Ford Motor (F) will start paying a quarterly dividend of $0.05 per share in the first quarter of 2012. This is the first dividend payment since 2006, when the car maker cancelled its quarterly dividend of $0.05 per share, preceded by a 50 percent dividend cut earlier that year.

The first dividend will be paid on March 1, 2012 to shareholders of record on January 31, 2012. The ex-date for the quarterly  dividend of  5 cents per share is January 27, 2012.

Ford Motor Company designs, manufactures, markets and services a full line of Ford cars, trucks, SUVs, electrified vehicles and Lincoln luxury vehicles, provides financial services through Ford Motor Credit Company. Ford Motor Company is based in Dearborn, Michigan. Ford was incorporated in Delaware in 1919. Ford acquired the business of a Michigan company, also known as Ford Motor Company, which had been incorporated in 1903 to produce and sell automobiles designed and engineered by Henry Ford.