Tag: FORD

If you recently received an e-mail offer for $15,500 2010 Ford Fusion hybrid, you can just go ahead and move that to your spam folder. The automaker is the latest company to have its name used in an spam scam and has no intentions of giving you a deal this good. As AutoblogGreen reports, an e-mail from "Ford Motor Company" is making the rounds. The e-mail offers a deal on the popular model: "Due ...

The Brits get all the cool stuff -- Queen Elizabeth II, The Sex Pistols... and now a rubbish truck that runs on rubbish (sort of). That's right: up in Huddersfield they've just unleashed a modded three-and-a-half ton Smith Edison Ford Transit garbage truck that tools around, picking up garbage, hauls it to a nearby Energy from Waste power station and recycling center which then burns the 'bage ...

Ford is on a mission. The mission, as most of you may have guessed, is to completely reverse the effects of producing sub-par, environmentally inefficient, technologically challenged automobiles for decades. It seems the prospect of going bankrupt has finally inspired Ford to give customers what they really want (besides a "made in America" sticker). The new Ford Taurus is a perfect example ...

Today, a spokesman for Ford Motor Company announced that the auto manufacturer has developed a self-parking technology that will be available on Ford vehicles beginning with 2010 models, the AP reports. The 2010 Lincoln MKS and the new Lincoln MKT will be the first models to offer the option of the technology, which -- at the mash of a button -- guides the vehicle into parallel parking spots. ...

Face it, kids. You missed the best time to be a teenager by around five or so years. As it stands now, technology is cutting into that adolescent fun, with device like Ford's MyKey and this one here ensuring that you're actually safe behind the wheel. In all seriousness, the terribly named Key2SafeDriving is a fine concept (at least in the parent's eye), as it fuses a cellphone jammer (of sorts) ...

There's not exactly a shortage of options out there for parents that want to keep watch on their kids' driving, but Ford looks to be taking things a bit further than most with its new MyKey system, and it's making it standard issue, no less. Set to debut in the 2010 Focus Coupe and plenty of other Ford vehicles shortly thereafter, the key-based system will let parents limit their car's top driving ...

Nary a month after an E Ink exec asserted that e-newspapers would be going commercial by 2009, in flies word that a forthcoming issue of Esquire will likely be the poster child for the change. According to David Granger, Esquire's editor in chief, rags have generally "looked the same for 150 years," but all that will change when 100,000 copies of the September issue arrive on newsstands with a ...

Back in July, we reported that Ford was working with Southern California Edison to research plug-in hybrid and electric cars. That partnership is bearing fruit already with talk of the reborn Escort badge being slapped onto a compact plug-in hybrid car. Plug-in hybrids allow you to charge the car overnight before heading for work so you can make your commute on battery power (depending on length ...

In a somewhat surprising move, Ford Motor Company is creating an alliance with utility company Southern California Edison to pledge a partnership to research and produce both plug-in hybrid and fully electric autos. The company is pledging to produce cars of both types in much greater numbers than it does today, with only a single hybrid product, the Escape SUV, currently in its lineup. The basic ...