Ford Focus News

Thieves stole a pair of silver Audi cars after breaking into a Chineham house through the letter box.

Today we were in Michigan to learn quite a lot about the 2011 Ford Fiesta--absolutely none of which we're allowed to share with you today.

LAND Rover's Discovery 4 was named the 2009 Scottish Car of the Year at a glittering awards ceremony.

Ford is banking on its newest subcompact to pull entry-level buyers into its showrooms come next summer.

Before the original Ford Fiesta debuted in 1976, there were more than 50 potential names for it, including the Tempo.

Americans have been schooled to think of fuel efficiency in terms of miles per gallon.

And all that marketing mojo appears to be paying off, as the Ford Motor Company has told The Detroit News that EcoBoost has really taken off on the showroom floor.

A year ago, when the heads of Detroit's Big Three - GM's Rick Wagoner, Ford's Alan Mulally, and Chrysler's Bob Nardelli - appeared in the infamous Capitol Hill bailout hearings, many lawmakers, and many Americans, decided that this trio from the industrial heartland could all be tarred with the bad-CEO brush.

You could get a Focus sedan, a three- or five-door hatch and even a wagon. For a few years there was even a high-revving SVT Focus .

George Pipas told the Automotive Press Association in Detroit Friday that downsizing baby boomers and millenials entering the market, looking for compacts and subcompacts, will drive increased sales.

Ford Focus Focus on features for the money It's practical, affordable, comfortable and well laid out.

2001 was a long time ago, though, and the past eight years haven't exactly been stellar for the Blue Oval.

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.

There are different estimates and projections regarding when, and if, electric vehicles will transform our transportation infrastructure, but one thing seems certain: carmakers won't be able to transform the infrastructure on their own.

Ford Motor Company announced that Azure Dynamics Corp. has joined in a collaborative effort to deliver a pure battery electric Ford Transit Connect van for the United States and Canadian markets in 2010.

Michigan car buyers tend to purchase what their neighbors make, but that doesn't matter as much to the rest of the country, according to an analysis of data from the "cash for clunkers" incentive program.

Billed as a way for the government to put more fuel-efficient vehicles on highways, the popular $3 billion Cash for Clunkers program mostly involved swaps of old Ford or Chevrolet pickups for new ones that got only marginally better gas mileage, according to an analysis of new federal data.

Improved storage spaces, better-positioned controls and attractive ice-blue backlighting Kelley Blue Book Well-arranged dashboard has mostly intuitive and handy controls ConsumerGuide Gawky profile doesn't mesh with the restyled front and back at all Cars.com It's been two years since Ford's complete redesign of the Focus, but the fresh styling ...

In order to put together this conclusive review on the new 2010 Ford Focus, TheCarConnection.com's editors researched road tests and reviews from a wide range of sources.