Ford Automobiles Blog

Ford's chief Alan Mulally has modest goals for the automaker's first EV, according to Bloomberg. Mulally expects initial sales of the 2012 Ford Focus Electric to ramp up later in its production cycle. Mulally's modest expectations seem to be grounded in reality: Chevy and Nissan noted lower-than-expected sales during their EVs' ...    Read more

Following up on the Tourneo Custom passenger van shown earlier this year, Ford will introduce the new Transit Custom cargo van in Europe next week. The Transit Custom makes its debut at the Birmingham Commercial Vehicle show in the U.K., and goes on sale in Europe later this year. It's ...    Read more

A late March explosion at a chemical manufacturer's plant in Germany could have an adverse effect on automotive production across the globe, a Bloomberg BusinessWeek report suggests. Evonik Industries produces a key ingredient to make automotive resin – a product used in both brake and fuel lines – and up ...    Read more

Today marks the 48th anniversary of the Ford Mustang. The original car was launched on April 17, 1964, at the New York World's Fair. To pay tribute to the storied pony car, we decided to take a brief look back at the history of the Ford Mustang. First Generation -- 1964-1973 The ...    Read more

Seeing exotic machinery take to the Nurburgring's tarmac isn't uncommon. But seeing a 2013 Ford Shelby GT500- and one that appears to be a development mule - on the 'Ring isn't something you see every day. Yet that's exactly what our spy photographers managed to capture. Actually, our spy photographer was ...    Read more

A study that questioned 5500 drivers across five European countries found that 48 percent of them had texted while driving. Compare that study to a similar one done in the United States and one thing is clear: it's almost exactly the same proportion of drivers as in the United States. The ...    Read more

Despite a series-imposed penalty, Chevrolet dominated the top 10 results of both NASCAR Sprint Cup race at the Texas Motor Speedway, and the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach. Chevrolet-powered cars took eight of the top 10 spots in the ...    Read more

We may not all be getting tax refunds this year, but according to CNN Money, the average American household will be getting $2913 back. Depending on if you’re part of the 99 Percent or the 1 Percent, that’s either a whole lot of scratch, or a dinner out with your ...    Read more

If you didn’t win the lottery but are still itching to drive a new Ford Focus Electric, you may still have your chance. Ford and Yahoo! have collaborated for a new reality show on Yahoo! Screen. “Plugged In” will pit competitors against one another to win a new Ford Focus ...    Read more

Ford is partnering with The Dow Chemical Company to develop carbon fiber composites for use in mainstream vehicles. By using the lightweight materials in future vehicles, Ford hopes it could trim as much as 750 pounds from new cars and trucks by 2020. Because carbon fiber composites are lighter than steel ...    Read more

Ford is employing an army of robots with laser eyes and suction cup hands to build the 2013 Escape crossover. First put to work in Ford’s European facilities, the laser- and camera-aided robots are intended to increase quality on U.S.-assembled Escape models at Ford’s Louisville, Ky. ...    Read more

Ford has launched the official configurator for the 2013 Escape, allowing interested buyers to build the compact CUV of their dreams. Ford already launched a preliminary configurator in January but, as we reported, that tool didn’t show finalized prices. Now we know a front-drive 2013 Ford Escape S ...    Read more

General Motors may be busy forging an alliance with PSA-Peugeot Citroen, but its cross-town rival – the Ford Motor Company – is actively in the process of exiting a similar joint venture. While the GM-PSA deal is a wide-sweeping deal that potentially calls for the sharing of components, powertrains, platforms, and ...    Read more

The Problem: Ford is recalling some 2012 Ford Focus models built between August 1, 2010 through October 18, 2011. The wiring harness connector to the passenger-side wiper motor may be missing a seal. With the seal missing, water or other contaminants could accumulate in the connector, resulting in intermittent or ...    Read more

The 2013 Ford Mustang is still relatively young (we just drove it only last month), but that hasn’t stopped Roush Performance Vehicles from announcing its latest range of performance-tuned Mustangs. In fact, Roush says its three new packages for the ...    Read more

Car enthusiasts often quip that you can never have too much (or even enough) horsepower, but we think Shelby American might be approaching that limit. To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the original Shelby Cobra, the company has cooked up two new Ford Mustang variants, the 950-hp Shelby 1000 and ...    Read more

"It's meant to be a driving enthusiast's car that you can take anywhere," says chief engineer Bill Gubing of the 2013 Ford Explorer Sport. "It's just an awesome, fun package to drive." Really? We were at first skeptical that Ford had transformed the Explorer SUV into a genuinely sporty vehicle, but the ...    Read more

The compact sales race was close in March, with just four units separating the top two spots, and only a 94-unit difference between first and third place. The sales volume victor for the month was the Ford Focus, which sold 28,293 units. Coming in right on its heels ...    Read more

March was a month with little surprises in the midsize sedan segment. The winner's list reads almost exactly the same as last month, and as we said last month, there's something of a natural pecking order among the competitors. Three of the cars from the middle of the pack, the ...    Read more

A shiny red 2013 Ford Fusion may have been parked nearby, but at a lunch with media at the Manhattan Ford dealership, Ford president of the Americas Mark Fields was more interested in talking about the company's sales success, its leadership in fuel economy, the future of Lincoln, and in-car ...    Read more

Ford recently decided to get its engineers out of the office by sending them to what they thought was an ordinary commercial shoot. What the engineers got was the ride-along opportunity of a lifetime with NASCAR racer Carl Edwards in a 365-hp ...    Read more

Ford Motor Company's upward march in sales numbers continued last month: the Dearborn automaker posted a 5.0 percent increase over last year, selling 223,418 cars, trucks, and utilities. It was also a month of bests for the company: not only did Ford Motor Company post its best March in five ...    Read more

Though Mopar’s official concepts may have stolen the show at this year’s Jeep Easter Safari in Moab, Utah, three notable entries from Venchurs Vehicle Systems also ignited off-road enthusiasts’ passion. When you bring a bulletproof Ram 1500 that breathes fire and a machine gun-packing Jeep pickup ...    Read more

Steve Saleen is back at the head of the Saleen brand, ending a nearly five-year stretch in which the name Saleen and the man Saleen were unrelated. Not only is the confusion over, the madness of Saleen-branded high-powered muscle ...    Read more

We've long known that the 2013 Ford Fusion will feature economical stop-start technology in some way, but Ford has announced that the feature will be a $295 option on cars equipped with the turbocharged ...    Read more