Ford Motor Company employee Andrew Sarkisian, right, smiles after driving a 2009 Ford Focus as other employees get their turn to test drive the vehicle at Ford's proving ground in Dearborn, Mich., Monday, Aug. 18, 2008. As Ford faces perhaps the most difficult period of its history, the company is trying to boost employee confidence by showing them, and letting them drive, the vehicles it hopes will pull the automaker out of a sales slump.
(AP Photo/Paul Sancya)