Registration No. 33-_______      
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                         SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                              WASHINGTON, D.C.  20549
                                     _____________

                                        FORM S-8

                                REGISTRATION STATEMENT
                                        UNDER
                              THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933    
                                      ____________

                                   FORD MOTOR COMPANY
                (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

           Delaware                                   38-0549190
(State or other jurisdiction of          (I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)
incorporation or organization)

         The American Road
         Dearborn, Michigan                             48121           
(Address of principal executive offices)              (Zip Code)

                                  __________
       
                 FORD MOTOR COMPANY DEFERRED COMPENSATION PLAN
                            (Full title of the Plan)
                                  ___________

                              J. M. RINTAMAKI, Esq.
                               Ford Motor Company
                                 P. O. Box 1899
                                The American Road
                         Dearborn, Michigan  48121-1899
                                (313) 323-2260
                (Name, address and telephone number, including 
                       area code, of agent for service)
                                  ___________


                         CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
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                                                             Proposed
                                         Proposed            maximum         
 Title of                                maximum            aggregate         Amount of
securities to     Amount to be        offering price        offering         registration
be registered      registered         per obligation         price**             fee
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<S>               <C>                <C>                   <C>              <C>
Deferred
Compensation
Obligations*       $38,300,000        100%                  $38,300,000      $13,206.99

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*	 The Deferred Compensation Obligations are unsecured obligations of Ford 
   Motor Company to pay deferred compensation in the future in accordance with 
   the terms of the Ford Motor Company Deferred Compensation Plan.
**	Estimated solely for the purpose of determining the registration fee.


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                 FORD MOTOR COMPANY DEFERRED COMPENSATION PLAN

                             ______________________


             INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT
                                                                 
Item 3. Incorporation of Documents by Reference.

   	The following documents filed or to be filed with the Securities and
Exchange Commission are incorporated by reference in this Registration
Statement:

	(a)  The latest annual report of Ford Motor Company ("Ford") filed 
pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 
(the "1934 Act") which contains, either directly or indirectly by 
incorporation by reference, certified financial statements for Ford's 
latest fiscal year for which such statements have been filed.

	(b)  All other reports filed pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the 
1934 Act since the end of the fiscal year covered by the annual report 
referred to in paragraph (a) above.

	(c)  The description of Ford's Common Stock contained in registration 
statement no. 2-50792 filed by Ford under the Securities Act of 1933 (the 
"1933 Act").

	All documents subsequently filed by Ford pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c),
14 and 15(d) of the 1934 Act, prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment 
which indicates that all securities offered have been sold or which deregisters 
all securities then remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated by 
reference in this Registration Statement and to be a part hereof from the date 
of filing such documents.


Item 4.  Description of Securities.

	The Ford Motor Company Deferred Compensation Plan (the "Plan") is a 
nonqualified deferred compensation plan for employees of Ford Motor Company
(the "Company") and its subsidiaries who are eligible for awards under the
Ford Motor Company Supplemental Compensation Plan (the "SC Plan").  Under the
Plan, the Company will provide participants with the opportunity to defer
bonus awards under the SC Plan and/or base salary in accordance with the terms
of the Plan.  

	Amounts deferred pursuant to the Plan will be credited by book entry to 
the participant's deferred compensation account.  All such amounts shall be
held in the general funds of the Company and each participant will have the
status of a general unsecured creditor of the Company with respect to his or
her deferred compensation account.  The value of a participant's deferred
compensation account will be based on the performance of the investment
options selected by the participant under the Plan for purposes of accounting
(as if the deferred compensation had been so invested) and not for actual
investment.  Unless otherwise delegated to the Deferred Compensation
Committee, the Compensation and Option Committee of the Board of Directors of
the Company has the sole discretion to determine the investment options
available under the Plan as the measurement mechanism.  A participant may
redesignate amounts credited to his or her deferred compensation account
among the investment options available under the Plan on a daily basis.

	The obligations of the Company under the Plan  (the "Obligations") will be 
unsecured general obligations of the Company to pay in the future the value of 
the deferred compensation account adjusted to reflect the performance, whether 
positive or negative, of the selected measurement investment options during the 
deferral period, in accordance with the terms of the Plan.  The Obligations
will rank pari passu with the other unsecured and unsubordinated indebtedness
of the Company from time to time outstanding.  Each participant shall elect,
with respect to any particular deferral under the Plan, the year in which 
distribution shall be made or distribution upon retirement and the method of 
distribution desired with respect to any such deferral election if the 
participant elected distribution upon retirement, i.e., in a lump sum payment
or in ten annual installments.  Distribution of all or any part of a
participant's deferred compensation account shall be made by the Company on, or
as soon thereafter as practicable, (i) March 15 of the year selected by the
participant for distribution if the participant is an active employee of the
Company on the distribution date, (ii) March 15 following the death or
termination of employment of the participant for reasons other than
retirement, (iii) March 15 following retirement of the participant if the
participant selected distribution upon retirement and a lump sum distribution
was selected, or if the participant selected a particular year for
distribution but retired prior to the year selected, or (iv) March 15 of the
year following retirement of the participant with respect to the first annual
installment and continuing on nine  consecutive anniversaries of such date if
ten installments were selected with respect to the particular deferral, all
in accordance with the terms of the Plan.

   	A participant's interest in his or her deferred compensation account, and 
thus his or her right to the Obligations, generally cannot be assigned, 
transferred, garnished, pledged or encumbered.  The Obligations are not subject 
to redemption, in whole or in part, prior to the individual payment dates 
specified by each participant, at the option of the Company or through the 
operation of a mandatory or optional sinking fund or analogous provision.  A 
participant may receive a hardship withdrawal prior to the scheduled 
distribution date only under exceptional circumstances upon the showing of an 
unforeseeable emergency by the participant.

	The Company reserves the right to amend, modify or terminate the Plan, or 
suspend any of its provisions, at any time and from time to time, except that
no such amendment, modification or termination shall adversely affect the
right of each participant to the amounts credited to or accrued in his or her
deferred compensation account at the time of such amendment, modification or
termination.  The foregoing not withstanding, all rights of a participant under
the Plan to receive a distribution of all or any part of his or her deferred
compensation account shall cease on and as of the date on which it has been
determined by the administrators of the Plan that such participant at any time
(whether before or subsequent to termination of such participant's employment)
acted in a manner inimical to the best interests of the Company.

     	The Obligations are not convertible into securities of the Company.  The 
Obligations will not have the benefit of a negative pledge or any other 
affirmative or negative covenant on the part of the Company.  No trustee has 
been appointed having the authority to take action with respect to the 
Obligations and each participant will be responsible for acting independently 
with respect to, among other things, the giving of notices, responding to any 
requests for consents, waivers, or amendments pertaining to the Obligations, 
enforcing covenants and taking action upon a default.


