Ford News

When Ford replaces its full-size E-Series vans with the all-new Transit commercial van to the United States next year, it will come equipped with the same EcoBoost V-6 engine that has proven so popular in the Ford F-150. Like the F-150, the Transit van will use the 3.5-liter EcoBoost V-6 ...    Read more

This week, Ford is upgrading SYNC and MyFord Touch on the cars of hundreds of thousands of owners. And the upgrade kit it is mailing out comes in the form of 3 pamphlets, a USB thumb drive, a user guide, an SD card for navigation-equipped cars, an introductory letter for ...    Read more

Driving in Los Angeles, it becomes painfully obvious that people shouldn't have ever had cell phones to their ears while operating a vehicle. You go. You stop. You get up to 60 mph. You brake hard back down to a 10 mph crawl. And you do this all while navigating ...    Read more

Give credit where credit is due. Dodge is attempting to bring back the philosophy of "Race on Sunday, sell on Monday" to NASCAR with the introduction of the 2013 NASCAR Charger. Ford has also recently jumped in backing this philosophy with its introduction of the all-new Fusion stock ...    Read more

Next week, automobile manufacturers, executives, and journalists from around the world will gather in the snowy confines of Geneva, Switzerland. There, they will ignore the lake, the scenery, and pretty much everything else that makes this historic city, well, historic, and instead gather into a convention center (which looks like ...    Read more

For electric cars, fathoming their EPA mileage ratings is like reading the liability form of an Eastern European game show—there are so many stipulations, caveats, and wanton asterisks that EV owners tend to shrug their shoulders and spout off a triple-digit estimate. How many miles per gallon does it get? ...    Read more

The Department of Transportation has again delayed issuing a rule that would mandate a backup camera on all new cars and trucks by the 2014 model year. Saying that it needs "further study and data analysis—including of a wider range of vehicles and drivers," the agency has pushed back its ...    Read more

Guaranteed to be more fun than, say, watching Forbes editors pick stock portfolios: Watching Motor Trend pick the top driver's car of 2011 will certainly involve lots of expensive metal, loud engines, a real-life racing driver, and the occasional—ok, plenty of—powerslides. And there's a lot to pick from! There's the Lexus ...    Read more

Bill Ford Jr., the great grandson of Henry Ford, has had some time to think about things since he gave up his position as CEO in 2006. The extra time has permitted Ford to siphon through the chaos of our world to make some sage observations from the top. According ...    Read more

When should you replace your car seat? That's a tricky question. Car seats are designed to protect a child in an accident But like helmets, they're not designed to protect against multiple accidents. The foam in bicycle and motorcycle helmets can deteriorate after a major impact, and it won't protect ...    Read more

In two days, viewers of the Daytona 500 will be treated to a new ad for the 2013 Ford Mustang. But hip young Web 2.0 Millennial kids don't have to wait that long. They'll have already taken to Facebook, YouTube, and tumbleweed-laden Google Plus to watch the new Mustang ad, ...    Read more

There are milestones you don't forget too quickly. When it comes to driving, I still remember opening my wallet, with gas prices $4.19 at the time, to pump each gallon into my car back in Pittsburgh, Penn. That was July 2008, and it happened right as housing bubbles burst, stock ...    Read more

Automotive safety system manufacturer Autoliv has come under scrutiny from the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration for faulty side airbag parts. Toyota, Honda, Nissan, and Subaru all employee airbags parts sourced from Autoliv, and all four automakers recently issued recalls pertaining to problems with the side airbag. In total, 2,750 ...    Read more

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration uses specially designed dummies to simulate crash testing with children and adults of all different ages, heights, and weights. But one it didn't adopt into its family of child dummies until now is its 10-year-old weighing more than 65 pounds. Largely due to the rise ...    Read more

Car shoppers have never had it so well. If you're shopping for a new car, take a second and ask your parents or grandfather what it's like to have a Dodge Aspen rust on its way back from the showroom, or a Hyundai Excel that did anything but fulfill its ...    Read more

If you've ever taken an economics course, chances are you've seen the chart with an upward sloping line signified as the supply curve and a downward sloping line as the demand curve. They usually meet somewhere in the middle. That's the point where customers fork over their cash for a ...    Read more

Trivia: Your average rental car agency has between 100 and 150 cars in its fleet at any time. Airport-based agencies have many, many times more. Yet, when you get to the lot, you're usually stuck picking between some lowly optioned economy car or something that could have come straight out of ...    Read more

Motor Trend's Ed Sanchez takes on the growing trend by automakers to utilize four-cylinders across the model lineup of their respective brands. Two main reasons are driving the paradigm shift. The first is car buyers' acceptance of four cylinder engines. Sanchez interviewed various automaker representatives who all agree that the ...    Read more

In 2010, Ford came within 9 points of tying with Honda in the industry-standard JD Power and Associates Vehicle Dependability Study. Both companies enjoyed a healthy 10 point lead above the industry average, at least. A year later, Ford was only one point behind its Japanese rival, and finally in ...    Read more

The U.S. Department of Transportation, in conjunction with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, has issued a set of optional guidelines to help steer automakers to make cars safer. Proposed by U.S. DOT Secretary Ray LaHood, the optional guidelines would help automakers create a streamlined process for nonessential electronics to ...    Read more

Love that new car smell? A recent study by HealthyStuff.org shows it may not be as good for you as it actually smells. Test data was collected after evaluating 204 new 2011-2012 model vehicles as part of a multi-year data base that has already complied over 900 vehicles. Vehicles were ...    Read more

There's a reason Toyota isn't as familiar with the term "fleet special" as other auto makers, like Ford and Dodge are. Fleet sales are seen as less profitable when compared to retail sales to individuals, and they can also hurt the vehicle's resale value and the brand's overall image. In ...    Read more

All three Toyota brands—Toyota, Lexus, and Scion—dominated research firm J.D. Power and Associates dependability study for 2009 model year vehicles. Toyota's luxury brand Lexus sat on top of J.D. Power and Associates' U.S. Vehicle Dependability Study (VDS) for 2012 with 86 problems per 100 vehicles, or PP100. Adding an additional feather ...    Read more

When walking up to your vehicle with a handful of groceries there's nothing more annoying then setting everything down to dig your keys out of your pocket. Many auto makers have finally realized this and have taken the necessary steps forward to make unloading goods as simple as kicking a ...    Read more

Wanting to know exactly how the latest engine tech is saving you on gas? Or what the future holds for automotive safety? Attendees at this year's Chicago Auto Show are getting a rare glimpse into the underpinnings of today's vehicles courtesy of Continental AG, one of the world's largest automotive ...    Read more