The 2016 Ford F-150, which will be available with a clean natural… Though Halloween may be over, the fine autumn weather will still facilitate… The 2016 Kia Soul was recently crowned the Best Urban Vehicle at… Ford offers its pickup trucks in all kinds of colors, but according… If Americans were to recount a list…
The 2015 Ford F-150, which made its long-awaited debut this morning at the 2014 North American International Auto Show (NAIAS), is already being hailed as the smartest F-150 ever built due to a number of features never previously offered in a pickup. It is also being touted as one of the most versatile, powerful, and…
2015 Ford F-150 fuel economy figures have been released And now, ladies and gentlemen, the moment you’ve all been waiting for: the revelation of 2015 Ford F-150 fuel economy figures. As could be expected, the newer and lighter F-150 has the highest EPA-estimated fuel economy of any full-size, gas-powered pickup on the market, with the…
2015 F-150 aerodynamics stack up favorably to its predecessors Ford is really looking to drive home the point that the new 2015 F-150 is the one that pickup enthusiasts want, and they’ve employed a whole lot of superlatives in order to do so. We’re not that far off, perhaps, from a press release that declares…
2015 Ford F-150 Ford kicked off 2015 with a monster January, with the Blue Oval brand posting a massive 15.5% year-over-year increase with 171,732 deliveries. The biggest reasons for Ford’s success? Yep, you guessed it: the 2015 Ford F-150 and Mustang. “Customer demand is strong for our newest vehicles, driving retail sales gains across our…
Ford and Thor Livin Lite will create a line of recreational products for the all-new 2015 F-150 Ford and Thor Livin Lite are teaming up to create a new line of Blue Oval-branded recreational products, including an aluminum camper that will pair perfectly with the all-new, aluminum-heavy 2015 Ford F-150. Though the fruits of their…
How do you know Michael Strahan is a big deal? Here he is with Jubstin Beavers, Urrsher, Jubstin Beavers’ stupid hat, and Jubstin Beavers’ ridiculous dirt stache Photo Source: @MichaelStrahan/Twitter How do you know that yesterday’s launch of 2015 F-150 production in Dearborn was a big deal? Why, because former New York Giants defensive end…
Bill Ford and the Dearborn Truck Plant crew celebrate the first F-150 Vehicle launches are crucial to an automaker’s success, and Ford is looking to be in step from day one when it comes to the 2015 F-150. Arguably one of the automaker’s most important launches of the century, production of the new pickup truck…
For a good little while now, Ford has been staving off rumors that it will be killing off the bulk of its car lineup. Anonymous source after anonymous source has claimed that the Fiesta, Fusion, C-MAX, and Taurus are all destined for the chopping block, and Ford has almost invariably countered by saying that these…
There’s perhaps no vehicle more associated with high-octane performance and speed than the Ford Mustang, which might make it all the more confusing when you turn on a NASCAR race and don’t see the original pony car prowling the track. Well, come February 2019, that’s set to change. Ford took the opportunity of National Mustang…
Hot on the heels of the 2019 Ford Ranger being introduced in North America, Ford revealed the performance-minded and -bodied Ford Ranger Raptor in Thailand earlier this month. The Ranger Raptor is, ostensibly, a shrunk-down version of the popular F-150 Raptor, but given that full-size pickup’s awe-inspiring off-road abilities, any similarities between the two should not…
New 2021 Ford F-150 arrived at dealerships in December Photo: Ford Not even a global pandemic could break the incomparable streak of the Ford F-Series. Ford sold a total of 787,422 F-Series trucks in 2020, making it the bestselling truck in America for the 44th year in a row. December capped off another year of…
We’ve all been there: Driving around a three- or four-block radius in seemingly interminable loops looking for that one unoccupied parking space to call home for the next hour or so while you enjoy the dinner date for which you are already running 10 minutes late. You drive past five or six vehicles that seem…
2022 was already shaping up to be the year of the Ford… If the early response to the 2022 Ford F-150 Lightning is any… One of the major keys to gaining the advantage in the ongoing… Hans Schep, Ford Motor Company’s general manager of commercial vehicles in Europe,… Ford Motor Company last week increased its…
If you want an auto headline worthy of that meme with the blurry picture of Pikachu’s shocked face, here ya go: Ford, it appears, is going forward with bringing the next-gen Ranger Raptor to the United States. Ford debuted the Ranger Raptor in Bangkok last year and promptly confirmed it for Asia Pacific markets as…
It’s been a good 15 months since Ford warned us that the… Rattlers, get rattlin’. Ford is adding a new model to the F-150… A Ford F-150 Raptor prototype was spotted testing around Dearborn at the… If you’ve been thinking about hooking yourself up with a Ford F-150… Audiences are packing movie theaters this weekend…
