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 […]
Ford’s Robutt Aims to Terminate Wear and Tear from Sweaty Bums
If Robutt had the ability to speak, it would no doubt say: “I’ll be back.” Because it is. And this time, it’s looking to terminate the effects of swamp butt. Robutt, if you’ll recall, is the incredible and incredibly named tool Ford of Europe first revealed in 2017. The purpose of Robutt at the time […]
Ford is Canada’s Best-Selling Brand for the 10th Straight Year
Ford has now logged its 10th consecutive year as the most popular brand and third straight year as the most popular automaker in Canada thanks to a successful 2018 campaign. Total sales for 2018 were down 3.4 percent at 298,078 vehicles delivered, but the final number was more than enough to establish the Blue Oval […]
Ford Gets Vote of Confidence as UK’s Top Brand for 2018
Ford once again stands as the No. 1 automotive brand in the United Kingdom, with 2018’s result marking 42 consecutive years of passenger car dominance and 53 straight years of commercial vehicle sales leadership. Ford achieved this feat with its best-ever year for commercial vehicle registrations and the 10th straight year of the Ford Fiesta […]
5 Famous Fords in Film
From the sporty Mustang to the distinguished Crown Victoria, Ford vehicles have as much charisma as their human co-stars in the movies. According to the Detroit Free Press, the silver screen has featured more Fords than any other brand’s vehicles. With over 8,988 appearances in movies, it’s no surprise that some of these cars have […]
Ford Says EcoSport Creates EcoSpots Thanks to Shorter Stature
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 […]
Queer Eye’s Karamo Brown Leads 2019 Ford Edge Media Ride-Along
Karamo Brown, one of the new Fab Five on Netflix’s revival of Queer Eye, is a longtime Ford homer. This fact, in addition to the nakedly obvious fact that he is exceedingly fabulous and quite charismatic, led Ford to reach out and appoint him the leader of a media ride-along that introduced the many advantages […]
B’day, Mate: No Ford Bronco for Australia
One rumor that sprang up prior to the official announcement of the Ford Bronco’s return was that it was already undergoing production testing in Australia, which one might presume would mean that the Bronco would have its day in the Outback. According to Ford Australia and New Zealand President and CEO Kay Hart, neither the […]
Ford Europe Hits Record Full-Year SUV Sales with Time to Spare
Ford of Europe’s full-year SUV sales reached 259,200 vehicles across its traditional 20 European markets in November, breaking the previous full-year sales record for SUVs with a month left in the year. To this feat, Ford owes a great deal of credit to its three-headed crossover Cerberus: the EcoSport, Kuga, and Edge. “SUV sales are […]
Ford Releases Looking Further with Ford 2019 Trends Report
Ford has released its seventh Looking Further with Ford Trends Report, which looks ahead to several trends that the automaker believes will shape the landscape in 2019. The Looking Further with Ford 2019 Trends Report features insights with respect to the adoption of autonomous technology, our interactions with technology and devices, and the concept of […]
Spotted: Ford Courier Testing in the Wild
Just a few short months ago, it was reported that Ford is looking to relaunch its Courier small unibody pickup truck by 2022, likely in an effort to further its stranglehold on the pickup truck market. On Thursday, Ford Authority posted spy shots showing what appears to be an early production prototype of the Ford […]
Ford Edge RS? Sure, Maybe, Says Ford Performance’s Ed Krenz
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 Performance could do next. Naturally, one of those questions […]
Ford Unleashes Mustang Bullitt on Isle of Man Mountain Road
The Isle of Man TT Festival is beloved for its Mountain Course, which draws 30 million viewers around the world every year by putting motorcyclists against one another — and against the road itself — in a race to the finish. But Ford had a different idea for the Mountain Road: Putting down four wheels […]
Three Winners Announced in Pittsburgh Ford City of Tomorrow Challenge
Following the announcement that Kaizen Health was declared the winner of Grand Rapids’ Ford City of Tomorrow Challenge and Soofta and PikMyKid were the co-winners in the Miami-Dade Ford City of Tomorrow Challenge, the City of Pittsburgh announced this week that iomob, Safe Shift, and Intersection are the winners of its City of Tomorrow Challenge. The […]