Item 6.  Indemnification of Directors and Officers.

	Section 145 of the General Corporation Law of Delaware provides as follows:

	145.	Indemnification of officers, directors, employees and agents; insurance 


   	(a)  A corporation may indemnify any person who was or is a party or is 
threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending or completed 
action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or 
investigative (other than an action by or in the right of the corporation) 
by reason of the fact that he is or was a director, officer, employee or 
agent of the corporation, or is or was serving at the request of the 
corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of another 
corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, against 
expenses (including attorneys' fees), judgments, fines and amounts paid in 
settlement actually and reasonably incurred by him in connection with such 
action, suit or proceeding if he acted in good faith and in a manner he 
reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the 
corporation, and, with respect to any criminal action or proceeding, had no 
reasonable cause to believe his conduct was unlawful.  The termination of 
any action, suit or proceeding by judgment, order, settlement, conviction, 
or upon a plea of nolo contendere or its equivalent, shall not, of itself, 
create a presumption that the person did not act in good faith and in a 
manner which he reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best 
interests of the corporation, and, with respect to any criminal action or 
proceeding, had reasonable cause to believe that his conduct was unlawful.

   	(b)  A corporation may indemnify any person who was or is a party or is 
threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending or completed 
action or suit by or in the right of the corporation to procure a judgment 
in its favor by reason of the fact that he is or was a director, officer, 
employee or agent of the corporation, or is or was serving at the request 
of the corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of another 
corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise against 
expenses (including attorneys' fees) actually and reasonably incurred by 
him in connection with the defense or settlement of such action or suit if 
he acted in good faith and in a manner he reasonably believed to be in or 
not opposed to the best interests of the corporation and except that no 
indemnification shall be made in respect of any claim, issue or matter as 
to which such person shall have been adjudged to be liable to the 
corporation unless and only to the extent that the Court of Chancery or the 
court in which such action or suit was brought shall determine upon 
application that, despite the adjudication of liability but in view of all 
the circumstances of the case, such person is fairly and reasonably 
entitled to indemnity for such expenses which the Court of Chancery or such 
other court shall deem proper.  

    	(c)  To the extent that a director, officer, employee or agent of a 
corporation has been successful on the merits or otherwise in defense of 
any action, suit or proceeding referred to in subsections (a) and (b), or 
in defense of any claim, issue or matter therein, he shall be indemnified 
against expenses (including attorneys' fees) actually and reasonably 
incurred by him in connection therewith.

    	(d)  Any indemnification under subsections (a) and (b) of this section 
(unless ordered by a court) shall be made by the corporation only as 
authorized in the specific case upon a determination that indemnification 
of the director, officer, employee or agent is proper in the circumstances 
because he has met the applicable standard of conduct set forth in 
subsections (a) and (b) of this section.  Such determination shall be made 
(1) by a majority vote of the directors who are not parties to such action, 
suit or proceeding, even though less than a quorum, or (2) if there are no 
such directors, or if such directors so direct, by independent legal 
counsel in a written opinion, or (3) by the stockholders.

    	(e)  Expenses (including attorneys' fees) incurred by an officer or 
director in defending any civil, criminal, administrative, or investigative 
action, suit or proceeding may be paid by the corporation in advance of the 
final disposition of such action, suit or proceeding upon receipt of an 
undertaking by or on behalf of such director or officer to repay such 
amount if it shall ultimately be determined that he is not entitled to be 
indemnified by the corporation as authorized in this section.  Such 
expenses (including attorneys' fees) incurred by other employees and agents 
may be so paid upon such terms and conditions, if any, as the board of 
directors deems appropriate.       

    	(f)  The indemnification and advancement of expenses provided by, or 
granted pursuant to, the other subsections of this section shall not be 
deemed exclusive of any other rights to which those seeking indemnification 
or advancement of expenses may be entitled under any by-law, agreement, 
vote of stockholders or disinterested directors or otherwise, both as to 
action in his official capacity and as to action in another capacity while 
holding such office.

    	(g)  A corporation shall have power to purchase and maintain insurance 
on behalf of any person who is or was a director, officer, employee or 
agent of the corporation, or is or was serving at the request of the 
corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of another 
corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise against 
any liability asserted against him and incurred by him in any such 
capacity, or arising out of his status as such, whether or not the 
corporation would have the power to indemnify him against such liability 
under the provisions of this section.

    	(h)  For purposes of this section, references to "the corporation" shall 
include, in addition to the resulting corporation, any constituent 
corporation (including any constituent of a constituent) absorbed in a 
consolidation or merger which, if its separate existence had continued, 
would have had power and authority to indemnify its directors, officers, 
and employees or agents, so that any person who is or was a director, 
officer, employee or agent of such constituent corporation, or is or was 
serving at the request of such constituent corporation as a director, 
officer, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint 
venture, trust or other enterprise, shall stand in the same position under 
the provisions of this section with respect to the resulting or surviving 
corporation as he would have with respect to such constituent corporation 
if its separate existence had continued.

    	(i)  For purposes of this section, references to "other enterprises" 
shall include employee benefit plans; references to "fines" shall include 
any excise taxes assessed on a person with respect to an employee benefit 
plan; and references to "serving at the request of the corporation" shall 
include any service as a director, officer, employee or agent of the 
corporation which imposes duties on, or involves services by, such 
director, officer, employee, or agent with respect to an employee benefit 
plan, its participants, or beneficiaries; and a person who acted in good 
faith and in a manner he reasonably believed to be in the interest of the 
participants and beneficiaries of an employee benefit plan shall be deemed 
to have acted in a manner "not opposed to the best interests of the 
corporation" as referred to in this section.

    	(j)  The indemnification and advancement of expenses provided by, or 
granted pursuant to, this section shall, unless otherwise provided when 
authorized or ratified, continue as to a person who has ceased to be a 
director, officer, employee or agent and shall inure to the benefit of the 
heirs, executors and administrators of such a person.

  	The Certificate of Incorporation of Ford includes the following provisions:



LIMITATION ON LIABILITY OF DIRECTORS;
INDEMNIFICATION AND INSURANCE.


  	5.1.  Limitation on Liability of Directors.   A director of the corporation 
shall not be personally liable to the corporation or its stockholders for 
monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a director, except for 
liability

   	(i)  for any breach of the director's duty of loyalty to the corporation 
or its stockholders,

   	(ii)  for acts or omissions not in good faith or which involve 
intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law,

	   (iii)  under Section 174 of the Delaware General Corporation Law or
 
	   (iv)  for any transaction from which the director derived an improper 
personal benefit.

    	If the Delaware General Corporation Law is amended after approval by the 
stockholders of this subsection 5.1 of Article NINTH to authorize corporate 
action further eliminating or limiting the personal liability of directors,
then the liability of a director of the corporation shall be eliminated or
limited to the fullest extent permitted by the Delaware General Corporation
Law, as so amended.

