If you’re a Ford fanatic—or at all interested in the automotive business—Hau Thai-Tang is a name you should know. His career with Ford spanned 35 years and three continents, with assignments varying ...

DETROIT — Hau Thai-Tang spent the final days of his nearly 35-year career at Ford Motor Co. in the same place where he got his first big break: Flat Rock Assembly Plant. The automaker organized a ...

DEARBORN, Mich. — Hau Thai-Tang was still a car guy in the making when he saw his first Mustang, a white Mach One, in Saigon during the Vietnam War. He was about 5, and that American muscle car -- on ...

As U.S. automakers struggle to maintain market share against foreign competitors, Ford is hoping a new design for one of its classic cars will help turn around its fortunes. Redesigning the Mustang ...

The Ford Mustang has been the driving force in Hau Thai-Tang’s life. Thai-Tang saw a Mustang as a kid growing up in wartime Saigon. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free ...

AS THE POWERFUL director of Ford’s Special Vehicle Team, Hau Thai-Tang was the driving force behind the company’s move to rejuvenate the Shelby Cobra this year. He’s just been elevated to his current ...

Ford Motor Co. engineers had a clean sheet of paper to redesign the Mustang. Hau Thai-Tang, the Mustang's Vietnamese-born chief engineer, believes he made the most of it. Thai-Tang says he and other ...

Ford Motor Co. is starting the second generation of One Ford, the company's all-embracing plan to get Ford's global operations all on the same page, and to wring efficiency and economies of scale out ...

When a fire at a key supplier threatened to cripple production of the profit-rich F-150 pickup in May, Hau Thai-Tang led an extraordinary effort to fix the problem within days that involved camping ...

Thai-Tang, Ford’s chief industrial platform officer, plans to retire on Oct. 1 after a career with the company spanning more than 34 years. During that time, he’s overseen development of multiple ...

DEARBORN, Mich.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Hau Thai-Tang, Ford’s chief product platform and operations officer, will discuss key elements of the Ford+ plan for growth and value creation in a fireside chat with ...