Ford Econoline News

U.S. October sales of the Taurus jumped to 6,076 units from 2,517 a year ago. Sales of the Fusion rose 24.1% to 13,445 vehicles from a year ago, and Escape sales rose 26.1% to 12,471 units.

What's bigger than a picnic basket and even better than one in the eyes of black bears that live in Yosemite National Park? A study published this month in the Journal of Mammalogy says it's minivans driven by families with children who leave behind a trail of spilled juice boxes, Cheerios and coolers carrying other snacks.

To keep up in competitive automotive segments, manufacturers issue new or substantially revised products every five to seven years.

Got the Econoline Blues? Need a cheap, roomy van to haul your indie band's gear from one college town to the next? Your plumbing company's profits circling the drain as gasoline prices rise? You're a handyman who needs a handy van? Ford's ready to change your tune with the 2010 Transit Connect.

A faulty switch has caused Ford to recall four and a half million vehicles. The announcement is an expansion of a recall that now includes 14-million vehicles in the last ten years.

Starting October 26, Ford will recall 4.5 million cars to fix a leaky cruise control switch that may lead to car fires.

Ford plans to recall 4.5 million vehicles with a faulty cruise control deactivation switch, according to the Detroit News.

Ford workers in Avon Lake continue producing commercial vans, but the future of that plant is by no means certain.

In Europe, the Ford Transit Connect is common enough to blend into the landscape.

The Joplin Public Library, beginning today, will display books, magazines and movie titles that patrons have challenged during the past several years.

This week, TheCarConnection.com updated its full review of the Ford Ranger for 2010, and even though we haven't driven the 2010 yet we've driven countless earlier models and can speak from experience.

" Hankook may just be the largest tire company that you've never heard of. Established in 1941 and presently the seventh largest tire manufacturer in the world, South Korea-based Hankook counts major automakers such as General Motors, Ford, Dodge, Volkswagen, Brabus-Smart, and Hyundai/Kia among its customers; chances are that if you own a ...

Built by legendary hot rodders Mike and Larry Alexander, the one-off pickup truck won the Ridler Award at the 1967 Detroit Autorama and was immortalized a year later as one of the original 16 Hot Wheels model cars.

In 2007 Ford announced that a number of its automobiles had problems with their cruise control systems.

Avon Lake Mayor Karl Zuber and Sheffield Mayor John Hunter begged for help to keep Ford's Ohio Assembly Plant strong at a meeting Tuesday attended by state legislators at Lorain County Community College.

The Cash for Clunkers program has gotten a lot of cars of dealer lots but the dealers haven't seen much cash.

Recently, my friend got the word that her 1996 Plymouth van was dead. The vehicle, worth about $1,000, needed a $2,500 engine.

The people who have made "cash for clunkers" such a success were fence-sitters - a Virginia family wondering whether to keep pouring money into what they called the "dog car," a Colorado couple hanging on to their Ford in case the children ever wanted it.

To the government, old gas hogs are clunkers. To the giant scrap yard shredder on Grade Lane, they are food .

A rusted 1987 Ford Econoline van with the word "clunker" on the windshield was traded in for a newer vehicle at Gibson Chevrolet in South Holland, Ill.