Ford Hit by Japan Quake Effects
4 Apr 2011, 05:25 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Over three weeks have passed since the massive earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan brought to their knees both lives and industries, and the effects that have been felt in full that faithful day c...
New Ford Fiesta ST Coming in 2012
1 Apr 2011, 12:41 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / A hotter version of the Ford Fiesta ST will go on sale late next year and will compete against Renault’s brilliant Clio 200, the SEAT Ibiza Cupra and Volkswagen’s Polo GTI, according to ...
Ford Smart Intersection Explained
1 Apr 2011, 05:23 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The automotive industry is in creative turmoil these days, as the emergence from the financial crisis of 2009 brought with it an explosion of plans automakers have for the future. Most of those plan...
UAW GM Strategy: Union to Ask for Jobs
1 Apr 2011, 05:06 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The heat is building in the US, as the UAW and the American auto makers are getting ready to battle it out later this summer, when the auto makers will have to renegotiate the contracts for the unio...
Ford Working on First Digital Child Crash Dummy
31 Mar 2011, 14:46 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / American manufacturer Ford announced it is making a bold step in developing future safety research methods, by beginning work on the world’s first digital human child body models that could be...
Ford Focus Global Touring Car Ready for Action
31 Mar 2011, 09:56 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Team Aon’s new Ford Focus BTCC has undergone the final shakedown test before this’ weekend’s Brands Hatch season opener. The final tweaks were made at Ford’s Dunton Engineeri...
Ford Giving Newly Assembled Focus 30-Mile Shakedown
30 Mar 2011, 11:21 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Ford is treating the launch of the new Focus like it’s made of glass. This is probably its most important global product, so the carmaker wants a flawless market arrival. Not being contentment...
Lincoln MKZ Hybrid Sales Exceed Ford's Expectations
30 Mar 2011, 08:17 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Seeing as the 2011 Lincoln MKZ is just a Ford Fusion Hybrid with a new face and shiny wheels, it comes as no surprise that it achieves the same 41 mpg (5.74 l/100km) fuel efficiency figure. What is ...
Increased CNG-Powered Vehicles Sales for Ford
30 Mar 2011, 07:24 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The crisis in the oil rich Arab countries that started this year is continuing to bring the oil prices at new high levels, transforming, in turn, what was once an affordable price at the pump into a...
Nissan Raps the Ford Focus, Ford Takes Offense, Sues
26 Mar 2011, 10:52 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / One minute, twenty six seconds of Brazilian rap, adorned with several chubby Brazilian models in bikinis and a Ford Focus in the background. This, apparently, is the new commercial Nissan has ordere...
New Ford Focus Well Equipped for Potholed Roads
25 Mar 2011, 14:10 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Despite the UK government’s plan to fix the roads, the new Focus is being developed for the global car market, so it should be able to deal with rough road conditions. That’s why Ford wa...
Ford C-MAX and Grand C-MAX Score Two Fleet News Awards
25 Mar 2011, 08:10 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Ford C-MAX and Grand C-MAX received two awards at the recent Fleet News ceremony, namely the New Company Car of the Year 2011" as well as "Best People Carrier". The decision was made ...
Ford Releases New Video of Focus ST
24 Mar 2011, 13:24 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Ford’s European division has just released another clip showing the newest incarnation of the Focus ST hothatch that is expected to arrive early next year. There is nothing new or revolutionar...
Lotus to Fit ForceDrive into Electric Transit Connect
24 Mar 2011, 10:00 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / On Tuesday, American manufacturer Ford announced it had signed the first contract to deliver the electric Transit Connect in Europe with the Norwegian Post. Two days later, Azure, the company that p...
Ford Produces the 400,000th Focus in Russia
23 Mar 2011, 15:35 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / With the new version of the Ford Focus getting ready for launch on markets around the world, the American manufacturer still finds time to celebrate a production milestone achieved at the Vsevolozhs...
Fords Line Up for the Bangkok International Motor Show
23 Mar 2011, 14:53 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is slowly beginning to represent for the global auto makers a very bright future as far as sales numbers are concerned. This is why more and more o...
AT&T to Bring Wireless Power to the Ford Focus Electric
23 Mar 2011, 08:50 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Being a new breed of vehicles in the Ford stables, the Focus electric, the first passenger electric vehicle to be launched by the American manufacturer, needs more than the ability to use electricit...
Ford Fiesta Gets Enhanced for 2012
23 Mar 2011, 08:22 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The Fiesta model launched by Ford two years ago has proven to be a huge success on most of the markets it is currently present on. But, as it happens with any man-made object, the Fiesta was to slow...
UAW Sets Its Sights on Ford
23 Mar 2011, 06:58 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Ford has managed to survive 2009 without going into bankruptcy, as did the other tow major American car makers, GM and Chrysler. The car maker says its survival is owed to the One Ford strategy, a s...
Norwegian Post, First European User of the Transit Connect Electric
22 Mar 2011, 12:49 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / After deploying a sizeable fleet of Transit Connect electric vehicles throughout North America, Ford is slowly beginning to make its entrance onto the European market with the commercial vehicle it ...