from Bloomberg.com "Just about every one of the European automakers, apart from Mercedes, have had a rescue of some sort or another, Rhys said. And Toyota has benefited from Japans "incredible low cost of credit," he added. "It wasnt technically state aid, but it certainly wasnt the sort of conditions companies in Europe or North America could borrow at.""
Besides, as I said Ford did NOT screw over their bond holders to pay off the UAW as GM and Chrysler did.
I'll not buy one stinkin' product from any of these traitorous companies until the completely divest themselves of all entanglements with the Federal Government.
Also from your link, "All of this aid has since been repaid with interest to the government."
I will reward those companies that did not take bailout money with my business.
Good, because your own link acknowledges that the loans Ford took out are not the same thing as a bailout.