AUTOMOBILES Payouts for low performance Is insult being added to injury? By fall, Ford Motor Co. is planning to offer more than 5,000 white-collar workers cash and other incentives to leave the company. But this plan is different from previous early-retirement offers. Only workers deemed "low performers" or "average/solid performers with limited potential" will be eligible to participate, according to a Ford internal memo obtained by the Detroit Free Press. A company spokeswoman ...