: September sales for Ford Motor Company of Canada, Limited were powered by positive year-over-year sales increases on several of its crossovers and cars. Sales increased last month on Ford Focus, Ford Escape, Ford Edge and also rose for Lincoln MKX and Lincoln MKZ. Sales momentum also continued on the company’s newest entries – Ford [...]
Ford Motor Company recognizes that schools need to raise funds to support their extracurricular activities. So, the Drive One 4 UR School program (formally the Cruise 4 UR School program) was developed as a unique way to engage the local community and support their fund-raising efforts. Since launching in December of 2007, more than one [...]
Someone took family bus very seriously at Ford. Not only is the 2009 Ford Flex capable of busing the family about, it even looks like a bus. Either that or we now know what happens when you scale up a Mini Cooper to have a third row of seats. Seriously, the 2009 Ford Flex is [...]
Ford has said in the past that it wasn’t looking to bring its lovable little Ka subcompact to the United States, but increased demand for fuel efficient transportation has the Dearborn-based automaker rethinking its plans. The Ka is very popular in Europe, where fuel-sipping cars have long been accepted, but the tiny Ka has never [...]
Ford Motor Co. today unveiled a new car key that holds a computer chip that can help parents keep tabs and a restraining virtual hand on their teen drivers. The automaker said the new MyKey feature is slated to first become standard equipment in the 2010 Focus Coupe. The chip limits top speed to 80 [...]
Rising demand for small cars has pushed strong Ford Motor Co. /strong to revisit its decision not to bring the tiny European Ka model to the United States, Ford #8217;s chief executive said Monday. /p p #8220;We #8217;re assessing that right now, #8221; CEO Alan Mulally told a Detroit radio station, adding that a lot [...]
Until he was laid off at the end of July as part of a sweeping round of white-collar cuts — including the first involuntary dismissals in decades — Almasy was living a lifelong dream, he says, one arguably as American as Motown itself. A dynamics engineer at Ford, he helped make parts — wheels, springs, [...]
“We’re assessing that right now,” Alan Mulally told a Detroit radio station, adding that many people share the opinion that Ford should sell the Ka — about the size of the Smart fortwo — on this side of the Atlantic. A new version of the Ka was unveiled last week at the Paris Motor Show. [...]
I just heard about Ford’s newest technology that it will put in the 2010 Ford Focus. The MyKey system is every parent’s dream. What MyKey does is act as a de facto electronic baby-sitter for your teen driver when you can’t ride shotgun. It electronically limits top speed to 80 mph. (You think they would [...]
Email to a friend Printer friendly Font: * * * * “MyKey can help promote safer driving, particularly among teens, by encouraging seatbelt use, limiting speed and reducing distractions,”said Susan Cischke, Ford group vice-president of environment and safety engineering. In Ontario, the speed limiter will be enough to prevent teens from breaching the province’s [...]
