Ford F-150 News

Ford notched a win when in June, its line of F-Series pickups outsold the Toyota Camry .

The Ford F-Series pickup truck has reigned as the top selling vehicle in this country for the last 27 years.

Just as Ella Fitzgerald said, nowadays "it ain't necessarily so," and we must observe the new F-150 in a slightly different light.

The second-largest U.S. automaker accounted for 18 percent of sales last month, up from 14.6 percent a year earlier, according to Autodata Corp.

Ford of Canada sold 27,408 units representing a 24.6 per cent increase over sales the same month last year, marking the first year-over-year sales increase of 2009.

"Work truck" has a deeper meaning for Ford than merely a grunt machine that can tow and haul.

Ford faced an uphill battle when the company launched its redesigned 2009 F-150 full-size pickup truck last year during the the height of the gas-price spike.

Everyone seemed a little shocked when I, the office's token transplanted New Yorker, expressed interest in driving the two largest vehicles currently in our fleet, the Dodge Ram and Ford F-150. "Have you ever driven anything that big before?" someone asked.

There's more good news all around for Ford-it beats out Toyota , GM, Honda , and other full-line mainstream brands and has taken the top mainstream-brand spot in AutoPacific's 2009 Ideal Vehicle Awards .

The new JD Power Initial Quality Survey is out, and several Big 3 models are tops in their class.

Three automakers will receive nearly $8 billion in federal loans to boost production of fuel-efficient vehicles in the United States.

Money is starting to flow from the Energy Department 's $25 billion loan program to develop U.S.-based advanced technology manufacturing capacity for fuel-efficient and battery vehicles, and the first $8 billion round goes to Ford , Tesla and Nissan .

The third piece of the DOE's funding puzzle that was laid out this morning goes, as expected , to Ford.

Ford Motor Co. just got a little more help in the plan to retool the Michigan Truck Plant.

Today, the Obama Administration announced that it would spend $8 billion in conditional loan commitments for the development of advanced vehicle technologies.

Chrysler and General Motors may not be out of the running, as the U.S. Department of Energy plans to provide additional loan guarantees for advanced vehicle technologies.

Employees of Ford Motor Co. gave U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu a standing ovation today when he announced that the Dearborn automaker would receive $5.9 billion in loans for the development of fuel efficient cars.

Hot on the heels of yesterdaya s reveal of the candidate list for the Europe-based 2010 World Car of the Year awards comes the list of entrants for next yeara s respective North American Car and Truck of the Year awards.

The Obama administration said Tuesday it would lend $5.9 billion to the Ford Motor Co.

Detroit's top-selling auto brands Ford and Chevrolet have almost eliminated a long-criticized gap with Toyota in quality, the results of a closely watched survey released on Monday found.