再过4年,美国福特汽车公司就100岁了。这个在风风雨雨中走过近一个世纪的汽车集团,1998年获利66亿美元,按可比价值计算比上年增长10％,再次夺得世界汽车业界盈利冠军。1998年,该公司共在全球销售汽车682.3万辆,实现销售额超过1444亿美元。福特去年在成本控制方面收效显著,全年共降低成本达22亿美元, In another four years, the U.S. Ford Motor Company is 100 years old. This nearly a century of ups and downs in the automotive group, in 1998 profit 6.6 billion, according to the comparable value of 10% increase over the previous year, once again won the world automotive industry champion of profitability. In 1998, the company sold 6.823 million vehicles worldwide and achieved sales of more than 144.4 billion U.S. dollars. Last year, Ford made remarkable achievements in cost control, reducing the total cost by 2.2 billion U.S. dollars in the whole year,