 	5.2.  Effect of any Repeal or Modification of Subsection 5.1.  Any repeal or 
modification of subsection 5.1 of this Article NINTH by the stockholders of the 
corporation shall not adversely affect any right or protection of a director of 
the corporation existing at the time of such repeal or modification.


 	5.3.  Indemnification and Insurance.

 	5.3a.  Right to Indemnification.   Each person who was or is made a party or 
is threatened to be made a party to or is involved in any action, suit or 
proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative, investigative or otherwise 
(hereinafter a "proceeding"), by reason of the fact that he or she, or a person 
of whom he or she is the legal representative, is or was a director, officer or 
employee of the corporation or is or was serving at the request of the 
corporation as a director, officer or employee of another corporation or of a 
partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, including service with 
respect to employee benefit plans, whether the basis of such proceeding is 
alleged action in an official capacity as a director, officer or employee or in 
any other capacity while serving as a director, officer or employee, shall be 
indemnified and held harmless by the corporation to the fullest extent 
authorized by the Delaware General Corporation Law, as the same exists or may 
hereafter be amended (but, in the case of any such amendment, only to the
extent that such amendment permits the corporation to provide broader
indemnification rights than said law permitted the corporation to provide prior
to such amendment), against all expense, liability and loss (including
penalties, fines, judgments, attorneys' fees, amounts paid or to be paid in
settlement and excise taxes or penalties imposed on fiduciaries with respect to
(i) employee benefit plans, (ii) charitable organizations or (iii) similar
matters) reasonably incurred or suffered by such person in connection
therewith and such indemnification shall continue as to a person who has ceased
to be a director, officer or employee and shall inure to the benefit of his
or her heirs, executors and administrators; provided, however, that the
corporation shall indemnify any such person seeking indemnification in
connection with a proceeding (or part thereof) initiated by such person
(other than pursuant to subsection 5.3b of this Article NINTH) only if such
proceeding (or part thereof) was authorized by the Board of Directors of the
corporation.  The right to indemnification conferred in this subsection 5.3a
of Article NINTH shall be a contract right and shall include the right to be
paid by the corporation the expenses incurred in defending any such
proceeding in advance of its final disposition; provided, however, that, if
the Delaware General Corporation Law requires, the payment of such expenses
incurred by a director or officer in his or her capacity as a director or
officer (and not in any other capacity in which service was or is rendered by
such person while a director or officer, including without limitation,
service to an employee benefit plan) in advance of the final disposition of a
proceeding shall be made only upon delivery to the corporation of an
undertaking, by or on behalf of such director or officer, to repay all
amounts so advanced if it shall ultimately be determined that such director or 
officer is not entitled to be indemnified under this subsection 5.3a of Article 
NINTH or otherwise.

  	5.3b.  Right of Claimant to Bring Suit.  If a claim which the corporation is 
obligated to pay under subsection 5.3a of this Article NINTH is not paid in
full by the corporation within 60 days after a written claim has been received
by the orporation, the claimant may at any time thereafter bring suit against
the corporation to recover the unpaid amount of the claim and, if successful in 
whole or in part, the claimant shall be entitled to be paid also the expense of 
prosecuting such claim.  It shall be a defense to any such action (other than
an action brought to enforce a claim for expenses incurred in defending any 
proceeding in advance of its final disposition where the required undertaking, 
if any is required, has been tendered to the corporation) that the claimant has 
not met the standards of conduct which make it permissible under the Delaware 
General Corporation Law for the corporation to indemnify the claimant for the 
amount claimed, but the burden of proving such defense shall be on the 
corporation.  Neither the failure of the corporation (including its Board of 
Directors, independent legal counsel or its stockholders) to have made a 
determination prior to the commencement of such action that indemnification of 
the claimant is proper in the circumstances because he or she has met the 
applicable standard of conduct set forth in the Delaware General Corporation 
Law, nor an actual determination by the corporation (including its Board of 
Directors, independent legal counsel or its stockholders) that the claimant has 
not met such applicable standard of conduct, shall be a defense to the action
or create a presumption that the claimant has not met the applicable standard
of conduct.

  	5.3c.  Miscellaneous.  The provisions of this Section 5.3 of Article NINTH 
shall cover claims, actions, suits and proceedings, civil or criminal, whether 
now pending or hereafter commenced, and shall be retroactive to cover acts or 
omissions or alleged acts or omissions which heretofore have taken place.  If 
any part of this Section 5.3 of Article NINTH should be found to be invalid or 
ineffective in any proceeding, the validity and effect of the remaining 
provisions shall not be affected.

    	5.3d.  Non-Exclusivity of Rights.   The right to indemnification and the 
payment of expenses incurred in defending a proceeding in advance of its final 
disposition conferred in this Section 5.3 of Article NINTH shall not be 
exclusive of any other right which any person may have or hereafter acquire 
under any statute, provision of the Certificate of Incorporation, By-Law, 
agreement, vote of stockholders or disinterested directors or otherwise.

    	5.3e.  Insurance.   The corporation may maintain insurance, at its 
expense, to protect itself and any director, officer, employee or agent of the 
corporation or another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other 
enterprise against any such expense, liability or loss, whether or not the 
corporation would have the power to indemnify such person against such expense, 
liability or loss under the Delaware General Corporation Law.

    	5.3f.  Indemnification of Agents of the Corporation.  The corporation 
may, to the extent authorized from time to time by the Board of Directors,
grant rights to indemnification, and rights to be paid by the corporation the
expenses incurred in defending any proceeding in advance of its final
disposition, to any agent of the corporation to the fullest extent of the
provisions of this Section 5.3 of Article NINTH with respect to the
indemnification and advancement of expenses of directors, officers and
employees of the corporation.

    	Pursuant to underwriting agreements filed as exhibits to registration 
statements relating to underwritten offerings of securities issued or guaranteed
by Ford, the underwriters have agreed to indemnify Ford, each officer and 
director of Ford and each person, if any, who controls Ford within the meaning 
of the 1933 Act, against certain liabilities, including liabilities under the 
1933 Act.

   	Pursuant to most of Ford's employee benefit plans, including the Deferred 
Compensation Plan, the Supplemental Compensation Plan, the Savings and Stock 
Investment Plan, the Long-Term Incentive Plans and the Stock Option Plans, 
directors, officers and employees of Ford are indemnified against all loss, 
cost, liability or expense resulting from any claim, action, suit or proceeding 
in which such persons are involved by reason of any action taken or failure to 
act under such plans.

  	Ford is insured for liabilities it may incur pursuant to its Certificate of 
Incorporation relating to the indemnification of its directors, officers and 
employees.  In addition, directors, officers and certain key employees are 
insured against certain losses which may arise out of their employment and
which are not recoverable under the indemnification provisions of Ford's
Certificate of Incorporation.

