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  • Ken Block drives the Ford F-150 Raptor in the snow

    Ford Performance and Ken Block have a symbiotic relationship. Ford provides him with race cars and the occasional other Ford product. Block drives the living daylights out of them, has his team create cool videos, and the two parties use said videos for awesome marketing campaigns. Ford gets views. Block has fun. Everyone is happy. ALSO SEE: Interview: Gymkhana and rally hero Ken Block The latest of those marketing videos is this all-too-short film of Block going all Shaun White in the 2017 Ford F-150 Raptor. Block lives in Park City, Utah, and has a history of playing in the snow on a...

  • Diagram from Ford patent for heat-generated graphics
    Ford might be looking to inject graphic heat in future Mustang

    One of the fashionable yet totally unnecessary trends in the automotive world is the use of logo-displaying puddle lamps. You open the door of your car at night, and there's a bright shining beacon letting you know exactly what you've just stepped out of or about to step into. It's a gimmick for...

  • 2017 Ford Mustang Shelby GT350R
    Ford Mustang Shelby GT350 sticking around for 2018

    The Ford Motor Company [NYSE:F] Mustang is due to receive a mid-cycle update for the 2018 model year. Among the changes will be tweaks to the bumpers and the availability of a 10-speed automatic transmission. There is also a new range-topping model in the works expected to revive the Shelby GT500...

  • 2017 Ford GT Job One
    First 2017 Ford GT bound for Ford Chairman Bill Ford, second to CEO Mark Fields

    Ford Motor Company [NYSE:F] on Friday announced that the first examples of its new GT supercar had been completed and would be on their way to customers before the year is out. It turns out that the very first example is bound for Ford Chairman Bill Ford Jr. And the second car off the line is...

  • 2017 Ford GT Job One
    First 2017 Ford GTs roll off assembly line

    The first of the 2017 Ford Motor Company [NYSE:F] GT supercars have rolled off the assembly line and will soon be in the hands of customers. The GT is built in Markham, Ontario, Canada, by Multimatic, the racing and engineering shop that helped develop the car. Ford celebrated the occasion by...

  • 2017 Ford F-150 Raptor strapped to a dyno
    2017 Ford F-150 Raptor hits dyno, does 0-60 in 5.3 seconds

    The 2017 Ford Motor Company [NYSE:F] F-150 Raptor has finally landed, and it’s better than its predecessor in pretty much every way possible. The only downside, at least to some, is that the second-generation model ditches the original’s V-8 in favor of a twin-turbocharged V-6. It may...

  • 2017 Ford Fiesta RS WRC rally car

    A new rally car based on the upcoming seventh generation of the Ford Motor Company [NYSE:F] Fiesta subcompact has been revealed. The rally car has been developed by M-Sport, a British motorsport and engineering outfit that’s helped develop a few Ford rally cars including the Focus RS RX for World Rallycross. The Fiesta rally car is designed for the 2017 World Rally Championship which is adopting some new and exciting rules. As we’ve already seen with Hyundai and Toyota’s 2017 WRC contenders, the 2017-spec cars are wider, lighter and more powerful than this year’s cars...

  • 2017 Ford F-150 Raptor
    2017 Ford F-150 Raptor first drive review: One of a kind on road and off

    Sports cars are great at going fast around corners, but you know what they can't do? They can't rip across the desert, they can't crawl over rocks, and they can't perform glorious jumps over sand dunes. You know what can? This beast can. It's the Ford F-150 Raptor, and for 2017 it's here for a...

  • '2017 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500' shows up in Google search
    ‘2017 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500’ shows up as Ford website item in Google search

    Something interesting happens when you type “GT500” into Google’s search box. One of the first items to show up is “2017 Ford Mustang Shelby GT 500 | The Cobra of Performance Cars” as an item on Ford Motor Company’s [NYSE:F] website. Clicking through the link...

  • Ford Shelby FP350S
    Ford Performance reveals track-only Shelby FP350S

    Looking for a turnkey race car to run in Trans Am, NASA, or SCCA? Look no further than your local Ford parts counter where you will soon be able to order up the Shelby FP350S. This Ford Performance product, which isn't legal for the street, was shown today at the 2016 Performance Racing Industry...

  • 2010 Ford F-150 SVT Raptor
    Why the Lightning became the Raptor

    Some of us may fondly remember the Ford Motor Company [NYSE:F] F-150 SVT Lightning. Introduced in 1993, it was a performance pickup with a more powerful V-8 under the hood and some brake and suspension upgrades to help it stop and handle better. The Lightning lasted through two generations of the...

  • New Ford GT, 2015 Detroit Auto Show
    2017 Ford GT’s interior is just like on show car

    Deliveries of Ford Motor Company’s [NYSE:F] new GT supercar should be commencing any week now. Despite this, Ford is yet to fully showcase the car in production trim. We did get a glimpse at a production version during the 2016 24 Hours of Le Mans, but only its exterior. Now we have our first...

