The Ford Escape Hybrid and Mercury Mariner Hybrid are the gasoline-electric hybr

id powered versions that launched in the U.S. in 2004 for the 2005 model year. B
uilt in Kansas City, Missouri, it was the first hybrid SUV to hit the market. Th
e Ford Escape Hybrid was the first American-built hybrid and the first hybrid ve
hicle from an American automaker, joined by the Chevrolet Silverado/GMC Sierra H
ybrids during the same model year. According to the Environmental Protection Age
ncy, the first generation Ford Escape Hybrid is 70% more efficient than the regu
lar Escape. The Mercury Mariner Hybrid is a rebadged version of the Escape Hybri
d. It features revised front-end styling and a more luxurious interior.
of the voting power).[5][4]
Ford introduced methods for large-scale manufacturing of cars and large-scale ma
nagement of an industrial workforce using elaborately engineered manufacturing s
equences typified by moving assembly lines; by 1914, these methods were known ar
ound the world as Fordism. Ford's former UK subsidiaries Jaguar and Land Rover,
acquired in 1989 and 2000 respectively, were sold to Tata Motors in March 2008.
Ford owned the Swedish automaker Volvo from 1999 to 2010.[6] In 2011, Ford disco
ntinued the Mercury brand, under which it had marketed entry-level luxury cars i
n the United States, Canada, Mexico, and the Middle East since 1938.