                                                             




Item 8. Exhibits.
	
       
Exhibit 4.1  -  Ford Motor Company Deferred Compensation Plan..  Filed with 
                this Registration Statement.

Exhibit 5.1  -  Opinion of Thomas J. DeZure, an Assistant Secretary and 
                Counsel of Ford Motor Company, with respect to the legality of 
                the securities being registered hereunder.  Filed with this 
                Registration Statement.

Exhibit 5.2	 -  Opinion of William J. Rooney, a Counsel of Ford Motor Company, 
                with respect to compliance requirements of the Employee 
                Retirement Income Security Act of 1974.  Filed with this 
                Registration Statement.

Exhibit 15   -  Letter from Independent Certified Public Accountants regarding
                unaudited interim financial information.  Filed with this 
                Registration Statement.

Exhibit 23   -  Consent of Independent Certified Public Accountants.  Filed 
                with this Registration Statement.

Exhibit 24.1 -  Powers of Attorney authorizing signature.  Filed with this 
                Registration Statement.

Exhibit 24.2 -  Certified resolutions of Board of Directors authorizing 
                signature pursuant to a power of attorney.  Filed with this 
                Registration Statement.





Item 9.  Undertakings.

	(a)  The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes:
	
  	(1)  To file, during any period in which offers or sales are being 
made, a post-effective amendment to this registration statement to include 
any material information with respect to the plan of distribution not 
previously disclosed in the registration statement or any material change 
to such information in the registration statement.

  	(2)  That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the 
Securities Act of 1933, each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed 
to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered 
therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed 
to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.

  	(3)  To remove from registration by means of a post-effective 
amendment any of the securities being registered which remain unsold at 
the termination of the offering.

   	(b)  The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of 
determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each filing of the 
registrant's annual report pursuant to section 13(a) or section 15(d) of the 
Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (and, where applicable, each filing of an 
employee benefit plan's annual report pursuant to section 15(d) of the 
Securities Exchange Act of 1934) that is incorporated by reference in the 
registration statement shall be deemed to be a new registration statement 
relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such 
securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering 
thereof.

   	(c)  Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the 
Securities Act of 1933 may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling 
persons of the registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, 
the registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Securities and 
Exchange Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed 
in the Act and is, therefore, unenforceable.  In the event that a claim for 
indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the 
registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling 
person of the registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or 
proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in 
connection with the securities being registered, the registrant will, unless 
in the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling 
precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether 
such indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Act 
and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.







	The Registrant.  Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 
1933, the registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that 
it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused 
this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, 
thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Dearborn, State of Michigan, on this 
30th day of August, 1995.

                                     			  FORD MOTOR COMPANY
	
	                           				          By:   Alex Trotman*
					                                          (Alex Trotman)	
                                 	    Chairman of the Board of Directors
			

  	Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this 
Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the 
capacities and on the date indicated.
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Signature                           Title                            Date     
- ---------                ----------------------------              ---------
<S>                      <C>                                       <C>
                         Director and Chairman of the
                         Board of Directors, President
                         and Chief Executive Officer
Alex Trotman*            (principal executive officer)
- -----------------
(Alex Trotman)



Colby H. Chandler*               Director                   
- -------------------
(Colby H. Chandler)



Michael D. Dingman*              Director                    August 30, 1995
- ----------------------
(Michael D. Dingman)

   
                                Director and Vice
                         President, Ford Motor Company,  
                           and Director and President 
                           and Chief Operating Officer,
Edsel B. Ford II*            Ford Motor Credit Company
- --------------------
(Edsel B. Ford II)

                                Director and Chairman
William Clay Ford*            of  the Finance Committee
- --------------------
(William Clay Ford)




   Signature                            Title                         Date    
- ------------------             ---------------------              ------------
                                        
                                      
                                        
William Clay Ford, Jr.*                Director
- --------------------------
(William Clay Ford, Jr.)

                                  

Roberto C. Goizueta*                   Director
- -------------------------
(Roberto C. Goizueta)



Irvine O. Hockaday, Jr.*               Director
- --------------------------
(Irvine O. Hockaday, Jr.)



Marie-Josee Kravis*                    Director
- --------------------------
(Marie-Josee Kravis)



Drew Lewis*                            Director
- --------------------------
(Drew Lewis)



Ellen R. Marram*                      Director               August 30, 1995
- -------------------------
(Ellen R. Marram)



Kenneth H. Olsen*                     Director
- -------------------------
(Kenneth H. Olsen)



Carl E. Reichardt*                    Director
- -------------------------
(Carl E. Reichardt)

                                  
                               Director and Vice Chairman 
Louis R. Ross*                and Chief Technical Officer
- ------------------------
(Louis R. Ross)







 Signature                           Title                           Date    
- ----------------               --------------------                ----------


Clifton R. Wharton, Jr.*            Director           
- -------------------------
(Clifton R. Wharton, Jr.)


                                                                    
                              Group Vice President  
                            and Chief Financial Officer
John M. Devine*            (principal financial officer)      August 30, 1995
- -------------------
(John M. Devine)                                                




                                Vice President--Controller
  Murray L. Reichenstein*     (principal accounting officer)      
- -------------------------
 (Murray L. Reichenstein)





*By:  /s/P. J. Sherry, Jr.
     ---------------------     
      (P. J. Sherry, Jr.,
       Attorney-in-Fact)


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                              EXHIBIT INDEX
                                                           Sequential Page
                                                            at Which Found
                                                           (or Incorporated
                                                             by Reference)
                                                           ---------------- 

Exhibit 4.1    	Ford Motor Company Deferred Compensation 
                Plan.  Filed with this Registration 
                Statement.

Exhibit 5.1	    Opinion of Thomas J. DeZure, an Assistant 
                Secretary and Counsel of Ford Motor Company, 
                with respect to the legality of the 
                securities being registered hereunder.  
                Filed with this Registration Statement.

Exhibit 5.2	    Opinion of William J. Rooney, a Counsel of 
                Ford Motor Company, with respect to 
                compliance requirements of the Employee 
                Retirement Income Security Act of 1974.  
                Filed with this Registration Statement.

Exhibit 15	     Letter from Independent Certified Public 
                Accountants regarding unaudited interim 
                financial information.  Filed with this 
                Registration Statement.

Exhibit 23	     Consent of Independent Certified Public 
                Accountants.  Filed with this Registration 
                Statement.

Exhibit 24.1	   Powers of Attorney authorizing signature.  
                Filed with this Registration Statement.

Exhibit 24.2	   Certified resolutions of Board of Directors 
                authorizing signature pursuant to a power of 
                attorney.  Filed with this Registration 
                Statement.
   