It’s been a scant five years since Ford revealed the Ranger Raptor… Ford this week revealed the all-new Ranger Raptor for the European market,… Here we sit on the cusp of the most gluttonous of holidays,… Ford is oh-so-close to revealing the next-generation Ranger pickup. So close you… Ford has absolutely zero time and zero…
Ford Fiesta ST The new year may be young, but Ford seems to have already won a whole butt-ton of awards. Adding to that metric butt-ton are a pair of major honors for two of the automaker’s finest vehicles, one a piece from either side of the Atlantic. UK-based publication What Car? Named the Ford…
We could very well see a next-gen Ford GT at Detroit in January Well, here’s something that we can get behind: it seems that there may be some credence to reports from earlier this year regarding a revival of the Ford GT, and we may be getting it far sooner than 2017. In fact, if…
This year has been pretty fun for me, car-wise. I bought new… October 21st, as you probably well know, is Back to the Future… If you aren’t familiar with Kate McKinnon now, you better start brushing… Ford’s 1.0-liter EcoBoost engine has earned widespread acclaim and a number of… Ford Sollers, a joint venture in Russia,…
2015 Ford F-150 Among the questions raised in the wake of Ford announcing that the next-gen F-150 would use aluminum-alloy in its body panels: how will this change affect resale value? According to ALG, residual value is one less worry in the watches of the night in the case of the 2015 F-150. ALG estimates…
Photo: Ford Motor Company Thirty athletes representing the South African National Team in the 2019 Special Olympics Summer World Games will be able to achieve their dreams with the help of Ford Motor Company of Southern Africa. Ford is extending a very nice gesture by providing US$69,000 (or 1 million South African Rand) to cover…
2015 Ford F-150 Ford came up big in J.D. Power’s 2015 US Automotive Performance, Execution, and Layout (APEAL) Study, taking home three awards in three separate segments. The C-MAX topped the Compact Multi-Purpose Vehicle segment, beating out the Kia Soul. The Ford F-150 was the champion of the Large Light-Duty Pickup class, topping the offerings…
There’s an awful lot to love about the 2019 Ford F-150 Raptor. I mean, after all, it’s a Ford F-150 Raptor. You know what it does, and you know that it’s gonna do it well. If you didn’t pull the trigger on the F-150 Raptor before and are considering getting one of the new 2019…
2021 Ford F-150 Photo: Ford The Ford F-Series has been the best-selling pickup truck in the U.S. since 1977, and the best-selling vehicle since 1981. The F-Series moniker includes several truck models, but the F-150 is easily the best-known of them all. Initially introduced in 1948, the Ford F-150 has been helping American workers get…
There are many celebrities who endorse automobiles, but not many of them seemingly have the genuine passion for the brand they represent more than Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson does for the 2016 Ford F-150 pickup truck. Standing 6-feet 5-inches tall and owning some of the biggest muscles on planet Earth, Johnson has joked on his…
Porter Cable Ultimate Tradesman Giveaway Given that the first F-150 has already been delivered to a customer in San Antonio, your chances of being the first guy on the block (and, for that matter, any block) to buy and take delivery of the latest Ford pickup has gone right out the window. Lucky for you,…
There is a very strong possibility that at some point in your life, you got behind the wheel of your vehicle and imagined yourself instead at the wheel of a fighter jet roaring through the skies. Maybe, just maybe, you even made a few noises with your mouth. Or maybe not. No judgment either way….
The new 2017 Ford F-150 Raptor gets more than its fair share of praise for everything from its six-mode Terrain Management System to its 450-horsepower EcoBoost engine and 10-speed automatic transmission. But one of the components that most makes it the off-road beast that it is its all-new dual-mode AWD/4WD transfer case, which utilizes that…
Ford is once again bringing a one-off, aero-inspired special edition vehicle to the Experimental Aircraft Association’s AirVenture Oshkosh fly-in, and it has called up world champion drifter Vaughn Gittin Jr. to help bring it to life. Gittin Jr.’s RTR Vehicles teamed with Ford Performance to create the Eagle Squadron Mustang GT, which draws its inspiration…
The Ford F-Series has been America’s best-selling model for the last 34 years The Ford Motor Company continues to rack up awards during the month of November from various media outlets who cover the auto industry. Earlier this month, the 2017 Ford F-150 was named the KBB.com “Best Buy” of the Year for trucks. That…
After two years of waiting, the 2017 Ford F-150 Raptor is finally here. If in your more than 700 days of anticipation you have raised Ford’s new performance truck up to a sort of divine status in your brain, and if you feel that the only way to properly supplicate before that divinity is to…
The Ford Resource and Engagement Center in Craiova, Romania, was inaugurated this week, marking the official opening of the first Ford Research and Engagement Center in Europe. The fourth FREC was announced in June of this year and joins two locations in Ford’s home city of Detroit and a third FREC in South Africa. The…
