Jac Nasser, president and CEO of Ford Motor Company, statement in response to National Highway Traffic Safety Administration investigation of some Firestone tires used on SUVs and other light trucks, including Ford vehicles.
Transcribed from live telecast August 4, 2000 at 4:35 p.m. EST

We’re clearly very, very concerned about the situation. We’re working extremely closely with the U.S. government and Firestone because we want to get to the bottom of this as quickly as we can.

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