NEW YORK (Standard&Poor's) March 23, 2009--Standard&Poor's Ratings Services today said that its corporate credit rating and other ratings on Ford Motor Co. (CC/Negative/--) are not immediately affected by Ford's status update on recent debt tender offers. The offers for Ford debt are being conducted by Ford Motor Credit Co. (Ford Credit), with the exception of a conversion offer for convertible notes, which is being conducted by Ford. The counterparty credit ratings and issue-level ratings on Ford Credit (CCC+/Negative/--) and FCE Bank PLC (B-/Negative/--) remain unchanged. We consider the pending tender offers as distressed exchanges and, as such, tantamount to a default under our criteria. Upon completion of the first tender offer--which we believe will be the