The numbers make Ford sound like a classic value investment.

Ford actually had more money in the bank than Toyota, which reported $40.44 billion in cash and short-term investments; General Motors, which only had around $23.46 billion in the bank on the same day; Honda, which had $14.23 billion in the bank on that date; and Volkswagen (OTC: VLKAF), which had $42.13 billion in the bank at the end of the third quarter.