Joe,
They don't figure profit like we do.If they made $10 million profit last year in this quarter and $ 6 million this year, they would say they lost $4 million. Same as Exon reporting those huge losses even though they actually made several millions profit, it was down from the same quarter the year before.
Edit: Joe here is a link that will sort of explain what Ford is doing.
http://www.reuters.com/article/busin...e=businessNews
Ron