Ford News
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By AFP
New York -
US auto giant Ford is poised to cut thousands of jobs worldwide, with reductions expected to total about 10 percent of its global workforce, the Wall Street Journal reported late Monday.
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2017 will likely go down in the history books as a year of disruption. Old industries are being reshaped by bold new ideas, technologies and modes of communication.
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By AFP
Los Angeles -
Hollywood star Harrison Ford is to avoid punishment over a near-miss at a California airport as he was piloting his private plane, his lawyer told AFP on Monday.
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President-elect Donald Trump is claiming he is responsible for Ford Motor Company keeping an assembly plant in Kentucky and not moving it to Mexico. Actually, Ford never said it was moving the plant.
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By AFP
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Booze and driving are a bad combination, but US auto company Ford and Mexico's tequila maker Jose Cuervo have found a way to mix together.
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Aside from acquiring the ability to help build cars, robots at the Ford Motor Company’s assembly plant in Germany can also make coffee and even give massages.
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By AFP
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Former Toronto mayor Rob Ford, who made international headlines when he was caught using crack cocaine while in office in Canada's largest city, died Tuesday at age 46 after a battle with cancer.
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February auto sales in the United States rose at a seasonally adjusted annual rate in February of 17.43 million according to WardsAuto. Autodata put the rate at 17.54 million.
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Ford announced on Thursday at the Chicago Auto Show that it will launch four new sport-utility vehicles over the next four years, recognizing their popularity among millennials and baby boomers.
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A third automaker has issued a recall of a line of vehicles equipped with a specific manufacturer's components following an internal review of the cars' airbags.
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By AFP
Los Angeles -
Hollywood star Harrison Ford was injured when the small plane he was flying suffered engine failure and crash-landed on a golf course outside Los Angeles, officials said.
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Microsoft has publicly revealed the next installment in its Forza Motorsport Xbox racing series. The sixth major addition to the long-running franchise accompanied by the spin-off Forza Horizon, it is expected to launch at some point this year.
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Sydney -
Generosity to oneself is pretty normal. When U.S. corporations who refuse to consider raising minimum wage and audit staff toilet time start giving their pet high flyers more money than they pay in taxes, questions need to be asked. Nobody's asking.
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Ford has developed a car seat that can detect if a driver is having a heart attack. If such a condition is detected, automated braking and steering systems can be activated to stop the vehicle.
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On Thursday, Ford Motor Company announced that it has plans to add 1,200 new jobs at its assembly plant in Kansas City, Missouri.
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New technology may see electric vehicles gaining a similar boost of speed to their older counterparts. By using an "electric turbo" system drivers allegedly can get both the speed they want and still be environmentally conscious.
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Detroit -
Ford said it recently discovered an error in their calculation used to determine fuel efficiency. That meant to them that the gas mileage was less than advertised, usually by between one and five miles per gallon.
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By AFP
New York -
Ford Motor issued two vehicle recalls Monday, one to fix a corrosion risk that could affect steering and another to replace seat frames that do not meet safety standards.
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By AFP
Saint Petersburg -
Ford's Russian joint venture said Wednesday it plans to cut a third of its staff at its factory outside the northwestern city of Saint Petersburg due to falling sales.
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By Reuters
Ford Motor Co <F.N> and its Chinese joint ventures sold 73,040 vehicles in China in February, up 67 percent from a year earlier, the U.S. automaker said on Thursday.
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By Reuters
Ford Motor Co will build its redesigned Edge midsize crossover at its Oakville Assembly plant near Toronto, the second-largest U.S. automaker announced on Thursday.
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By Reuters
Ford Motor Co <F.N> and its Chinese joint ventures sold 94,466 vehicles in China in January, an increase of 53 pct from a year earlier, the U.S. automaker said on Wednesday.
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By AFP
New York -
US auto giant Ford Motor Tuesday reported higher quarterly profits that beat expectations but warned of a tougher pricing environment in North America and rising financial risk in South America.
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By AFP
Washington -
Ford Motor Co. said Wednesday it was teaming up with researchers at two US universities to work on obstacles, technical and otherwise, to automated driving.
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By AFP
Detroit -
They may have rebounded at home in the United States, but US automakers General Motors and Ford are losing ground in the troubled but strategic European market.
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What could be better than America's Ford C-MAX Energi plug-in hybrid, which debuted two years ago and gets the best combined miles per gallon equivalent in its class (100 combined MPGe, from the EPA-estimated 108 city/92 highway)?
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London -
Two security specialist develop software capable of taking full control of car while being driven. US Government financing the project to root out all possible vulnerabilities.
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Toronto -
The Toronto Mayor Ford crack video scandal took another twist with the revelation that Mayor Ford said that he knew where the video was, and giving two addresses.
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Ford is facing more demand for the F-Series trucks, and now the company will be adding a third shift, as well as hiring more than a thousand new workers at their final assembly plant.
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Dearborn -
R.L. Polk & Co. report that the Ford Focus was the best-selling car in the world in 2012. Ford registered a total of 1.02 million Focus vehicles during 2012.
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Toronto Mayor Rob Ford and his wife, Renate.
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