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Registration No. 33-_______      
===========================================================================
                         SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                              WASHINGTON, D.C.  20549
                                     _____________

                                        FORM S-8

                                REGISTRATION STATEMENT
                                        UNDER
                              THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933    
                                      ____________

                                   FORD MOTOR COMPANY
                (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

           Delaware                                   38-0549190
(State or other jurisdiction of          (I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)
incorporation or organization)

         The American Road
         Dearborn, Michigan                             48121           
(Address of principal executive offices)              (Zip Code)

                                  __________
       
                 FORD MOTOR COMPANY DEFERRED COMPENSATION PLAN
                            (Full title of the Plan)
                                  ___________

                              J. M. RINTAMAKI, Esq.
                               Ford Motor Company
                                 P. O. Box 1899
                                The American Road
                         Dearborn, Michigan  48121-1899
                                (313) 323-2260
                (Name, address and telephone number, including 
                       area code, of agent for service)
                                  ___________

                         CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
Proposed
                                         Proposed            maximum         
 Title of                                maximum            aggregate         Amount of
securities to     Amount to be        offering price        offering         registration
be registered      registered         per obligation         price**             fee
- -------------     ------------       ----------------      ----------       -------------
Deferred
Compensation
Obligations*       $38,300,000        100%                  $38,300,000      $13,206.99
*	 The Deferred Compensation Obligations are unsecured obligations of Ford 
   Motor Company to pay deferred compensation in the future in accordance with 
   the terms of the Ford Motor Company Deferred Compensation Plan.
**	Estimated solely for the purpose of determining the registration fee.
FORD MOTOR COMPANY DEFERRED COMPENSATION PLAN

                             ______________________

             INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT
                                                                 
Item 3. Incorporation of Documents by Reference.

   	The following documents filed or to be filed with the Securities and
Exchange Commission are incorporated by reference in this Registration
Statement:

	(a)  The latest annual report of Ford Motor Company ("Ford") filed 
pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 
(the "1934 Act") which contains, either directly or indirectly by 
incorporation by reference, certified financial statements for Ford's 
latest fiscal year for which such statements have been filed.

	(b)  All other reports filed pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the 
1934 Act since the end of the fiscal year covered by the annual report 
referred to in paragraph (a) above.

	(c)  The description of Ford's Common Stock contained in registration 
statement no. 2-50792 filed by Ford under the Securities Act of 1933 (the 
"1933 Act").

	All documents subsequently filed by Ford pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c),
14 and 15(d) of the 1934 Act, prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment 
which indicates that all securities offered have been sold or which deregisters 
all securities then remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated by 
reference in this Registration Statement and to be a part hereof from the date 
of filing such documents.

Item 4.  Description of Securities.

	The Ford Motor Company Deferred Compensation Plan (the "Plan") is a 
nonqualified deferred compensation plan for employees of Ford Motor Company
(the "Company") and its subsidiaries who are eligible for awards under the
Ford Motor Company Supplemental Compensation Plan (the "SC Plan").  Under the
Plan, the Company will provide participants with the opportunity to defer
bonus awards under the SC Plan and/or base salary in accordance with the terms
of the Plan.  

	Amounts deferred pursuant to the Plan will be credited by book entry to 
the participant's deferred compensation account.  All such amounts shall be
held in the general funds of the Company and each participant will have the
status of a general unsecured creditor of the Company with respect to his or
her deferred compensation account.  The value of a participant's deferred
compensation account will be based on the performance of the investment
options selected by the participant under the Plan for purposes of accounting
(as if the deferred compensation had been so invested) and not for actual
investment.  Unless otherwise delegated to the Deferred Compensation
Committee, the Compensation and Option Committee of the Board of Directors of
the Company has the sole discretion to determine the investment options
available under the Plan as the measurement mechanism.  A participant may
redesignate amounts credited to his or her deferred compensation account
among the investment options available under the Plan on a daily basis.

	The obligations of the Company under the Plan  (the "Obligations") will be 
unsecured general obligations of the Company to pay in the future the value of 
the deferred compensation account adjusted to reflect the performance, whether 
positive or negative, of the selected measurement investment options during the 
deferral period, in accordance with the terms of the Plan.  The Obligations
will rank pari passu with the other unsecured and unsubordinated indebtedness
of the Company from time to time outstanding.  Each participant shall elect,
with respect to any particular deferral under the Plan, the year in which 
distribution shall be made or distribution upon retirement and the method of 
distribution desired with respect to any such deferral election if the 
participant elected distribution upon retirement, i.e., in a lump sum payment
or in ten annual installments.  Distribution of all or any part of a
participant's deferred compensation account shall be made by the Company on, or
as soon thereafter as practicable, (i) March 15 of the year selected by the
participant for distribution if the participant is an active employee of the
Company on the distribution date, (ii) March 15 following the death or
termination of employment of the participant for reasons other than
retirement, (iii) March 15 following retirement of the participant if the
participant selected distribution upon retirement and a lump sum distribution
was selected, or if the participant selected a particular year for
distribution but retired prior to the year selected, or (iv) March 15 of the
year following retirement of the participant with respect to the first annual
installment and continuing on nine  consecutive anniversaries of such date if
ten installments were selected with respect to the particular deferral, all
in accordance with the terms of the Plan.

   	A participant's interest in his or her deferred compensation account, and 
thus his or her right to the Obligations, generally cannot be assigned, 
transferred, garnished, pledged or encumbered.  The Obligations are not subject 
to redemption, in whole or in part, prior to the individual payment dates 
specified by each participant, at the option of the Company or through the 
operation of a mandatory or optional sinking fund or analogous provision.  A 
participant may receive a hardship withdrawal prior to the scheduled 
distribution date only under exceptional circumstances upon the showing of an 
unforeseeable emergency by the participant.

	The Company reserves the right to amend, modify or terminate the Plan, or 
suspend any of its provisions, at any time and from time to time, except that
no such amendment, modification or termination shall adversely affect the
right of each participant to the amounts credited to or accrued in his or her
deferred compensation account at the time of such amendment, modification or
termination.  The foregoing not withstanding, all rights of a participant under
the Plan to receive a distribution of all or any part of his or her deferred
compensation account shall cease on and as of the date on which it has been
determined by the administrators of the Plan that such participant at any time
(whether before or subsequent to termination of such participant's employment)
acted in a manner inimical to the best interests of the Company.

     	The Obligations are not convertible into securities of the Company.  The 
Obligations will not have the benefit of a negative pledge or any other 
affirmative or negative covenant on the part of the Company.  No trustee has 
been appointed having the authority to take action with respect to the 
Obligations and each participant will be responsible for acting independently 
with respect to, among other things, the giving of notices, responding to any 
requests for consents, waivers, or amendments pertaining to the Obligations, 
enforcing covenants and taking action upon a default.

