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FordFord Drops Ingeni DesignFord Drops Ingeni Design
First Standard & Poor's cut Ford Motor Co.'s debt rating to the lowest level above junk bonds, and now the auto maker's chief designer J Mays says the Ingeni European studio will close. The two events are inexorably linked. Ford no longer can afford the luxury of a studio, largely funded by its Premier Automotive Group Land Rover, Volvo, Jaguar and Aston Martin that's effectively outside the traditional