It is the highest quarterly profit for six years and comes against a loss of $1.4 billion in the same period of 2009.
Ford said a recovering economy had a large say in the results.
It also said that it expected to be profitable in every quarter this year.
By Peter BohanU.S. auto sales dropped by 18 percent in 2008 to a 16-year low of 13.2 million, pushing financially strapped General Motors and Chrysler to the brink of collapse.