Item 6.  Indemnification of Directors and Officers.

	Section 145 of the General Corporation Law of Delaware provides as follows:

	145.	Indemnification of officers, directors, employees and agents; insurance 

   	(a)  A corporation may indemnify any person who was or is a party or is 
threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending or completed 
action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or 
investigative (other than an action by or in the right of the corporation) 
by reason of the fact that he is or was a director, officer, employee or 
agent of the corporation, or is or was serving at the request of the 
corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of another 
corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, against 
expenses (including attorneys' fees), judgments, fines and amounts paid in 
settlement actually and reasonably incurred by him in connection with such 
action, suit or proceeding if he acted in good faith and in a manner he 
reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the 
corporation, and, with respect to any criminal action or proceeding, had no 
reasonable cause to believe his conduct was unlawful.  The termination of 
any action, suit or proceeding by judgment, order, settlement, conviction, 
or upon a plea of nolo contendere or its equivalent, shall not, of itself, 
create a presumption that the person did not act in good faith and in a 
manner which he reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best 
interests of the corporation, and, with respect to any criminal action or 
proceeding, had reasonable cause to believe that his conduct was unlawful.

   	(b)  A corporation may indemnify any person who was or is a party or is 
threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending or completed 
action or suit by or in the right of the corporation to procure a judgment 
in its favor by reason of the fact that he is or was a director, officer, 
employee or agent of the corporation, or is or was serving at the request 
of the corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of another 
corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise against 
expenses (including attorneys' fees) actually and reasonably incurred by 
him in connection with the defense or settlement of such action or suit if 
he acted in good faith and in a manner he reasonably believed to be in or 
not opposed to the best interests of the corporation and except that no 
indemnification shall be made in respect of any claim, issue or matter as 
to which such person shall have been adjudged to be liable to the 
corporation unless and only to the extent that the Court of Chancery or the 
court in which such action or suit was brought shall determine upon 
application that, despite the adjudication of liability but in view of all 
the circumstances of the case, such person is fairly and reasonably 
entitled to indemnity for such expenses which the Court of Chancery or such 
other court shall deem proper.  

    	(c)  To the extent that a director, officer, employee or agent of a 
corporation has been successful on the merits or otherwise in defense of 
any action, suit or proceeding referred to in subsections (a) and (b), or 
in defense of any claim, issue or matter therein, he shall be indemnified 
against expenses (including attorneys' fees) actually and reasonably 
incurred by him in connection therewith.

    	(d)  Any indemnification under subsections (a) and (b) of this section 
(unless ordered by a court) shall be made by the corporation only as 
authorized in the specific case upon a determination that indemnification 
of the director, officer, employee or agent is proper in the circumstances 
because he has met the applicable standard of conduct set forth in 
subsections (a) and (b) of this section.  Such determination shall be made 
(1) by a majority vote of the directors who are not parties to such action, 
suit or proceeding, even though less than a quorum, or (2) if there are no 
such directors, or if such directors so direct, by independent legal 
counsel in a written opinion, or (3) by the stockholders.

    	(e)  Expenses (including attorneys' fees) incurred by an officer or 
director in defending any civil, criminal, administrative, or investigative 
action, suit or proceeding may be paid by the corporation in advance of the 
final disposition of such action, suit or proceeding upon receipt of an 
undertaking by or on behalf of such director or officer to repay such 
amount if it shall ultimately be determined that he is not entitled to be 
indemnified by the corporation as authorized in this section.  Such 
expenses (including attorneys' fees) incurred by other employees and agents 
may be so paid upon such terms and conditions, if any, as the board of 
directors deems appropriate.       

    	(f)  The indemnification and advancement of expenses provided by, or 
granted pursuant to, the other subsections of this section shall not be 
deemed exclusive of any other rights to which those seeking indemnification 
or advancement of expenses may be entitled under any by-law, agreement, 
vote of stockholders or disinterested directors or otherwise, both as to 
action in his official capacity and as to action in another capacity while 
holding such office.

    	(g)  A corporation shall have power to purchase and maintain insurance 
on behalf of any person who is or was a director, officer, employee or 
agent of the corporation, or is or was serving at the request of the 
corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of another 
corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise against 
any liability asserted against him and incurred by him in any such 
capacity, or arising out of his status as such, whether or not the 
corporation would have the power to indemnify him against such liability 
under the provisions of this section.

    	(h)  For purposes of this section, references to "the corporation" shall 
include, in addition to the resulting corporation, any constituent 
corporation (including any constituent of a constituent) absorbed in a 
consolidation or merger which, if its separate existence had continued, 
would have had power and authority to indemnify its directors, officers, 
and employees or agents, so that any person who is or was a director, 
officer, employee or agent of such constituent corporation, or is or was 
serving at the request of such constituent corporation as a director, 
officer, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint 
venture, trust or other enterprise, shall stand in the same position under 
the provisions of this section with respect to the resulting or surviving 
corporation as he would have with respect to such constituent corporation 
if its separate existence had continued.

    	(i)  For purposes of this section, references to "other enterprises" 
shall include employee benefit plans; references to "fines" shall include 
any excise taxes assessed on a person with respect to an employee benefit 
plan; and references to "serving at the request of the corporation" shall 
include any service as a director, officer, employee or agent of the 
corporation which imposes duties on, or involves services by, such 
director, officer, employee, or agent with respect to an employee benefit 
plan, its participants, or beneficiaries; and a person who acted in good 
faith and in a manner he reasonably believed to be in the interest of the 
participants and beneficiaries of an employee benefit plan shall be deemed 
to have acted in a manner "not opposed to the best interests of the 
corporation" as referred to in this section.

    	(j)  The indemnification and advancement of expenses provided by, or 
granted pursuant to, this section shall, unless otherwise provided when 
authorized or ratified, continue as to a person who has ceased to be a 
director, officer, employee or agent and shall inure to the benefit of the 
heirs, executors and administrators of such a person.

  	The Certificate of Incorporation of Ford includes the following provisions:

LIMITATION ON LIABILITY OF DIRECTORS;
INDEMNIFICATION AND INSURANCE.

  	5.1.  Limitation on Liability of Directors.   A director of the corporation 
shall not be personally liable to the corporation or its stockholders for 
monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a director, except for 
liability

   	(i)  for any breach of the director's duty of loyalty to the corporation 
or its stockholders,

   	(ii)  for acts or omissions not in good faith or which involve 
intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law,

	   (iii)  under Section 174 of the Delaware General Corporation Law or
 
	   (iv)  for any transaction from which the director derived an improper 
personal benefit.

