The technology will enable Ford customers with Dewalt equipment to track the location of tools, construction equipment and materials tagged with radio sensors. The company said the tracking system will allow managers to quickly account for and track the location of expensive assets.
Chennai : Ford India Pvt Ltd has decided to make a small car in India 10 years after it set up operations in the country. The company says it will introduce a small car in India some time in 2010 at its Maraimalainagar plant near Chennai. Ford will also start exporting engines out of [...]
ST PETERSBURG, Russia (Reuters) - U.S. car maker Ford Motor Co (F.N: Quote , Profile , Research ) will resume full production at its Russian plant on Monday after a four-week strike that threatened to curtail a planned increase in output.
“Tata, the Indian company trying to bring the world’s cheapest car to the South Asian country, is expected to be named as the preferred bidder for Fords Land Rover and Jaguar brands in the next few days,” London Times said in a report on Monday. Quoting a source close to the development, the newspaper [...]
Ford’s Escape Hybrid, the world’s first commercially produced hybrid SUV, was launched in 2004, and is still the cleanest and most fuel-efficient hybrid SUV. As a full hybrid vehicle, the Escape Hybrid automatically switches between pure electric power, pure gasoline engine power or a combined operation to maximize efficiency and performance. It delivers superior fuel [...]
DETROIT As Ford Motor Co. prepares to reinstate merit raises for its white-collar workers, the increasingly upbeat automaker has promised the UAW that it will consider giving its nearly 54,000 U.S. autoworkers annual bonuses early next year even if the company doesn t meet the formula for profitsharing.
ST. PETERSBURG, November 20 (RIA Novosti) - Workers at a Ford car manufacturing factory near St. Petersburg, Russia, have launched an indefinite strike, the chairman of the plant s trade union said on Tuesday.
I have a 2005 Ford 500 that had a creak coming out of the center console that drove my wife crazy. After having the car to our local Ford dealer 5x, they failed to fix it. Once we chalked a line behind the front tire to prove that they didn’t even move the car. [...]
The Saarlouis plant is the only Ford facility that produces the C-MAX, the sporty Focus ST and the wagon variants of the Focus range. In addition, the plant’s car body unit also supplies vehicle parts to the St. Petersburg plant in Russia, and to the Focus Coupй-Cabriolet production line at the Pininfarina s. p. [...]
An announcement could come in the next fortnight, with Tata expected to pay about STG1 billion ($2.34 billion) pounds, it added. Ford, which is spinning off the British luxury marques to focus on restructuring its loss-making North American operations, said last week it aimed to complete the sale in early 2008. Tata is competing [...]
