Ford News

Did you ever wonder why you had to put 91-octane fuel in your car when the 87-octane stuff is 20 cents cheaper per gallon? Maybe you ignored your car's recommended octane rating altogether, putting in the lower-grade stuff because it was cheaper or the higher-grade formula because you figured you ...    Read more

"We do not discuss future products." Auto journalists hear that sentence more than any other every year. But sometimes, especially amid the excitement for upcoming new cars making their debuts--and maybe aided by a little "social lubricant"--even the most polished P.R. pros slip up. People say things. Rumors get dispelled, ...    Read more

It's official. Today, Ford announced that the EPA has rated the 2013 Fusion Energi at 108 MPGe city, 92 MPGe highway and 100 MPGe combined. The EPA also concluded that the 2013 Ford Fusion Energi carries a 620-mile range and can go up to 21 miles running strictly on electricity. ...    Read more

Top brass at American Honda called out automakers for inflating their fuel economy numbers this week, which strikes us as a little hypocritical. At the Automotive News World Congress, executive vice president John Mendel said, "Aggressive fuel-economy claims that turned out to be not so accurate puts pressure on all of us. Competitive ...    Read more

If you're into the pickup truck segment, then you know that it's hard to look anywhere on the road without coming across a Ford F-150. Even if you're not into cars or trucks whatsoever, you know when you see one. You're not alone though as the Ford F-Series has been ...    Read more

And just like that, the 2013 North American International Auto Show has come and gone. Some notable vehicle to debut in Detroit included the 2014 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray, 2014 Lexus IS, and the party-crashing 2015 Ford Atlas Concept. The Detroit auto show also brought us a few concept ...    Read more

Like the muscle car's war of numbers, the truck segment is extremely competitive.  How competitive you ask? Let's just say competitive enough to unveil a new model that isn't scheduled to be released until sometime late next year. That's exactly what Ford did, dropping the Atlas Concept, a-closer-to-production-than-not preview of ...    Read more

Great news for the American laborer: Ford Motor Company is hiring. Well, actually, Ford has been hiring for about a year now. This news isn't entirely new, though, since Ford has previously promised the UAW that it would add 12,000 jobs by 2015. And through the third quarter of 2012, the ...    Read more

Your friends have probably told you that your music tastes are terrible for some time now, you Fallout Boy-swooning driver, you. Or maybe they criticized your taste in Nickelback or the Black Eyed Peas. Scientific research corroborates with their badmouthing: Their music can make you a bad driver. According to research from the ...    Read more

Last year at the Consumer Electronics Show, Ford introduced AppLink to work through its Sync voice-activated infotainment suite, giving users access to every affiliated National Public Radio station they could ever want. Ford said it was giving development kits to other companies to use but didn't say which ones. Turns ...    Read more

Hybrid and electric vehicles have many positives, primarily fuel economy. An electric motor generates all the necessary power to get up and go, without the assistance of a noisy gasoline engine. But that lack of noise is one of the drawbacks: the absence of engine noise means pedestrians have a ...    Read more

While there's a national conversation about driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol and the effects those have in traffic accidents and fatalities, we don't often hear about driving under extreme fatigue. Truth is, driving while tired is dangerous, too. According the the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration in collaboration ...    Read more

While we're not quite back at the pre-recession high of 17 million vehicles sold in the U.S. in a single year, 2012's 15.3 million wasn't too shabby after 2011's 14.49 million. Those both blow the recession low of just under 11 million new vehicles sold out of the water. It's ...    Read more

Fiscal cliff, schmishcal schmiff. There was a late sense of fear felt in the U.S. economy that capped what has been the best sales year in the auto industry since 2007. As cars and houses are the U.S.'s primary movers and shakers, there was an underlying sense that if credit ...    Read more

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has announced its safest cars for the 2013 model year. In all, the new Top Safety Pick+ was awarded to 13 different cars, with another 117 vehicles earning the title of Top Safety Pick. To earn a Top Safety Pick+ award, vehicles must earn ...    Read more

For d is being sued for misleading consumers regarding fuel economy on two of its hybrid models. The lawsuit claims the 2013 Ford C-MAX hybid, and the popular midsize ...    Read more

Would you believe it, there are analysts who say that cars coming out in 2013 will be more fuel-efficient than even the ones that came out this year? It must've took some sort of amazing prognostication to come to that conclusion. Well, pulled from the depths of Alan L. Baum, principal of ...    Read more

When all the automakers begin passing really stringent crash tests with flying colors, the next logical move is to find even more obscure tests that will inevitably force them to make even safer cars. Arbitrary as it may seem, it's one of the ways the independent Insurance Institute of Highway ...    Read more

The 2013 North American International Auto Show is still a few weeks away, but some automakers just couldn't wait and unveiled what they'd be bringing a little early. This week brought the early, yet official debut of vehicles like the 2014 Mercedes-Benz E-Class, the 2014 Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra, ...    Read more

It's a segment that's been void of substance for quite some time now. At one point, the commercial van segment had the Ford E-Series, Chevrolet Express, GMC Savana, and the Dodge Sprinter  populating it. Today, the Express and Savana live on but haven't seen a refresh in nearly a decade, ...    Read more

Of the many great things to say about the new Ford Fusion, this boast from Ford is the oddest: The 2013 Fusion, the automaker says, is now 13-percent cheaper to repair than the previous model. Of course, the Blue Oval brand isn't saying Fusion is 13-percent more dependable, or 13-percent less ...    Read more

Ward's Auto announced its list of the 10 Best Engines for 2013, and while many of the usual suspects for the annual who's-who of powerplants were included, there were a few new ones as well. Engines from cars and light-duty trucks were evaluated for this list and for the first ...    Read more

July 30, 2013. Remember that date if we're all still here after the Mayan Apocalypse. That's when the man who reinvented the world, Henry Ford, will be celebrating his 150th birthday. Whether you remember his legacy as the world's greatest inventor, or just a senile old hack who got lucky--or ...    Read more

Ford has had a past few weeks that we wouldn't wish upon anyone, suffering two recalls in the same week for some of the same vehicles. Among the biggest concern was that 2013 Ford Escape and Fusion ...    Read more

Following a damning report from Consumer Reports last week--among many other publications who claim to not be able to achieve 47 mpg in a new Ford hybrid vehicle--the Environmental Protection Agency is filing an official investigation as to whether ...    Read more