Sales at that level would trigger the need for as much as 13 billion U.S. dollars in loans, Ford told Congress last month. That would undercut the company's attempt to win customers by portraying itself as Detroit's healthiest automaker, after GM and Chrysler both sought federal financial aid.
The U.S. automakers and industry analysts agree that domestic sales will fall again this year after tumbling 18 percent in 2008 to 13.2 million units, short of the annual average of about 16 million over the past decade. The size of the plunge is the only dispute.
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