South America's Auto Boom: First of three parts

Brazil, Argentina buoy Detroit's automakers

SÃO PAULO -- Whoever says Ford Motor Co. and General Motors Corp. can't make money in the car business has never been to South America. - 08/21/2007

Success will mean little if U.S. plans fail

SÃO BERNARDO DO CAMPO, Brazil -- Silvio Illi would seem to have little to worry about as he walks the line at Ford Motor Co.'s São Bernardo plant outside São Paulo. - 08/21/2007

Labor leader's spirit of cooperation gets job done

SÃO BERNARDO DO CAMPO, Brazil -- If the South American labor movement has a face, it is José Lopez Feijóo's. - 08/21/2007

South America's Auto Boom: Second of three parts

FORD'S TEST BED: Brazil's Camaçari plant is model for the future

At Ford Motor Co.'s factory here, a group of Visteon Corp. workers connect the wiring in a dashboard module for a Ford EcoSport. Next to them, Lear Corp. employees are building seats for the same vehicle. - 08/22/2007

Brazil is road map for U.S. rebound

SÃO BERNARDO DO CAMPO, Brazil -- If Ford Americas President Mark Fields seems overly confident when he talks about the company's turnaround plan, it's because he has already seen it work -- in Brazil. - 08/22/2007

Fields cut his teeth in South America

DEARBORN -- As president of Ford Motor Co.'s Americas division, Mark Fields oversees one of the company's most profitable divisions -- South America -- even as he struggles to return its biggest money loser -- North America -- to profitability. - 08/22/2007

Interactive: A tour of Ford's Brazil plant

- 08/22/2007

South America's Auto Boom: Third of three parts

Ethanol nation: Brazil finds energy freedom with sugar-based fuel

Pull into any fuel station in Brazil and the question will be the same: "Álcool ou gasolina?" Ethanol or gasoline? - 08/23/2007