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22 May 2007 posted in Euro 1 views
Ford Mondeo deemed allergy free For anybody that suffers with environmental allergies, spring and summer can be brutal. Dust mites and pollen can wreak havoc on sinus cavities, ears, and eyes whether inside or outside your car. Many ...
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11 May 2007 posted in Aftermarket 9 views
Hell hath frozen over: ROUSH begins selling high-performance parts for GM vehicles We heard rumblings from the underground that ROUSH was considering expanding its line of high-performance parts to vehicles not wearing the Blue Oval badge, and today the company that Jack built made ...
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7 January 2007 posted in Green 3 views
Detroit Auto Show: Ford officially debuts TwinForce TT-V6 Touted as a means to give V8-like horsepower with V6 fuel economy, the TwinForce V6 at this year's Detroit Auto Show stands as one of Ford's biggest announcements so far. Started with the Duratec 35 a ...
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21 December 2006 posted in Videos 1 views
Ford Bold Moves - Episode 27: None of you probably noticed the we skipped reporting on the release of Ford Bold Moves - Episodes 26. Yeah, we watched it, but its subject matter didn't even register on our Interesting Meter, so we ...
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20 December 2006 posted in Tech 6 views
Ford and Microsoft teaming up to offer Blue&Me in-car computing in 2007 Thanks to sister site Engadget, we've learned about a new collaboration between Ford and Microsoft that will put a personal computer in your car. Expected to debut as early as next year on some Ford v ...
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18 December 2006 posted in Crossovers/CUVs 3 views
S40, V50 diesels will get DSG tranny Any doubt that Volvo, and its parent company Ford, intends to bring a dual-clutch transmission to market has been dispelled. Various sources have confirmed that Volvo plans to offer a DSG in the diese ...
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18 November 2006 posted in Marketing/Advertising 6 views
Ford fills leftover models with wads of cash On Friday, we told you about GM discounting its remainders with a maximum of $2,000 off on select vehicles. Now Ford wants in on the action and is offering as much as $3,000 on several slow-selling ve ...
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8 September 2006 posted in Etc. 7 views
Ford Bold Moves: the video game If you're a video game freak and a Mustang fan, chances are you're going to pick up Ford Bold Moves: Street Racing for the PS2, XBox 360 or PC no matter what kind of reviews it gets. Manufacturer spec ...
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5 September 2006 posted in Trends 3 views
Seven models for 2007 that could change everything It's crunch time in the auto industry, there's no doubt about that. The Detroit Free Press' Mark Phelan paints the picture in the simplest -- yet starkest -- terms possible when he lays out the seven ...
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15 August 2006 posted in Safety 5 views
Ford focuses on safety in 2007 As promised, Ford is taking a page from Volvo's book and emphasizing safety for the 2007 model year for its Ford, Mercury and Lincoln brands. Side curtain airbags and rollover sensors -- factors that ...
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13 August 2006 posted in Marketing/Advertising 8 views
Ford Bold Moves hits the virtual realm with video game Ford's Bold Moves campaign just got a little bolder with the introduction of Ford Bold Moves Street Racing, a video game developed in cooperation with Eidos Interactive. Scheduled to hit a North Ameri ...
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17 March 2006 posted in Trends 5 views
Non-Ford vehicles taking a beating; UAW tells members to stop According to the Detroit News, a local UAW official sent out a note to members of the Kansas City Assembly plant about vandalism against non-Ford vehicles. "Respect other people's property as you ...
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17 February 2006 posted in Trends 7 views
Ford factories enforcing No-Parking Zone for non-Ford vehicles Ford and the UAW have finally come together and agreed on something–they don’t want non-Ford vehicles bogarting all the good parking spots in the factory lots. Effective February 1st, the ...
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8 January 2006 posted in Minivans/MPVs 7 views
Ford gains an Edge Here we have the first official photos of Ford’s new CUV, the Edge. The market for CUVs is growing faster than the SUV market did back in the Nineties, and Ford is positioning the Edge to grab a ...
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13 December 2005 posted in Trends 7 views
Ford has met the customer. So who won? The Ford designers recently met with reporters at the automaker's Product Development Center. There they discussed what they felt were Ford's design directions for the future. Ford's press release fol ...
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5 October 2005 posted in Car Buying 13 views
Ford offers cash rebates instead of employee pricing What was it that Juliet said? "A rose by any other name would smell as sweet?" How about "a discount by any other name would still make the car cost the same?" Cheap loans and big rebat ...
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8 September 2005 posted in Trends 7 views
Why oh why must manufacturers stretch out recalls? Another week, another half-assed recall. You'll have to pardon me, folks, but the announcement of a recall of 3.8 million Ford vehicles for cruise-control switch failures has just about sent me over t ...
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18 July 2005 posted in SUVs 5 views
Ford cruise-control switch suspected in another fatal fire When a fire ripped through a home in January 2004 and killed a 4-year-old girl, no one at the time suspected that the 2001 F-150 Super Crew parked inside the attached garage was at fault, and the case ...
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7 June 2005 posted in Audio 5 views
Ford extends Sirius alliance Ford has decided to stay in bed with Sirius for three more years than originally planned. The deal between Ford and Sirius, the satelitte radio company, was supposed to end in 2008, but it has been ex ...
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6 December 2004 posted in Trends 9 views
Bill Ford winning all arguments The fine folks at Newsweek feature Bill Ford in their latest issue. The piece lacks some focus as it describes Ford trying to bring his namesake company back to the forefront of green technology that ...
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