Ford News

The reverberations from Ford’s decision to abandon the mid-size truck market are beginning to be felt. The last 2011 Ford Ranger rolled off the assembly line back in December of 2010, and since then, loyal Ranger consumers have been jumping ship in favor or the competition’s mid-size truck offerings. According ...    Read more

Summer is a big sales time for carmakers. Because they have to clear out inventory for new cars coming in the Indian days of Summer for the next model year, they're willing to make some deals. The closer it gets to fall, the more they're willing to give. Consequently, because it's ...    Read more

Over the past decade or so, the big three truck makers (Ford, Chevrolet, and Chrysler) have seen towing capacity skyrocket to never-before-seen levels. For example, since debuting in 2003, the GMC Sierra HD has seen its towing capacity grow 43 percent from 16,100 pounds to 23,100 pounds. So how do ...    Read more

At a glance, it may seem that the pickup truck, the last bastion of cathedral-strength manliness, is taking an assault. First, there were reports of aluminum trucks. Then, Tesla—of all companies—wanting to try its hand at an all-electric pickup truck. And with a report that Ford and Toyota ...    Read more

It's hard to fathom, but apparently not everyone feels the need to actually drive a car before they shell out large sums of cash for it. According to a new study, slightly more than one in ten buyers—11.4 percent to be exact—skip the test drive, already armed with loads of ...    Read more

Ignition's episode 29 takes us back to our sandbox days, Motor Trend style. When you're given a Ford F-150 Raptor, it doesn't make a lot of sense to head to a track. Employing wisdom, the Ignition Crew take the raptor for a little off-roading in the sand. The Raptor is ...    Read more

There are two schools of thought to the yellow traffic light: slow down, or go faster. Figuring out which one is appropriate in a given circumstance can cause quite a dilemma at times. It's so frequent that there's an official term for it: the "dilemma zone." We didn't make that up ...    Read more

It must never rain in Europe. The Ford Transit Connect is undergoing a recall for its windshield wipers, which may detach from the van and become even less effective than before. The wiper arm isn't properly riveted down to the motor, which means that windshield clearing will be poor to begin ...    Read more

Are you the sort of person who has a civic duty to stop at garage sales? Do you have so much leisure time that you're always up for window shopping, from mall to mall and even in between? Are you the sort of impulse buyer who singlehandedly props up the ...    Read more

Like Charles Darwin--or the myriad automotive nameplates at the beginning of the 20th century--cars are at a dramatic "survival of the fittest" moment. For hybrids, electric vehicles, hydrogen, natural gas, and other forms of fuel-efficient propulsion, some factors will weed out the weak ones: a long range, easy refueling, and ...    Read more

Pickup trucks commercials used to show us what a vehicle could haul as it trudged up a mountain, likely set to Bob Seger music. Today, trucks are supposed to be like sports cars, only off-road. We're moving more toward prerunner, Baja racing-style trucks. And automakers are moving with the trend. First ...    Read more

You've probably heard how terrible are American-made cars. Or the cheapness of Korean vehicles. Or German autos and their legendary lack of reliability and high costs of repair. How true are these statements? Not very. "None of them are really awful anymore,” said Jim Hall, managing director of the consulting firm ...    Read more

The 2014 Ford Fiesta has been spotted: and in these clear spy photos, there's little surprise that the next Fiesta will carry on the Fusion's swoopy grille. Ford has only been selling the Fiesta in America for two years, but for the rest of the world the Fiesta's an old fogey: ...    Read more

Hydrogen-powered cars by 2015? Impossible, you say! Well, Toyota begs to differ. Actually, the Japanese automaker is simply following up to its 2008 announcement to sell fuel-cell cars by 2015. Toyota's Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with BMW to develop a fuel cell system gives added weight to the car maker's ...    Read more

Consumer Reports is the 800-pound gorilla in the proverbial undersized playground sandbox of the automotive industry, and more often than not, what its staff says has the same gravitas as Moses on the rock. If they don't like a car, chances are that it's breaking news from the fastidiously obsessive ...    Read more

For Ford, 47, not 42, is the answer to Life, The Universe, and Everything. The Ford C-MAX hybrid gets 47 mpg in the city, 47 mpg highway, and—we'll award a consolation prize if you don't get this one—a 47 mpg combined mileage rating from the ...    Read more

It's good to be the king. There are only three men that are in charge of designing every single Ford and Lincoln sold around the world: J Mays (second from left), Martin Smith (third from right) and Moray Callum (on the right). They plan global Ford styling, the company's design language, and ...    Read more

You know the old joke about calling over your kids to program the VCR? Connect your PC to the printer? Or even find and download an app? Well, it's not funny when you can't figure out how to change the fan speed in a new car's climate control system or, ...    Read more

Now in the last leg of summer, we're starting to see what's in store for the fall, otherwise known as the heart of the 2013 rollout season. Ushering in new cars and trucks this week are Lexus and Nissan. There will surely be more coming up this month, especially with the ...    Read more

The Ford Motor Company has commenced production of the automatic transmission for the Ford C-Max Hybrid, C-Max Energi plug-in hybrid, Fusion Hybrid, Fusion Energi, and Lincoln MKZ Hybrid, hiring 225 new employees in the process. In a $220 million investment, Ford has upgraded its Van Dyke manufacturing facility in Sterling Heights, ...    Read more

The likeliness of gas prices receding in the unpredictable fashion it rises is just short of impossible. Yet that hasn't stopped Americans from driving; they're just not going as far. While hybrid and electric vehicles have become more popular in recent years, a study conducted by the National Petroleum Council, ...    Read more

A 2011 recall left the Ford Motor Company scurrying around to fix the mess that was its Windstar minivan, taking in 425,000 vans to fix their potentially cracking frames. It appears that winter-weather rust and the Ford Windstar didn't quite get along too well with one another, with the minivan ...    Read more

The Japanese automakers are back. That's what analysts are citing as the source of sales slowdown for domestic automakers Ford and General Motors. From slowing demand for the Corolla-competing Chevrolet Cruze to Toyota's almost inevitable claim as world's number one automaker—again—sales-wise, analysts believe pent-up demand for "Made in ...    Read more

In the midsize car arena, there's a storm brewing. A battle of the titans, if you will—it's the thinking man's Ali vs Fraizer, with Don Dunphy calling the shots. Honda is set to launch its newest Accord in September, as integral to the company as the iPod is to Apple. ...    Read more

The final full week of July 2012 has come to a close but it didn't go quietly. We kicked the week off with the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration opening an investigation into 335,000 Chrysler Group vehicles; specifically, the Ram 1500 made for the 2009 and 2010 model years for ...    Read more