Ford News
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Ford Motor Company [NYSE:F] claimed victory at the 2016 24 Hours of Le Mans in the GTE Pro class. This win comes 50 years after the Blue Oval pulled off a one-two-three finish at the iconic French race using its iconic GT40. To celebrate the win made by the modern GT, Ford lit up its headquarters as a signal to the world. The Ford GT has won Le Mans. This too is a nod to the past, interestingly enough. Back in 1967, Ford flipped the switches on some well placed lights and turned its world headquarters into a boasting billboard. The message back in Dearborn read simply "Won Le Mans". The...
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Ford releases power figures for next-generation EcoBoost 3.5-liter V-6A couple months ago Ford Motor Company [NYSE:F] released information about the second generation of its EcoBoost 3.5-liter V-6, which debuts in the 2017 F-150. At the time, Ford said the twin-turbocharged engine's horsepower output would remain unchanged at 365 and torque would increase from 420 to...
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Ford lays out some of the options available to GT buyersAmong the options announced by Ford Motor Company [NYSE:F] today for its upcoming GT supercar is a choice of five shades for the vehicle's Brembo brake calipers. That degree of customizability is a new high for Ford, but then again the GT shares little with the rest of the automaker's lineup. Ford...
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Ford GT to continue racing through 2019Ford Motor Company’s [NYSE:F] new GT supercar will keep racing through the 2019 motorsport season in both the World Endurance Championship and the United SportsCar Championship. The automaker confirmed the extended motorsport program for the GT on Saturday, explaining that the program is...
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2017 Ford F-150 Raptor coming with 6 drive modesIt’s been over a year since Ford Motor Company [NYSE:F] revealed its new F-150 Raptor but there’s still plenty to learn about this performance-oriented, off-road pickup. This week Ford revealed details about the vehicle’s drive modes selector which has six modes capable of...
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Jay Leno checks out Ford's Hertz Rent-A-Racer Shelby MustangJay Leno didn't quite march down to his local Hertz Rent-A-Car to film the latest installment of his popular series, but he almost could have. This week, the celebrity car guru extraordinaire checks out the 2016 Ford Shelby GT-H and its predecessor, the original 1966 Ford Shelby Mustang GT350-H on...
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Everything is coming up Le Mans for the forthcoming 2017 Ford GT supercar. Just a couple weeks ago, Ford returned to Le Mans to commemorate the 50th anniversary of it legendary 1-2-3 finish with the GT40. The return was a success as the reborn Ford GT won its class and, in fact, took a 1-2-4 finish. The car that won at Le Mans in 1966, chassis P1046 driven by Bruce McLaren and Chris Amon, was also on hand at Le Mans after an extensive restoration. Now Ford has announced that it will offer a new Ford GT ’66 Heritage Edition to commemorate that win on the street. The '66 Heritage Edition...
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Restored Le Mans-winning 1966 Ford GT40 unveiled at Le MansFour a couple months now, we've been following the restoration of the Ford Motor Company [NYSE:F] GT40 Mk II, chassis P1046, that won the 1966 24 Hours of Le Mans. The car was purchased in 2014 by Rob Kaufman, owner of classic car dealer RK Motors Charlotte. While it was in pretty good shape...
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Leaked order guide shows Ford Mustang will get 10-speed autoFord Motor Company [NYSE:F] will continue its tit-for-tat game with Chevrolet when it installs a 10-speed automatic gearbox in the 2018 Mustang, according to information accidentally leaked to the Blue Oval's dealerships. Ford and General Motors Company [NYSE:GM] have made unlikely partners working...
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2018 Ford Focus RS500 spy shotsFord Motor Company [NYSE:F] looks to be testing an even more potent version of its Focus RS. The tester is believed to be a successor to 2010’s Focus RS500 (shown below), which was launched to mark the end of production of the previous-generation Focus. And with a next-generation Focus now in...
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2018 Ford Fiesta ST spy shotsFord Motor Company [NYSE:F] is currently developing its next-generation Fiesta hatchback and today we have spy shots of a prototype for the sporty ST model. The engineers have tried to make the tester look like one of the prototypes for the regular Fiesta but a few clues give away its identity. The...
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Watch the story of the controversy behind the Ford GT40's photo finish at Le Mans in 1966Kahn Media, with the help of the Petersen Automotive Museum, has put out a documentary about the 1966 24 Hours of Le Mans titled "8 Meters: Triumph, Tragedy and a Photo Finish at Le Mans." The video details the controversy behind one of the greatest racing achievements of all time. In 1966, after...
