2015 Ford Focus Overview
What’s New for the 2015 Ford Focus? The 2015 Ford Focus gets a few styling tweaks on the exterior and interior as well as a new SE Sport Package. 2015 Ford Focus Exterior The 2015 Ford Focus resembles a smaller Ford Fusion more than ever before, especially with the new Aston Martin-style grille. And that’s […]
2015 Ford Focus ST Revealed at Goodwood FoS
The 2015 Ford Focus ST made its world debut at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, and though most of the new wrinkles are minor or cosmetic, they nonetheless serve the purpose of taking a great thing and making it even greater. The most important upgrades were those made to the ST’s suspension. Ford Team RS […]
2015 Ford Focus Sedan Revealed Before NYIAS
In 2013, the best-selling nameplate in the world was the Ford Focus, thanks to its incredible sales success in markets such as China and the United States. Ford is looking to keep that roll going as long as possible, and the unveiling of the all-new 2015 Ford Focus sedan should be a significant moment in […]
2015 Ford Focus Engine Offering Shakes Things Up
Yesterday, Ford announced that the 2015 Ford Focus engine offerings would be getting a burst of efficiency. Now offering a 1.0-liter EcoBoost® engine for the Focus, Ford expects the world’s best-selling nameplate to remain on top.
Ford Boosts 2015 Focus ST to 275 Horsepower with mountune Performance Kit
The 2015 Ford Focus ST, introduced just last year at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, is already an impressive beast with 252-horsepower capabilities. Ford Performance today announced an upgrade kit for the ST that, among other things, takes that already impressive output and ratchets it up another level. With the mountune MP275 Focus ST performance […]
Ford Demonstrates Enhanced Transitional Stability Technology in 2015 Focus
One of the unheralded new features of the 2015 Ford Focus is a new technology that is capable of predicting when your vehicle is in imminent danger of spinning out and help prevent it from happening. Ford’s enhanced transitional stability technology is intended specifically to help the 2015 Focus during dynamic driving situations. Additionally, it […]
Ford Chops $6K Off 2014 and 2015 Focus Electric
Ford would probably be among the first to admit that it is nowhere near the first name in electric vehicles. That, however, seems to be a stigma that the automaker would very much like to change. The latest indication to this end: Ford has dropped the price of both the 2014 and 2015 Focus Electric […]
Ford Says Farewell to the Fusion as Production Ends
We all knew this day would come, but it doesn’t make it any easier. The Ford Fusion is dead. May angels sing it to its rest. Ford Motor Company confirmed this week to Ford Authority that the last of the Ford Fusions was built on July 31. Ford had originally intended to continue production of […]
‘Ford v Ferrari’ Gets Academy Award Nomination for Best Picture
Ford v Ferrari, a James Mangold film starring Christian Bale and Matt Damon, has received an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture, as well as three others for Film Editing, Sound Editing, and Sound Mixing. This could be the first time a car-centric film receives the Oscar for Best Picture, a category in which these […]
Ford Gets Perfect Score in 2019 Disability Equality Index
Ford Motor Company was one of just two automakers to earn a perfect 100 out of 100 in the 2019 Disability Equality Index. The 2019 DEI marks the first time that Ford has earned the perfect score in the list from Disability:IN, which is the leading global resource for disability inclusion. According to Ford, it […]
Film Review: ‘Ford v Ferrari’
I walked into my local theater’s showing of Ford v Ferrari with modest expectations. On the one hand, it was directed by the same man behind the excellent Logan, featured not one but two Academy Award-winning actors in Christian Bale and Matt Damon, and had a not-insignificant budget of just under $100 million. All of […]
The Ford Flex is Dead Just in Time for Halloween
Halloween is the one night every year where the veil between the world of the living and the world of the dead is at its thinnest. This Halloween, the Ford Flex will exist on the spirit realm side of things —assuming, I guess, that crossovers have souls. Ford announced on Monday that the Flex is […]
Ford of Europe Gains 3.1 Percent in Q3 Sales
Ford Motor Company of Europe saw its sales increase 3.1 percent in Q3 2019, delivering a total of 313,400 vehicles across its traditional 20 European markets. The bulk of that boost came from a 5.6 percent uptick in passenger vehicle sales, which totaled 221,600 units. Despite a 2.6 percent downturn in commercial vehicle sales from […]
Rumor: Ford to Announce Israel Research and Innovation Center in June
Ford Motor Company Executive Chairman Bill Ford will be visiting Israel in June, and sources say that he will announce a new Research and Innovation Center in Tel Aviv. Ford will take part in the four-day EcoMotion conference in June, which gathers together Israeli tech companies and startups alongside reps from the auto industry. Ford […]
Ford Launches City:One Challenge Mexico City
Ford is expanding its City:One Challenge outside of the United States with the newly announced City:One Challenge Mexico City, which challenges individuals and groups with the task of making their city safer and more accessible. City:One Challenge Mexico City invites established businesses and startups, groups and individuals, to consider the mobility challenges facing Mexico City […]
Mitsubishi to Focus on SUVs and Crossovers for Its Lineup
The Mitsubishi brand, once known for its small, sporty cars, is instead shifting focus towards larger utility vehicles
Even just a few years ago, Mitsubishi’s vehicle lineup was populated by small, sporty cars like the Lancer, Evo, and Eclipse. Now, its model lineup is mostly comprised of SUVs and Crossovers, with the Mitsubishi Mirage serving as the exception. There’s two major reasons for this model lineup shift. First of all, the SUV segment […]
2019 Ford Focus ST Laughs at America With 276 Horsepower
Ever have one of those moments where you’re in some public setting and you see someone you used to date or kick it with or whatever and you see that they’re just so happy and looking really nice and you feel happy for them but at the same time just a little bit bitter or […]
Patent Suggests Ford Mustang Hybrid Could Get a V8
We know that the Ford Mustang Hybrid is coming, but we don’t know very much about it — apart from what it might wind up looking like, compliments of the “Future is Built” commercial (skip to the 34 second mark). Per a new patent published this month, we now may have some insight into its […]