What I have suggested works. No issues, no "most likely". It works.
My goal isn't a pissing match, just a clarification of content marketing. Again, the goals of any content marketing campaign are:
Traffic to your website
Email Subscriptions (Not typically relevant in the auto industry)
Likes on the page level of your website
Shares on the page level of your website
Links to your website
The metrics people measure are immediate traffic, and anything that can potentially lead to traffic in the future (known and assumed SEO factors). With that in mind, copying articles from Ford, and posting that same exact article on your blog would put you into the duplicate content realm. Google has several algorithms that look for this style of spam, and will either penalize the website or ignore the article.
So, copying articles from Ford to your Blog is not a sustainable solution for continued content marketing success. You are a Marketing Consultant, so I have no idea which website you have been successfully generated website page level Likes, Shares, Links or traffic. Sharing articles from Ford on your Facebook does lead to an increase in Facebook likes. I'm pretty sure that's what you are referring to. However, that does not generate traffic or increase your websites authority, the crutch of a successful content marketing campaign.
A good example of this would be Elliot Hulse (Lots of cruse words):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkVOlnoIJ_o
The intent of his content marketing is to sell is workout programs. He gives out free and helpful info on Youtube, and then pushes people to visit his website in the descriptions. He then works to convert these people to his email list to push his workout programs. Over his 3 Youtube Channels, split up to target specific demographics, he has over 1,000,000 subscribers.