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The US magazine Consumer Reports is considered one of these most trusted guides for purchasing anything because it attempts to be so unbiased. The magazine takes no advertising and buys everything it tests itself. In its last issue it wrote a cutt...

Ford has announced that it will bring the 1.0 EcoBoost engine to North America in the Fiesta for the 2014 model year. Ford expects that it will be the most fuel efficient, non-hybrid car available in the United States when it goes on sale, but it ...

The new generation will be five-door only

The next generation Ford Ka has been spotted testing in Germany. The latest generation will be a five-door compact that will focus on low cost and lots of space.  The platform will be modified version of the previous generation Fiesta in ...

Ford and the University of Michigan has teamed up to make cars cleaner, but not cleaner in an aesthetic sense, they want to makes automotive interiors more anti-microbial. The two groups are searching for where microbes in cars are most prevalent ...

It wants to continue to be the top truck in the US

Ford made a big deal about its commercial vehicles this year for its North American International Auto Show press conference and showed the latest version of the Transit and Transit Connect. Its big reveal for the show was the concept for the next...

Ford is aiming to have a 6% Chinese marketshare by 2015

Ford CEO Alan Mullay believes that China will eventually become an international automotive export hub, once automakers have met local demand. "I think it's just a matter of time. Over time, all of our facilities are positioned so we ...

While Ford still plans to bring the next generation Mustang to Europe, Ford worries that it is too big and has too low fuel economy to be a big seller. It had planned to offer a smaller, more fuel efficient sports coupe to compliment the Mustang, ...

Ford's display at the SEMA show this year is meant to look back the the marque's performance history and look forward to its future. It is showing a new complete body shell for the first generation Mustang convertible available to people w...

It is a gamble, but they see it as a chance

The old adage is go where the market is, and Ford, Renault and Citroën are all doing just that. The three of them all intend to create upmarket models to follow where the European market is going. Ford is launching its Vignale trim on the Mon...

Ford, Volkswagen Group, BMW, GM, Daimler, Porsche and Chrysler are working together to create a standardized, single-port DC charging technology that it calls the Combined Charging System. The corporations say that the system will charge current e...