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It's hard to believe that this is the first time Jay Leno has welcomed one of the most iconic muscle cars of the 1960s to his Burbank, California, garage, but the time has come to fawn over Ford Motor Company's [NYSE:F] Mustang Boss 429. This week's visitor is a freshly-restored 1969 Boss 429 recently completed by Marcus Anghel's Anghel Restorations in Scottsdale, Arizona, one of the epicenters of the muscle car world. In the video, Jay learns all about the flashy 'Stang's restoration and the history of this iconic muscle car. DON'T MISS: Ford Flathead V-8 rebuild timelapse video is...
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2016 24 Hours of Le Mans: Wins for Porsche, Ford overshadowed by heartbreak for ToyotaIt was the cruelest of endings on Sunday at the 2016 24 Hours of Le Mans, with car trouble costing Toyota the overall win in the closing minutes. Heavy rain prior to the race led to some flooding and saw the safety car on the track for almost the entire first hour. Once the race was on, Toyota led...
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2017 Ford GT in production guise surprises at Le MansThere’s an assortment of cars racing around the Circuit de la Sarthe in this weekend’s 2016 24 Hours of Le Mans, which at the time of writing is led by Toyota and one of its TS050 Hybrid LMP1s, but one car in particular is creating plenty of excitement off the track. Ford Motor Company...
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Ford Flathead V-8 rebuild timelapse video is mesmerizingOur friends at Hagerty Insurance spent six grueling days rebuilding a Ford Motor Company [NYSE:F] Flathead V-8 that they bought at the Hershey Swap Meet last year. Fortunately for us, they've condensed this epic project down into about six and a half minutes in this highly-entertaining video. You...
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Lego Ford GT on display at Le MansFord thinks it has all the pieces together to dominate the 24 Hours of Le Mans this year, but the automaker's racing car isn't quite put together the same way as the 4,000-piece Lego model it is displaying on the sidelines of the grueling race in France. Rendered in 1/3 scale, the Lego version of...
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Ford Bronco restoration service launchesYou may not be able to buy a new 1960s Ford Bronco, but a St. Louis-area firm is offering you the next best—and maybe better—thing. As originally reported by The Detroit News, Seth Burgett's new Gateway Bronco offers well-heeled shoppers the opportunity to order up a resto-modded 1960s...
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Ford Motor Company [NYSE:F] Performance has released the fourth and fifth installments in a series of videos on the development of the revived Ford GT. Part four details the process that Ford and Chip Ganassi Racing used to pick the drivers and part five delves into the racing results along the way to Ford's long-awaited return to the 24 Hours of Le Mans. Ford worked with the Canadian firm Multimatic Motorsports to develop the reborn GT for the street and the track. Ford decided to build the car with the goal of competing in the 2016 24 Hours of Le Mans, 50 years after the GT40 won the race...
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Ford, Porsche secure pole for 2016 24 Hours of Le MansThis is the moment Blue Oval fans around the world have been waiting years for: Ford Motor Company’s [NYSE:F] imminent return to the 24 Hours of Le Mans. And the American automaker is off to a solid start for this weekend’s race, the highlight of the 2016 World Endurance Championship...
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British police suit up with Ford Mustang GTsIt might be as American as apple pie, but the Ford Motor Company [NYSE:F] Mustang looks surprisingly correct swathed in the distinctive neon Battenburg paint scheme of the British police. Ford's pony car is being "assessed" by police forces in the United Kingdom as a potential patrol car. British...
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Transformers 5's Barricade revealed as Ford Mustang cop carDirector Michael Bay has revealed a new vehicle mode for one of the giant robots in the fifth Transformers movie currently under filming, Transformers: The Last Knight. The vehicle mode is for the Decepticon Barricade who in previous movies was represented by a fifth-generation Ford Motor Company...
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Ford ups Fusion V6 Sport's torque to 380 pound-feetFord Motor Company [NYSF: F] has raised the bar for its new Fusion V6 Sport. Instead of the 350 pound-feet of torque the automaker initially said its 2.7-liter V-6 would produce, the Blue Oval now says to expect a staggering 380 lb-ft when it is run on 93 octane fuel. The horsepower projection...
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2018 Ford Fiesta 5-Door spy shotsFord Motor Company [NYSE:F] is working on a new generation of its Fiesta subcompact, as evidenced by an early prototype spotted testing in Europe. Engineers are testing the prototype alongside an earlier mule that uses the makeshift exterior of the current Fiesta, highlighting the differences...
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