    	If the Delaware General Corporation Law is amended after approval by the 
stockholders of this subsection 5.1 of Article NINTH to authorize corporate 
action further eliminating or limiting the personal liability of directors,
then the liability of a director of the corporation shall be eliminated or
limited to the fullest extent permitted by the Delaware General Corporation
Law, as so amended.

 	5.2.  Effect of any Repeal or Modification of Subsection 5.1.  Any repeal or 
modification of subsection 5.1 of this Article NINTH by the stockholders of the 
corporation shall not adversely affect any right or protection of a director of 
the corporation existing at the time of such repeal or modification.

 	5.3.  Indemnification and Insurance.

 	5.3a.  Right to Indemnification.   Each person who was or is made a party or 
is threatened to be made a party to or is involved in any action, suit or 
proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative, investigative or otherwise 
(hereinafter a "proceeding"), by reason of the fact that he or she, or a person 
of whom he or she is the legal representative, is or was a director, officer or 
employee of the corporation or is or was serving at the request of the 
corporation as a director, officer or employee of another corporation or of a 
partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, including service with 
respect to employee benefit plans, whether the basis of such proceeding is 
alleged action in an official capacity as a director, officer or employee or in 
any other capacity while serving as a director, officer or employee, shall be 
indemnified and held harmless by the corporation to the fullest extent 
authorized by the Delaware General Corporation Law, as the same exists or may 
hereafter be amended (but, in the case of any such amendment, only to the
extent that such amendment permits the corporation to provide broader
indemnification rights than said law permitted the corporation to provide prior
to such amendment), against all expense, liability and loss (including
penalties, fines, judgments, attorneys' fees, amounts paid or to be paid in
settlement and excise taxes or penalties imposed on fiduciaries with respect to
(i) employee benefit plans, (ii) charitable organizations or (iii) similar
matters) reasonably incurred or suffered by such person in connection
therewith and such indemnification shall continue as to a person who has ceased
to be a director, officer or employee and shall inure to the benefit of his
or her heirs, executors and administrators; provided, however, that the
corporation shall indemnify any such person seeking indemnification in
connection with a proceeding (or part thereof) initiated by such person
(other than pursuant to subsection 5.3b of this Article NINTH) only if such
proceeding (or part thereof) was authorized by the Board of Directors of the
corporation.  The right to indemnification conferred in this subsection 5.3a
of Article NINTH shall be a contract right and shall include the right to be
paid by the corporation the expenses incurred in defending any such
proceeding in advance of its final disposition; provided, however, that, if
the Delaware General Corporation Law requires, the payment of such expenses
incurred by a director or officer in his or her capacity as a director or
officer (and not in any other capacity in which service was or is rendered by
such person while a director or officer, including without limitation,
service to an employee benefit plan) in advance of the final disposition of a
proceeding shall be made only upon delivery to the corporation of an
undertaking, by or on behalf of such director or officer, to repay all
amounts so advanced if it shall ultimately be determined that such director or 
officer is not entitled to be indemnified under this subsection 5.3a of Article 
NINTH or otherwise.

  	5.3b.  Right of Claimant to Bring Suit.  If a claim which the corporation is 
obligated to pay under subsection 5.3a of this Article NINTH is not paid in
full by the corporation within 60 days after a written claim has been received
by the orporation, the claimant may at any time thereafter bring suit against
the corporation to recover the unpaid amount of the claim and, if successful in 
whole or in part, the claimant shall be entitled to be paid also the expense of 
prosecuting such claim.  It shall be a defense to any such action (other than
an action brought to enforce a claim for expenses incurred in defending any 
proceeding in advance of its final disposition where the required undertaking, 
if any is required, has been tendered to the corporation) that the claimant has 
not met the standards of conduct which make it permissible under the Delaware 
General Corporation Law for the corporation to indemnify the claimant for the 
amount claimed, but the burden of proving such defense shall be on the 
corporation.  Neither the failure of the corporation (including its Board of 
Directors, independent legal counsel or its stockholders) to have made a 
determination prior to the commencement of such action that indemnification of 
the claimant is proper in the circumstances because he or she has met the 
applicable standard of conduct set forth in the Delaware General Corporation 
Law, nor an actual determination by the corporation (including its Board of 
Directors, independent legal counsel or its stockholders) that the claimant has 
not met such applicable standard of conduct, shall be a defense to the action
or create a presumption that the claimant has not met the applicable standard
of conduct.

  	5.3c.  Miscellaneous.  The provisions of this Section 5.3 of Article NINTH 
shall cover claims, actions, suits and proceedings, civil or criminal, whether 
now pending or hereafter commenced, and shall be retroactive to cover acts or 
omissions or alleged acts or omissions which heretofore have taken place.  If 
any part of this Section 5.3 of Article NINTH should be found to be invalid or 
ineffective in any proceeding, the validity and effect of the remaining 
provisions shall not be affected.

    	5.3d.  Non-Exclusivity of Rights.   The right to indemnification and the 
payment of expenses incurred in defending a proceeding in advance of its final 
disposition conferred in this Section 5.3 of Article NINTH shall not be 
exclusive of any other right which any person may have or hereafter acquire 
under any statute, provision of the Certificate of Incorporation, By-Law, 
agreement, vote of stockholders or disinterested directors or otherwise.

    	5.3e.  Insurance.   The corporation may maintain insurance, at its 
expense, to protect itself and any director, officer, employee or agent of the 
corporation or another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other 
enterprise against any such expense, liability or loss, whether or not the 
corporation would have the power to indemnify such person against such expense, 
liability or loss under the Delaware General Corporation Law.

    	5.3f.  Indemnification of Agents of the Corporation.  The corporation 
may, to the extent authorized from time to time by the Board of Directors,
grant rights to indemnification, and rights to be paid by the corporation the
expenses incurred in defending any proceeding in advance of its final
disposition, to any agent of the corporation to the fullest extent of the
provisions of this Section 5.3 of Article NINTH with respect to the
indemnification and advancement of expenses of directors, officers and
employees of the corporation.

    	Pursuant to underwriting agreements filed as exhibits to registration 
statements relating to underwritten offerings of securities issued or guaranteed
by Ford, the underwriters have agreed to indemnify Ford, each officer and 
director of Ford and each person, if any, who controls Ford within the meaning 
of the 1933 Act, against certain liabilities, including liabilities under the 
1933 Act.

   	Pursuant to most of Ford's employee benefit plans, including the Deferred 
Compensation Plan, the Supplemental Compensation Plan, the Savings and Stock 
Investment Plan, the Long-Term Incentive Plans and the Stock Option Plans, 
directors, officers and employees of Ford are indemnified against all loss, 
cost, liability or expense resulting from any claim, action, suit or proceeding 
in which such persons are involved by reason of any action taken or failure to 
act under such plans.

