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This is the latest salvo fired in the war for domination of diesel-powered full size pickups in North America. It's the new 6.0 L Ford Power Stroke Diesel produced for [...]

Four years ago ford decided to bake a new car. Certainly not Wonderbread. Rather a buttery, old-world croissant. Or perhaps a crunchy, perfectly mellow sourdough. Good and rich enough to [...]

Ford's new truck engine goes gunning for Rams, with more efficiency and far less weight. The latest addition to Ford's successful modular engine family is a 6.8L V10, aimed at [...]

It's not yet time for the Partnership for a New Generation of Vehicles (PNGV) to bear fruit, but Ford is offering a taste of what to expect with Synergy 2010. [...]

Forget what you've heard, the aluminum-intensive vehicle isn't quite ready for volume production. Read the newspaper. Read the press releases. Heck, read the National Research Council's (NRC) fuel economy report. [...]

THE CASE FOR CONTOUR Beneath the skin of Ford's latest concept vehicle could lay the future of automaking. Is Ford bold enough to do it? While half a million people [...]

Traditionally, ultra-low volume vehicles costing hundreds of thousands of dollars are the preserve of Italian of German exotic sports car manufacturers. But a series of 30 cars being completed in [...]

Any veteran of head/block prototyping knows it takes six months to one year to get a good prototype part. In fact, the slow process of producing tooling for castings has [...]

GT90 is more than a technical showcase for the auto show circuit, or potential production vehicle. it is, according to the man who brought it to life, an example of [...]

Active suspension, though now 14 years old, is entering what could be the most important phase of its existence. What happens in the next few years could determine whether or [...]

The real story behind Ford's outstanding new luxury/sport coupe. Ford designers began work on the Mark VIII (FN-10) program in August 1987. Six months later, the first full-size clays were [...]

Chrysler owns the market, but Ford and Nissan will take their pound of flesh with the sport sedan of minivans. Each story has a beginning, a middle and an end. [...]

CONTOUR CONTINUES Ford's radical aluminum spaceframe/T-drive powertrain program may enter production in the late '90s. Could it be the 1998 Taurus/Sable? Within six years, Ford Motor Company may be selling [...]

New suppliers, new manufacturing technologies and new challenges are all part of Ford's new Thunderbird. Although the 2002 Thunderbird is a small volume, niche program, the story of its development [...]

Does anybody remember the 2002 Explorer and Mountaineer? Ford unveiled the extensively revised versions of its best-selling SUVs during a two-day media and Internet event last month. But news of [...]

Creating the Ford Escape and Mazda Tribute SUVs was a global accomplishment. The chief engineers tell how it happened. Yoshihito Nagamoto must have gained a profound understanding of that old [...]

Ford's performance-oriented Special Vehicle Team (SVT) will add more new products to the SVT lineup, according to SVT chief engineer John Coletti. 'We are constantly having reviews between marketing and [...]

The transmission world is gearing for quantum changes over the next two decades. Excuse the pun, but the shifts emerging in this once staid segment of the powertrain industry are [...]

I'm writing this column from the home of Bill Gates. I'm not literally at the home of the world's richest man, of course, but I am in the Pacific Northwest, [...]

The sports car that enthusiasts prayed would appear at the Tokyo Motor Show, didn't show up. Instead of unveiling a low-cost successor to the RX-7, Mazda showed a rotary-powered sedan [...]

The stainless steel fuel lines that feed a certain dyno cell at Ford's Dearborn, Mich., scientific labs are the giveaway that the engine running here is special. At first glance, [...]

Creating and building Ford's giant new Excursion SUV. When Ford decided to combat General Motors' Suburban, it considered the most obvious and presumably simple approach: stretch the successful F-150-based Expedition [...]

With the gas-sucking, 19-foot-long Excursion SIN on the way, Ford's chairman is trying to deflect criticism by stumping for what he believes are the 'good news' environmental initiatives his company [...]

Extensive use of customized software helps engineers create vehicles that `drive like a Ford' -- and even better. Jump into a new car or truck and you should know within [...]

Lightweight body construction and innovative drivetrains will be key brand-builders for the new breed of 'crossover' sport-utility vehicles now in development at Ford and GM. Both automakers will launch their [...]

Ford's announcement that its 2000 F-Series pickups will meet the 2004 low-emissions standards sent the industry scampering for cover, and it's not because the other automakers can't catch up. They [...]

Chrysler still leads the race to a single, global CAD/CAE/CAM platform, but Ford and GM are closing fast. And suppliers are struggling to catch up. Each day saved in a [...]

Ford's cash cow adds another portal, and gains lost of now end torque. Depending on how you view it, Ford Motor Co. is either one step behind in the emerging [...]

What a difference a year makes. Just last year. Ford touted its bizarre. Synergy 2010, (a PNGV study vehicle) as a possible glimpse into what a high-mileage, lightweight, six-passenger car-of-the-future [...]

In their bid to tap into the world's love affair with the digital domain plus catapult themselves ahead m a competitive, tightly contested luxury car market, two of the U.S. [...]

It's light, powerful and more compact than the ohv 5.0 L it's replacing! The last time Automotive Industries wrote about a new dohc Ford V8 was in March, 1964: The [...]

Ford executives had a decision to make: Allow the Mustang to continue unchanged until its market share dropped to unprofitable levels and kill it, or launch a renewed attack on [...]

The classic knock on the Mustang had been that you could go plenty fast in a straight line but if you planned anything past that, you might be in trouble. [...]

Michael F. Dorney, vice president of sales and marketing for the Budd Co. will be the first to tell you the benefits of sheet molded compound (SMC). It's his company [...]

American Axle and Manufacturing Holdings Inc., Ford Motor Co. and other automotive supply companies developed a prototype hybrid bus for airport shuffle and mass transit use. American Axle's participation on [...]

Ford will no longer use New Edge design -- at least in all its vehicles. It will only show up in Mercury styling, says J Mays, vice president, design. In [...]

Morton International, along with Ford, develops a side-impact airbag for selected Ford models. Morton has developed a bag-in-a-bag technology, providing both head and torso protection using a single, fluid-fueled inflator [...]

In 1993, Ford built the first 20 of 40 Aluminum Intensive Vehicles (AIVs) to discover what was necessary to build aluminum structured vehicles in volume. Subassemblies were built and tested, [...]

If Ford Motor Co. and Engelhard Corp. have their way there'll be a sequel to the `60s sci-fi flick Godzilla Versus the Smog Monster. This time, however, there's an auto [...]

Chrysler has owned the minivan market since the mid 1980s when it introduced the Dodge Caravan and Plymouth Voyager. Sure, it's had competition like the Ford Aerostar, the Chevrolet Astro, [...]

The Wall Street Journal recently published a front page story on how much it took Ford to bring its new compact cars to market in both Europe and the United [...]

Ford's Modular Savings Ford's new modular engine family will substantially reduce the company's engine development costs, development time, and tooling changeover costs. Perhaps more importantly, the new powerplants, which use [...]

One recent morning, in the midst of an interview for the Financial News Network, the cameraman taping the segment spied a glossy photograph of a new car on my desk. [...]

Fords Of The Future Even as critics question the magnitude of General Motor's recent capital investments and the potential impact of its future car lines, some pundits are posing similar [...]

Tokyo Aftershock GM's depressing display at Tokyo begs the question: Does Detroit understand it's standing on the brink of a precipice? Last month I wrote that the American automotive industry [...]