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Byline: Michael Martinez Spy photographers have captured images of the redesigned Expedition large SUV virtually undisguised, revealing a new off-road model and other design details. The images confirm Automotive News [...]

Byline: Michael Martinez Ford Motor Co. is taking the Mustang Mach-E into unusual terrain for an electric vehicle: the mud, dirt and gravel of unpaved trails and rallycross courses. The [...]

Byline: Michael Martinez Ford Motor Co. officials are hoping to expand the 2024 Mustang's appeal to a new generation of buyers even as longtime rivals give up on the pony [...]

Byline: Michael Martinez Ford Motor Co. will keep AM radio in all 2024 Ford and Lincoln models and restore it on two electric vehicles via a software update, according to [...]

Byline: Michael Martinez The 2024 Ranger Raptor shows how Ford Motor Co. is working to maximize profits from its internal combustion business by offering high-margin derivatives that require little additional [...]

Byline: Michael Martinez A year ago, Jannell Ford in Hanover, Mass., promised to charge no more than sticker price for the highly anticipated Bronco SUV. But that was before the [...]

Ford Motor Co. calls its F-100 Eluminator concept 'the future of custom vehicles,' though it borrows a design from the automaker's past. The company unveiled the concept, based on a [...]

Byline: Michael Martinez Bronco fans, rejoice. Ford Motor Co. is set to drop a V-8 engine into a production Bronco, but it's going to cost more than any vehicle except [...]

The switch to battery power is the latest showdown between Detroit's heavyweights IN 1909 THE founder of General Motors (GM), William Crapo Durant, offered to buy Ford for $8m. Henry [...]

Byline: Michael Martinez Ford Motor Co. slashed an eye-opening 20 months off the product development time of the 2022 Maverick compact pickup not because it could -- but because it [...]

Byline: Michael Martinez The long-simmering rivalry between Detroit's two largest automakers has sparked an electric vehicle arms race that's intensifying by the week and converting many Wall Street skeptics into [...]

Byline: Michael Martinez When Ford Motor Co. hosted a presidential visit a year ago this week, Donald Trump flouted company safety protocol by refusing to wear a mask for much [...]

Byline: Michael Martinez One of Ford Motor Co.'s famed high-performance badges reportedly is getting revived for one of its newest electric vehicles. The electric version of Ford's full-size pickup will [...]

THE TEAM BEHIND the 2017 Ford GT has faced one particular question, even internally, since the program began secretly in late 2013, which explains the half smirk on Dave Pericak's [...]

* The new Ford GT was designed in secrecy. Only people crucial to the project even knew there was a project. Meetings were held after normal working hours and were [...]

Byline: Michael Martinez Amid reports of an impending autonomous vehicle partnership with Volkswagen, Ford Motor Co. has begun testing robotic cars in its own backyard. The automaker, through its self-driving [...]

In the mid-1960s, when Ford was attempting to dethrone Ferrari at Le Mans, then-President Henry Ford II had one directive for his drivers: 'Go like hell.' More than a half-century [...]

Byline: Michael Martinez Ford Motor Co. is shifting its approach to autonomous-vehicle technology. In 2016, Ford said it would largely pass over Level 3 autonomy and instead focus on Level [...]

The calendar says it's not quite 2014 yet, but GM and Ford are already duking it out for heavy-duty pickup supremacy in the '15 model year. (Yes, Ram has a [...]

The writing was on the wall a couple of years ago: Ford's tooling for the N351 cylinder head casting was wearing out, and if something wasn't done, that casting stood [...]

0:2 FORD'S had a tough few years and faces more of them in an increasingly competitive automotive landscape. But the Mustang is one of the company's bright spots. The current-gen […]

PRESS THE electrically triggered chrome door handle and the door pops open. The sculpted one-piece leather seats are as stiff as the suspension, and you slide onto them as into […]

1966. There was a Texan in the White House, a guy named Andretti earned Rookie of the Year honors at last year's Indy 500, and a former oilfield roughneck and […]

WITH ALL DUE RESPECT to the Mustangs developed and sold by Ford Special Vehicle Engineering and the Special Vehicle Team between 1993 and 2004, Cobras are two-seat roadsters built by […]

Electric vehicles couldn't quite cut it. Hybrid-electric vehicles are already on the road. Automakers are now concentrating on the next eco-friendly trend: hydrogen-powered vehicles. Ford Motor Co. projects hydrogen fuel-cell [...]

DESPITE THE APPEAL OF FORD MOTOR Co.'s RE-designed Mustang, despite DaimlerChrysler AG's remarkable urban market inroads with the Chrysler 300C and Dodge Magnum, despite the continued standout styling of Nissan […]

Ford's headquarters, known as M-sport in Lake District with an area of 5575 square feet will be used for designing, building, and servicing Focus rally cars. The team will complete its build process of the two cars that will start round one for the 2005 World Rally Championship, the Monte Carlo Rally, on January 21, 2005.

As head of product development for Ford, he was supervising the creation of what could be one of the most important vehicles in company history. While the car wasn't due […]

Focus RS manufactured by Ford offers a spectacular 280bhp, four-wheel drive which aims to align its specification and road behavior more closely with the World Rally Championship Focus, to better capitalize on the publicity it gains. Further, the Team RS is finding a way to build the car at the company's Saarlouis plant with minimum disruption to mainstream Focus production, and with limited costly reworking of the car.

The top-secret internal document at Ford is discussed. The confidential details about the next Mondeo, Focus, Galaxy, Land Rover Freelander and three new Volvos are presented. This secret document breaks the ice on the Mondeo project and reveals that it will be part of a new family of big Fords that includes the next Galaxy and other spin-offs.

The capabilities of the Ford GT concept car are discussed.

FOR THREE DECADES NOW, the second commandment of every automotive engineer--right behind 'reduce cost'--has been 'reduce fuel consumption.' The device to use less fossil fuel has dictated the design of […]

If there has ever been a product that's achieved the distinction of being greater than the sum of its parts, it's a Class A motorhome. And more to the point, [...]

Ford is developing the StreetKa convertible. The car will cost around 12,495 pounds sterling when it launches in May 2003.

Ford has redesigned the Mustang, which will go on sale in 2004. The new coupe has styling elements from past models.

This article covers the location and conditions where and which Ford engineers are placed to test drive the models. Ford engineers are taken to the snowy banks of Oslo, where they drive the cars over snowy grounds which is meant to improve the engineers' intuition so that they can analyze the models more closely.

The keys to the future of personal mobility, Ford believes, can be found in its Model U concept SUV. Brimming with safety and electronic technologies, the vehicle also makes an [...]