Sales of its trucks rose 10.9 percent, to 34,893 units.
Construction of single-family homes rose 2.1 percent, to 1.09 million units.
Sales of domestic light trucks rose 6.5 percent, to 143,011 units.
Sales of domestic light trucks rose 11 percent in late July, to 149,210 units, from 134,444 a year ago.
For 2004, the company projected that cellphone sales would rise 17 percent, to 65 million units.
Sales rose 18 percent, to 40,000 units, from 34,000 a year ago.
Car production may rise by 2.1 percent, to 7.8 million units.
Ford's light truck sales rose 32.6 percent, to 33,850 units.
Light-truck sales rose 46.9 percent, to 16,431 units, a record for the period.
He said sales volume should rise to two million units in 1993.