  	Ford is insured for liabilities it may incur pursuant to its Certificate of 
Incorporation relating to the indemnification of its directors, officers and 
employees.  In addition, directors, officers and certain key employees are 
insured against certain losses which may arise out of their employment and
which are not recoverable under the indemnification provisions of Ford's
Certificate of Incorporation.

                                                             

Item 8. Exhibits.
	
       
Exhibit 4.1  -  Ford Motor Company Deferred Compensation Plan..  Filed with 
                this Registration Statement.

Exhibit 5.1  -  Opinion of Thomas J. DeZure, an Assistant Secretary and 
                Counsel of Ford Motor Company, with respect to the legality of 
                the securities being registered hereunder.  Filed with this 
                Registration Statement.

Exhibit 5.2	 -  Opinion of William J. Rooney, a Counsel of Ford Motor Company, 
                with respect to compliance requirements of the Employee 
                Retirement Income Security Act of 1974.  Filed with this 
                Registration Statement.

Exhibit 15   -  Letter from Independent Certified Public Accountants regarding
                unaudited interim financial information.  Filed with this 
                Registration Statement.

Exhibit 23   -  Consent of Independent Certified Public Accountants.  Filed 
                with this Registration Statement.

Exhibit 24.1 -  Powers of Attorney authorizing signature.  Filed with this 
                Registration Statement.

Exhibit 24.2 -  Certified resolutions of Board of Directors authorizing 
                signature pursuant to a power of attorney.  Filed with this 
                Registration Statement.

Item 9.  Undertakings.

	(a)  The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes:
	
  	(1)  To file, during any period in which offers or sales are being 
made, a post-effective amendment to this registration statement to include 
any material information with respect to the plan of distribution not 
previously disclosed in the registration statement or any material change 
to such information in the registration statement.

  	(2)  That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the 
Securities Act of 1933, each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed 
to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered 
therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed 
to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.

  	(3)  To remove from registration by means of a post-effective 
amendment any of the securities being registered which remain unsold at 
the termination of the offering.

   	(b)  The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of 
determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each filing of the 
registrant's annual report pursuant to section 13(a) or section 15(d) of the 
Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (and, where applicable, each filing of an 
employee benefit plan's annual report pursuant to section 15(d) of the 
Securities Exchange Act of 1934) that is incorporated by reference in the 
registration statement shall be deemed to be a new registration statement 
relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such 
securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering 
thereof.

   	(c)  Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the 
Securities Act of 1933 may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling 
persons of the registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, 
the registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Securities and 
Exchange Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed 
in the Act and is, therefore, unenforceable.  In the event that a claim for 
indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the 
registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling 
person of the registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or 
proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in 
connection with the securities being registered, the registrant will, unless 
in the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling 
precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether 
such indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Act 
and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.

	The Registrant.  Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 
1933, the registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that 
it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused 
this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, 
thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Dearborn, State of Michigan, on this 
30th day of August, 1995.

                                     			  FORD MOTOR COMPANY
	
	                           				          By:   Alex Trotman*
					                                          (Alex Trotman)	
                                 	    Chairman of the Board of Directors
			

  	Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this 
Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the 
capacities and on the date indicated.
Signature                           Title                            Date     
- ---------                ----------------------------              ---------
Director and Chairman of the
                         Board of Directors, President
                         and Chief Executive Officer
Alex Trotman*            (principal executive officer)
- -----------------
(Alex Trotman)

Colby H. Chandler*               Director                   
- -------------------
(Colby H. Chandler)

Michael D. Dingman*              Director                    August 30, 1995
- ----------------------
(Michael D. Dingman)

   
                                Director and Vice
                         President, Ford Motor Company,  
                           and Director and President 
                           and Chief Operating Officer,
Edsel B. Ford II*            Ford Motor Credit Company
- --------------------
(Edsel B. Ford II)

                                Director and Chairman
William Clay Ford*            of  the Finance Committee
- --------------------
(William Clay Ford)

   Signature                            Title                         Date    
- ------------------             ---------------------              ------------
                                        
                                      
                                        
William Clay Ford, Jr.*                Director
- --------------------------
(William Clay Ford, Jr.)

                                  

Roberto C. Goizueta*                   Director
- -------------------------
(Roberto C. Goizueta)

Irvine O. Hockaday, Jr.*               Director
- --------------------------
(Irvine O. Hockaday, Jr.)

Marie-Josee Kravis*                    Director
- --------------------------
(Marie-Josee Kravis)

Drew Lewis*                            Director
- --------------------------
(Drew Lewis)

Ellen R. Marram*                      Director               August 30, 1995
- -------------------------
(Ellen R. Marram)

Kenneth H. Olsen*                     Director
- -------------------------
(Kenneth H. Olsen)

Carl E. Reichardt*                    Director
- -------------------------
(Carl E. Reichardt)

                                  
                               Director and Vice Chairman 
Louis R. Ross*                and Chief Technical Officer
- ------------------------
(Louis R. Ross)

 Signature                           Title                           Date    
- ----------------               --------------------                ----------

Clifton R. Wharton, Jr.*            Director           
- -------------------------
(Clifton R. Wharton, Jr.)

                                                                    
                              Group Vice President  
                            and Chief Financial Officer
John M. Devine*            (principal financial officer)      August 30, 1995
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(John M. Devine)                                                

                                Vice President--Controller
  Murray L. Reichenstein*     (principal accounting officer)      
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 (Murray L. Reichenstein)

*By:  /s/P. J. Sherry, Jr.
     ---------------------     
      (P. J. Sherry, Jr.,
       Attorney-in-Fact)
EXHIBIT INDEX
                                                           Sequential Page
                                                            at Which Found
                                                           (or Incorporated
                                                             by Reference)
                                                           ---------------- 

Exhibit 4.1    	Ford Motor Company Deferred Compensation 
                Plan.  Filed with this Registration 
                Statement.

Exhibit 5.1	    Opinion of Thomas J. DeZure, an Assistant 
                Secretary and Counsel of Ford Motor Company, 
                with respect to the legality of the 
                securities being registered hereunder.  
                Filed with this Registration Statement.

Exhibit 5.2	    Opinion of William J. Rooney, a Counsel of 
                Ford Motor Company, with respect to 
                compliance requirements of the Employee 
                Retirement Income Security Act of 1974.  
                Filed with this Registration Statement.

Exhibit 15	     Letter from Independent Certified Public 
                Accountants regarding unaudited interim 
                financial information.  Filed with this 
                Registration Statement.

Exhibit 23	     Consent of Independent Certified Public 
                Accountants.  Filed with this Registration 
                Statement.

Exhibit 24.1	   Powers of Attorney authorizing signature.  
                Filed with this Registration Statement.

Exhibit 24.2	   Certified resolutions of Board of Directors 
                authorizing signature pursuant to a power of 
                attorney.  Filed with this Registration 
                Statement.
   

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