Happy Haul-o-ween! As we’re sure you’ve noticed, thanks in no small part to the preponderance of tiny Gamoras and Groots wandering around your neighborhood with jack o’ lantern buckets, it’s almost Halloween. As we’re sure you’ve also noticed, thanks in no small part to the preponderance of adults lined up at dealerships in your neck…
Ford EcoSport Ford is said to be adding production of both the Ka minicar and EcoSport small SUV to its Craiova, Romania manufacturing plant, according to a report from Automotive News Europe. A report released Tuesday from the Ziarul Financiar business paper stated that Ford was considering moving production of both models to the plant…
2018 marks the 100th anniversary of Chevrolet’s lineup of trucks. Late last month, the automaker revealed how it planned to celebrate this momentous occasion: the 2018 Chevy Silverado Centennial and Chevy Colorado Centennial. Among the many features equipped to the special edition pickups, perhaps the most notable is the Heritage Bowtie Badge, a throwback to Chevy’s…
The 2017 Ford F-150 Raptor seemingly can’t help itself but win a whole bunch of awards for being great. It’s just in its nature. The latest prize earned by the Blue Oval’s badass off-road truck is the title of “Best Pickup” at the Northwest Outdoor Activity Vehicle of the Year Mudfest. Did you know that…
Could a Ford Edge RS be on the horizon? Plenty of folks were more than a bit gob-smacked when Ford unveiled the all-new Edge ST earlier this year. For as much of a surprise as the high-performance crossover was, that awe was quickly replaced, as it so often is, by speculation as to what Ford…
If you are among the throngs eagerly gobbling up the new 2017 Ford F-150 Raptor performance truck, you now have an additional opportunity to learn how to best harness your new baby’s true powers. Ford announced on Friday that it will offer the all-new Raptor Assault course free of charge for owners of the 2017…
Ford Motor Company reported sales totaling 97,863 vehicles in China last month, down 1% from August 2016. Changan Ford Automobile (CAF) sales made up the vast majority of that total at 69,002 vehicles, which reflects an 8% year-over-year decline. Jiangling Motor Company (JMC) was up 10% with sales totaling 22,035 vehicles, Lincoln was up 105%…
2017 Ford F-150 Raptor Few things in life are certain: death, taxes, and the Ford F-Series winning Kelley Blue Book’s Brand Image Award for trucks. The F-Series this week was named the recipient of KBB’s 2017 Brand Image Award for Best Overall Truck Brand, marking four consecutive years that the Blue Oval has reigned supreme….
Ford Performance Parts are coming to Europe, making products like the next-gen Fiesta ST, Focus St, Focus RS, Mustang, and Ford GT all the more customizable. The initial wave of Ford Performance Parts will consist of around 70 products, all of which are warranty-approved, available for order through certified Ford dealers, deliverable to dealerships or…
Melanie Batenchuk, 2014-2015 WAPA president and founder/editor of BeCarChic.com, and Les Jackson, 2015-2016 Pictured (from left to right): WAPA president and host of Cruise Control Radio, present the award to Jim Holland, vice president, Vehicle Components and Systems. Ford Motor Company and its patriarch, Henry Ford, were both honored with the Golden Gear Award at…
The second-gen Raptor features a high-performance EcoBoost engine and 10-speed automatic gearbox The awards just keep rolling in for the 2017 Ford F-150 Raptor. Having already won the Four Wheeler Pickup Truck of the Year award, as well as Best Pickup Truck of 2017 from Cars.com, the new high-performance Raptor was also named the 2017…
More Americans purchased new vehicles in 2015 than in any other year in the history of the country. In total, more than 17.5 million new automobiles were sold and the three best-selling vehicles were all full-size pick-up trucks. The Ford F-Series led the way with more than 780,000 units moved and was followed by the…
The diversity of GM’s truck lineup has helped it to succeed For more than 40 years, the Ford F-150 has held the title of America’s best-selling pickup truck. Still, customers seeking a midsize truck model from Ford are currently out of luck. That’s where GM’s pickup truck advantage comes into play. GM not only offers…
Interest in the 2015 F-150 helped make Ford most-Googled Car of 2014 Google unleashed its yearly Trends report for 2014, revealing that the top five things that people around the world searched for on the internet were the late Robin Williams, the 2014 World Cup, Ebola, MH370, and Flappy Bird. In terms of searches for…
If you are among those twiddling their thumbs and waiting patiently for a 2017 Ford F-150 equipped with an all-new 3.5-liter EcoBoost V6 and 10-speed automatic transmission—including the long, long, long awaited 2017 Ford F-150 Raptor—then you might want to check under the Festivus pole this year. Related: 2017 F-150 fuel economy increases with new…
You’ve asked (and asked, and asked, and asked), and Ford has delivered. The 2019 Ford Ranger mid-size pickup is reporting for duty, and it looks ready for just about whatever plans you’ve dreamt up for it over more than five years of waiting. The 2019 Ford Ranger will be offered in three trims at the…
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