Because of state franchise laws that bankruptcy circumvents, it has only been able to trim the ranks of its dealers by 15% since 2005 to 3,700.

• 由于政府的特权法规的限制，福特从2005到现在仅削减了15%25的经销商，现在还剩下了3700个。而破产的企业则可以不受这个法规的限制。