BARCELONA, Spain, March 2, 2015 – Ford Motor Company is expanding its global Ford Smart Mobility plan with a new experiment to study how electric bicycles can work seamlessly with cars and public transport to deliver faster and easier daily commutes and help businesses operating in urban centres. The experiment called Handle on Mobility was detailed(…)
Chicago voters have spoken, and Ford is their top choice in three of five categories represented in Best of Show balloting at the 2015 Chicago Auto Show – the only major auto show to poll its attendees. With 38 percent of the vote, Ford GT is the runaway favorite for best all-new production vehicle, beating(…)
Ford rolls out an intensive training program to prepare skilled trades and production workers at its Kansas City Assembly Plant to produce the all-new F-150 pickup – the toughest, smartest, most capable F-150 ever – through innovative manufacturing process The skilled trades program – tried and tested at Dearborn Truck Plant – includes more than(…)
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration awards the all-new 2015 Mustang a five-star Overall Vehicle Score in its New Car Assessment Program All-new Mustang has twice as many airbags, twice as many peripheral crash sensors and additional pretensioning safety belt technology compared to the outgoing model The new Mustang is the first car to offer four-,(…)
Ford EcoBoost® Challenge gives consumers across America a fun and free weekend opportunity to test drive the hottest and most innovative Ford products and features For 2015, EcoBoost Challenge expands to 17 cities, and provides participants a chance to win an EcoBoost-powered 2015 Ford Edge EcoBoost Challenge features the most highly anticipated Ford models, including all-new(…)
2015 Ford Edge Sport is the most powerful Edge yet, thanks to a 2.7-liter EcoBoost®V6 making 315 horsepower and 350 lb.-ft. of torque All-new Edge Sport, re-engineered from the ground up, features special sport-tuned suspension, specific Sport styling for exterior and interior, and a long list of available driver-assist technologies Scheduled to go on sale(…)
New Ford Focus includes enhanced transitional stability technology designed to predict potential vehicle spinouts; intervenes earlier than previous systems to help prevent the driver from losing control of the car System uses real-time sensor data to trigger spinout-mitigating braking inputs from vehicle’s electronic stability control Technology combines real-time data from sensors throughout the car to(…)
Third-generation Ford Focus RS will be available in major markets around the world and for the first time in the United States; Focus RS follows the reveal last month of the new Ford GT supercar – a new era of Ford performance that will deliver 12 new vehicles by 2020 All-new Ford Performance All-Wheel Drive(…)
Ford is opening the Research and Innovation Center Palo Alto to accelerate its development of technologies and experiments in connectivity, mobility, autonomous vehicles, customer experience and big data Ford forms research alliance with Stanford, delivering Fusion Hybrid Autonomous Research Vehicle to university engineers for next phase of testing Dragos Maciuca, an experienced Silicon Valley engineer,(…)
“Mustang” is the 16th most common password on the Internet according to a recent study by SplashData, besting both “superman” in 21st place and “batman” in 24th Mustang is the only car to appear in the top 25 most common Internet passwords Adding letters, numbers, acronyms and symbols to your favorite pony car-inspired code for(…)