Ford Expedition News

It was 50 years ago -- indeed, half a century -- that Volkswagen's ad agency, Doyle Dane Bernbach, coined the classic ad campaign for the diminuitive German car -- "Think Small." What goes around comes around.

First, a primer: the "the Total Value Index" took into account more than 48,000 buyers of 2009 models from September, 2008 to March, 2009.

Bill Fisher and Bob Waar Complete guide for hot rodding all Chevy small-block engines 265 to 400 cubic inches.

The Edge Sport also comes with 20-inch wheels as standard equipment. There are substantive improvements as well, notably a new calibration of the 265-horsepower 3.5-liter V6 with its six-speed automatic transmission that improves the fuel-efficiency of the front-wheel-drive Edge to an EPA-rated 18 mpg city/25 mpg highway , while improving the ...

A three-year fuel efficiency study is under way at the state Department of Agriculture, where 11 vehicles have been outfitted with equipment to use liquid propane as a complement to gasoline in each tank.

The Warwick City Council voted 7-0 to spend $7,400 at Monday night's city council meeting to purchase "various work boots" for city employees in the personnel department.

Ford Motor Company, working with academic researchers in Canada and one of its suppliers, has developed a wheat straw-reinforced plastic; the natural fiber-based plastic contains 20% wheat straw bio-filler. First application is on the 2010 Ford Flexa TMs third-row interior storage bins.

DEARBORN, Mich., Nov. 11, 2009 Ford Motor Company , working with academic researchers and one of its suppliers, is the first automaker to develop and use environmentally friendly wheat straw-reinforced plastic in a vehicle.

Joe Hinrichs, the Ford Motor Co. global manufacturing czar and labor chief who played a visible role crafting plans that spared Louisville Assembly from closure and got it in line for a modernization, has been named company group vice president and president of operations in Asia Pacific and Africa, the automaker announced Tuesday.

The City of Sevierville announces an internet auction of seized vehicles and assorted items will be conducted at www.govdeals.com , beginning at 9:00AM on October 29, 2009 and concluding on November 9, 2009.

Less than a week before UAW Local 862 workers at Ford Motor Co. 's Louisville Assembly Plant and Kentucky Truck Plant are slated to vote on concessions sought by the automaker, union workers at Ford's Kansas City Assembly Plant in Claycomo, Mo.

Two women in a U-Haul truck carjacked a man at gunpoint as he was driving in Industry Monday morning, officials said.

The Texas Auto Writers Association, a scruffy bunch that includes me, named the 2010 Ford F-150 its Truck of Texas last weekend as part of the Texas Truck Rodeo.

Ford Motor Co. is expected to build a new version of the Escape at the Louisville Assembly Plant in late 2011, followed by manufacture of the Kuga, a miniature crossover sport utility vehicle built on a chassis used now in the Focus, a source familiar with the company's plans said Thursday.

The 2010 Ford F-150 SVT Raptor has been named the 2009 Truck of Texas by the Texas Auto Writers Association, the seventh consecutive time a Ford truck has won the award.

TheCarConnection.com has covered all the bases by looking to a wide range of review sources relevant to the 2010 Ford Edge.

WINDSOR, Ont. -- Ford Motor Co. will radically curtail its fourth-quarter production to match diving vehicle sales, a move that will force numerous temporary plant shutdowns in North America and result in at least 350 job losses in Windsor.

The Durant School Board approved two bids on behalf of the school district Monday afternoon.

September auto sales fell back to Earth from the summer's higher levels, confirming what some analysts had warned of, that the federal government's "Cash for Clunkers" program was a huge sugar rush for the economy that, once worn off, would return the car industry to its previously groggy state.

One of the more interesting parts of our annual Lube Operators Survey is the section that deals with specific vehicles.