Ford Engineer Is Promoted

Monday, November 22, 2004 4:31 AM


Publication Date: Monday November 22, 2004
Business/Financial Desk; Section C; Page 7; Column 2
c. 2004 New York Times Company
By The New York Times

DETROIT -- The Ford Motor Company promoted the top engineer of the redesigned Mustang, Hau Thai-Tang, to direct future product development at the company.
The promotion was the latest step by Ford's chief executive, William Clay Ford Jr., to revive the company's lineup with attention-grabbing vehicles. The Mustang has been praised in early reviews. Mr. Thai-Tang, 38, succeeds Chris Theodore, 54, the company's vice president of advanced product creation, who the company said would retire.
Mr. Thai-Tang will be the director of advanced product creation and of Ford's special vehicles team, which makes high-performance cars, but will not be a vice president. In the job, he will lead long-term product strategies, including development of the concept cars unveiled at auto shows that are prototypes for future models.
Mr. Theodore, who has experience at all three of the major automakers, was hired in 1999 by Jacques A. Nasser, Ford's former chief executive, who was pushed out in 2001 amid steep losses.
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Well, i did i search on his name + promoted and nothing came up.

 

Seriously, this is the third time this has been posted.

 

The search feature doesn't work. It doesn't detect this post, or any of the previous ones with the same content.

 

http://forums.bradbarnett.net/index.php?ac...s&highlite=thai

Found them just by typing "Thai". Next time search better.

 

Closing . . . but thanks anyway SVTJay.