Filed under: Trucks/Pickups , Plants/Manufacturing , Ford Click above for high-res gallery of the 2009 Ford F-150 Ford's plans to manufacture the F-100 pickup , its answer for consumers who want a more fuel-efficient pickup, have been shelved (for now). A proposed smaller and lighter sibling to the...

Filed under: Hirings/Firings/Layoffs , Ford For white collar workers that still work at the Ford Motor Company: congratulations, you've officially made the cut. Ford's President of the Americas, Mark Fields, announced at a media event that the Blue Oval has successfully achieved its targeted...

This new small batch of photos of the highly anticipated 2009 Ford Fiesta show off the hatch's more feminine side. No shots of the Fiesta rounding a curve or running the ring here, just ghost women on cell phones and bright pastel colors. If the RHD wasn't enough of a tip that this is a non-US...

Filed under: Safety , Crossovers/CUVs , Ford Click above for high-res gallery of 2009 Ford Edge The blind spot has been a consistent safety issue for automobiles since before the invention of the C-pillar. Some automakers have recently tackled the problem with complicated warning systems that beep when...

Filed under: Etc. , Marketing/Advertising , Ford Despite Ford's mostly successful efforts to yank its product line along by the earlobes, it still needs to find cost savings. To that end, the advertising arms of the Ford and Lincoln-Mercury divisions have been combined, bucking the traditional Balkanization...

The new 2009 Ford Flex has scored five-star safety ratings from NHTSA in all four front and side-impact tests. The Flex numbers beat those of the rival Toyota Highlander , which received a four-star rating for the passenger in frontal tests. Ford also scored a four-star rating in the rollover test using...

Filed under: Trucks/Pickups , Ford Click above for high-res gallery of the 2009 Ford F-150 The pickup truck market may have run out of steam, but the 2009 Ford F-150 can haul an 11,300-lb trailer full of coal if the need ever arises. The next F-150 will keep its light duty pickup towing title when it...

Filed under: Safety , Crossovers/CUVs , Ford Click above for a high-res gallery of the Ford Flex. Ford has made safety one of its top priorities, and its efforts have paid off. Not only does the Blue Oval have more five-star crash rated vehicles than any other automaker, but it's added another notch...

Ford has announced that the redesigned 2009 F-150 pickup will have best-in-class towing capacity of 11,300 pounds, up 300 pounds from the 2008 model, according to PickupTrucks.com . The weight rating is 500 pounds greater than that found on its nearest competitor, the Toyota Tundra , and marks an important...

Filed under: Convertibles , Coupes , Sports/GTs , Ford , ROUSH , Special/Limited Editions Click to enlarge Ford partnered with ROUSH on the Stage3 Blackjack Mustang back in 2006, and in 2007, Ford said it would make 100 of them. New Yorker Drew Conner bought Blackjack number two, spending almost $59...