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Wholesale and dealer loan receivables with entities (primarily dealers) that are reported as consolidated subsidiaries of Ford.

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Threshold of whether it is probable that finance receivables will be held for the foreseeable future

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The amount of uncollected interest receivable excluded from finance receivable.

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Ratio of wholesale loans to dealers to total dealer financing, expressed as a percentage.

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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