  • Ford GT and Ford GT40 by LEGO

    Lego designers are quite good at getting us to part with our hard-earned dollars in exchange for a set of plastic bricks. That's because those bricks come in kits like the Speed Champions sets. The newest Speed Champions? A pair of iconic Ford race cars, the GT and GT40, for your scaled-down racetrack, er, desk. Ford and Lego have teamed up to create this great new kit. This one includes the original Ford GT40 as well as the recent Le Mans winning Ford GT. Like 1966, 2016 will go down as a great year for the motorsports division at the Blue Oval, and this kit is a great way to celebrate that...

  • 2018 Ford Fiesta (European spec)
    2018 Ford Fiesta revealed, features cylinder deactivation for inline-3

    Ford Motor Company [NYSE:F] on Tuesday unveiled a redesigned Fiesta. The car is expected in the United States in late 2017, as a 2018 model, and represents the seventh generation of Ford’s popular subcompact. The design is clearly evolutionary although the new car is slightly wider and more...

  • Combined Charging Standard (CCS) electric car charger
    4 automakers join forces for 350-kilowatt fast-charging network

    As they gear up to launch a new generation of volume electric cars, the major automakers are following Tesla’s [NSDQ:TSLA] lead of rolling out charging infrastructure to help eliminate range anxiety for owners. But instead of going it alone with individual standards, as Tesla has done with...

  • 2017 Ford Mustang Power Wheels
    Power Wheels Ford Mustang has traction and stability control

    Just in time for the holiday season, Fisher-Price has a new Power Wheels Mustang based on the sixth-generation version of the Ford Motor Company [NYSE:F] icon. There’s no hulking V-8 under the hood as the car is battery-powered. But that’s where the similarities with Power Wheels of old...

  • Ford GT Prototype pulled over in Colorado
    Charges dropped against speeding Ford GT prototype drivers

    If you're going to speed down the road, we don't believe the best vehicle for the task is an eye-catching prototype of an upcoming American supercar. Still, that didn't stop a trio of Ford Motor Company [NYSE:F] engineers from pushing the throttle down a bit when traipsing through the Colorado...

  • 2018 Ford Mustang facelift spy shots - Image via S. Baldauf/SB-Medien
    Leaked info suggests 2018 Ford Mustang to drop V-6, offer MagneRide

    Ford Motor Company [NYSE:F] is out testing prototypes for an updated version of the Mustang. The updates are part of a mid-cycle refresh for the sixth-generation car and are expected for the 2018 model year. Alleged dealership ordering information posted to the Mustang6G forums reveals a few new...

  • 2011 Ford Mustang GT 5.0

    Police chases often involve high speeds but rarely do we see reports of speeds in excess of 200 mph. But that’s exactly what happened last weekend in Oklahoma. Hector Fraire, aged just 19, was arrested on Saturday after a police chase in which his vehicle, a heavily modified 2011 Ford Motor Company [NYSE:F] Mustang, reached speeds as high as 208 mph. Fraire was initially spotted on a police radar doing 84 mph on a Turnpike in Oklahoma City. The police with the radar immediately gave chase but Fraire only increased his speed, eventually hitting 208 mph. To make matters worse, he switched...

  • 2018 Ford Ecosport, 2016 Los Angeles Auto Show
    Ford Ecosport subcompact SUV finally debuts in US

    The Ford Motor Company [NYSE:F] Ecosport is a subcompact SUV that's loosely based on the Fiesta and was shown for the first time in 2012. It’s Ford’s smallest SUV and was originally targeted at developing markets. However, the automaker has consistently hinted that it might end up in...

  • 2016 Ford Focus RS
    Motor Authority Best Car To Buy Nominee: 2016 Ford Focus RS

    By their nature, hot hatches are a little juvenile. They start out as economy cars and add turbocharged power, big wings, wide tires, sport suspensions, and all manner of tack-on parts to toughen the look. The new Ford Focus RS is no exception. It looks like it just dropped out of the latest Fast...

  • 2016 Ford Everest
    New Ford Bronco to be engineered in Oz?

    Could a vehicle that’s authentically American as the Ford Motor Company [NYSE:F] Bronco be engineered in another country for its next generation? That could be the case if a report out of Australia proves accurate. Motoring reports that the new Bronco set to enter production in Michigan...

  • 2017 Roush F-150 Nitemare, 2016 SEMA show
    2017 Roush F-150 Nitemare comes with 600-horsepower V-8

    Still disappointed by Ford Motor Company’s [NYSE:F] decision to equip its 2017 F-150 Raptor with a V-6? Don’t sweat it because there are a handful of reputable tuning shops that offer F-150-based performance pickups packing V-8 grunt. Among them is semi-official Ford tuner Roush, which...

  • Ford Evasive Steering Alert
    Ford previews upcoming self-driving technologies

    Ford Motor Company [NYSE:F] has promised to deliver a self-driving car within five years. It will have Level 4 self-driving capability, meaning it can drive on its own but is limited on where it can go due to a reliance on mapping data. Level 4 self-driving cars can also be upset by severe weather...

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