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Last week, Ford regained ownership of its blue oval logo after Moody's upgraded the company's credit score to an investment grade stock.  Ford put its blue oval logo and several factories up as collateral when Ford took out $...

Ford has patented a new technology that it calls EV+ that learns a vehicle's frequent destinations and automatically switches the car into EV mode when they are nearby. The system IS packaged as part of the Smart Gauge that comes on the C-Max ...

The factory will close in 2014

Ford will pay $750 million in severance pay to the hourly workers from its Genk, Belgium, factory when it closes in 2014. The severance works out to an average of $187,500 to each of the 4,000 hourly workers.  The workers will be paid the...

The Ford Focus ST is just starting to arrive at US dealers to give American consumers the first taste of Ford's modern hot hatch. In addition to the 250ps engine and modified exterior, Ford has worked hard on the ST's interior not only on ...

The market for inexpensive cars is growing. As the global market continues to weaken, people have less money to spend on a car. Plus, emerging markets in Africa, South America, Russia and South East Asia are buying increasingly more cars. Ford is ...

Ford is indicating that it wants to sell the next Mustang worldwide beginning sometime in 2014 for the model's 50th anniversary. It also plans to build a right-hand drive model for the first time in its history. The car will likely offer small...

They were the fastest cars tested this year

Police car performance is becoming a big point of competition among American automakers. Dodge touts its Charger Pursuit V8 All-Wheel Drive as the fastest car tested in 2013 around the Michigan State Police test track, and now Ford says that its E...

Ford released its earnings for the second quarter today, and there is some good news and some bad news. The good news is that is made $1.829 billion for the quarter. The bad news is that it made $2.878 billion in the second quarter of 2011. That m...

Unit Sales, Revenue and Profit are all up

Ford has announced second quarter after-tax profits of $1.833 billion, up $630 million from the same period in 2012, and after-tax profit in the first half of the year of $3.475 billion, up $694 million from the first half of 2012. It is the compa...

The British Government has handled Ford a 360 million loan guarantee that enables the company to give a step forward in its intensions of investing 1.5 billion pounds over the next five years in its four UK facilities. The announcement was made by t...