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Ford is auctioning off the Shelby GT500 prototype that underwent 24 hour durability testing. The proceeds from the auction at Barrett-Jackson will go to Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. The car was originally built in 2007 as one of...

Ford is claiming that the new B-Max is one of the safest vehicles that it has ever produced. It developed a virtual crash testing system that let it put the B-Max through 5000 virtual collisions from every angle. The car also has passive safety fe...

Ford has had its B-Max tested, and it has been rated as the best vehicle in its class in terms of fuel economy and emissions for both its petrol and diesel engines.  The 1.6 liter TDCi diesel with 95ps delivers 104g/km of CO2 emissions an...

Ford has begun mass production of the B-Max as its new factory in Craiova, Romania. Romanian President Traian Basescu purchased the first car off the line. Ford has invested €500 million into the plant. Last month, Ford began producing the 1....

Ford has begun producing the three-cylinder, 1.0 liter Ecoboost turbocharged engine at its factory in Craiova, Romania. Ford predicts that the added production will triple the number of EcoBoost engines on the road in Europe by 2015. By 2015,...

Ford will begin offering the Fiesta with the dual-clutch Powershift automatic transmission in some trim levels in India. The model will be among India's most fuel efficient cars using 5.9l/100km, 39.9mpg. It will sell for the current equivalen...

Ford has begun production of its new three-cylinder, one liter Ecoboost engine at its factory in Cologne, Germany. Ford's tiniest petrol engine will on sale in early 2012 in Europe, and Ford says it will later launch the engine worldwide. ...

Ford has finally put the 1.0 liter Ecoboost Focus up for sale in Europe.  Ford has a 100ps with 4.8l/100km of petrol and 109g/km of CO2 version and a 125ps version that uses 5.0l/100km of fuel and produces 114g/km of CO2. Both versions pr...

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Ford has begun using 3D mapping for quality assurance in the production of rear axle parts for the F-Series range of pickups. It believes that it is the first application of the technology for quality assurance on the assembly line. The camera...

Ford has broken ground on a new $760 million factory in Hangzhou, China, that will have an initial capacity of 250,000 vehicles per year. When the factory is finished in 2015, Ford will build 1.2 million cars a year in China. Since 2006, Ford...