When you get compared to high-priced German automobiles you know you are in good company and this is exactly what Jay Leno did on the latest episode of Jay Leno’s Garage. For a man who has driven When you get compared to high-priced German automobiles you know you are in good company and this is [...]
Monthly Archives: May 2010
Vehicles
Ford brings new jobs to metro Detroit
???Ford is investing $135 million to bring battery pack and hybrid vehicle transmission production to metro Detroit. The work is currently done in Mexico and Japan. The move will result in 40 new jobs at the company’s Rawsonville plant in Ypsilanti, 130 new jobs at the Van Dyke transmission plant in Sterling Heights and 50 [...]
Mechanical
new six-speed heavy-duty transmission
SHARONVILLE — Ford Motor Co. this morning will offer the first look at production of the new six-speed heavy-duty transmission produced here for its 2011 Ford F-series Super Duty truck. Ford has invested more than $200 million over the last several years in the production line for the new 6R140 TorqShift automatic transmission that includes [...]
F-150
2010 Ford F-150 SVT off-road machine
What’s the saying? If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it? Surely this cliché holds true of most things, but the men and women at Ford SVT managed to pull off the improbable: taking the impressive SVT Raptor pickup and making it an even meaner off-road machine. How? With more power, from a brand-new engine. The [...]
Fiesta
Ford Fiesta is officially the most fuel efficient
The 2011 Ford Fiesta is officially the most fuel efficient model in its class, with the EPA announcing today that the ultra-funky hatchback and sedan rates in at 29 mpg in the city and 40 mpg on the highway when equipped with the smooth shifting six-speed PowerShift dual clutch transmission. To put that into perspective, [...]
Mustang
66 Mustang Fast Back
I’m the 4th owner of this very cool 1966 Ford Mustang 2+2 Fastback. I purchased her in 1992 from a guy whose wife hated driving it. She said the clutch was too hard to use. His son, on the other hand, loved the car and didn’t want his dad to sell it. They had plans [...]
Flex
Ford’s Twin-Turbo V-6
OF all the conundrums faced by car-shopping friends, this spurs the most calls for my advice: “We need room for the family, but we don’t want a giant S.U.V. And no matter what, do not tell us to get a minivan.” Mounting a halfhearted defense of the minivan’s virtues but making no headway, I’ll finally [...]
Fiesta
Ford’s AJ the Tweeting Fiesta
AJ the Tweeting Fiesta waits to hit the highway headed to Maker Faire Ford’s in-house computer geeks developed three other apps: “Auto”matic Blog. You knew it would come to this — the car, @AJtheFiesta, will blog or tweet from the road using info gleaned from various vehicle data sensors and engine computer codes (stuff the [...]
Super Duty Suspension Family
The line up for Ford owners just took a few leaps ahead with the introduction of our new Super Duty Suspension systems. Everything is what you should expect, plush multi rate coil springs, King and Bilstein Shock options, laser cut, dimple died and powder coated components. The systems have been tuned to deliver all around performance for daily driving, towing/hauling and recreational off-road.
New Super Duty Suspension Systems
Pintop 2.5
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Performance 2.0
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Starter System
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New Super Duty Suspension Components
Super Duty Track Bar
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4.5″ Multi Rate Coil Springs
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Fiesta
2011 Ford Fiesta starts production in Mexico
Ford expanded the Cuautitlan plant by 25,800 square meters, building in five new lines of high-productivity presses, 270 robots and in-line measuring systems, adjustable ergonomic platforms in the upholstery area and new paint facilities that are more efficient and environmentally friendly. “All the major subassemblies of the body and final assembly will be completed in [...]
