MUMBAI, India â Ford Motor Co. is furthering its push into Asia, announcing plans for eight new vehicle models in India and a $350 million investment with partner Mazda Motor Corp. in their pickup truck plant in Thailand. The Dearborn, MI based automaker says Asia will account for 70 percent of the company's global growth in the next decade, most of it from China and India. "We have massive expansion across the region," Joe Hinrichs, president of Ford Asia Pacific and Africa, said in an interview Thursday.