Ford News

Top Gear , the 2015 Ford Focus RS will be powered by a 2.3-liter turbocharged I-4, which it'll share with the long-rumored 2015 Ford Mustang SVO.

Ford has opened the order books in Europe for its new Focus 1.0-litre EcoBoost that is offered in two guises with 100PS and 125PS .

If you drive your car hard, broken parts are inevitable. If you go to the track regularly or drive your car in anger, you will eventually find the weak link in your combination.

You'll hear truth and fiction about the domestic auto industry this election season.

A man checks out a Chevy Camaro during the 2012 Chicago Auto Show media preview at McCormick Place Wednesday, Feb.

John Force raced to his 134th career Funny Car victory Sunday at the O'Reilly Auto Parts NHRA Winternationals at the Auto Club Raceway at Pomona.

Big saloon cars are being driven off the nation's driveways in favour of family-friendly people-carriers and runarounds.

Scenes from the 8th Annual Cars on Fifth in Naples, Saturday February 11, 2012. Over 450 exotic, classic, muscle and sports cars were on display along 5th Avenue from Route 41 to 3rd Street to give the 30,000 plus car enthusiasts a day to remember.

Robbie Roberson Ford is pleased to announce the addition of several social networking features to enhance customer interaction with their Waycross Georgia Ford dealership.

A DeSoto automobile is part of the revamped "Driving in America" exhibit at the Henry Ford museum in Dearborn, Mich.

This week I was back behind the wheel of the Korean entry-level car at the launch of the new-generation three-door hatch and four-door sedan in the Hunter Valley in NSW, the same area where Kia engineers spent months re-tuning the car for Australian conditions.

These days, most pickup manufacturers make bold claims that their vehicles are very car-like to sit in and drive because they know that many customers don't actually treat them purely as workhorses.

The new 2013 Ford Shelby GT500 convertible makes its debut as the celebratory vehicle of the 20th anniversary of Ford's Special Vehicle Team .

Color us crazy, but some of us at Drive On thought a 155-mph, 650-horsepower Ford Shelby GT500 convertible would be among everybody's favorite cars at the Chicago Auto Show, which now is open to actual people after auto writers got their special day and were sent packing.

Ford's turnaround is already one for the business history books. But in some ways, the good part is just beginning -- though challenges remain.

A 26-year-old man was charged Feb. 4 with attempting to take 3.3 pounds of marijuana through the U.S. Highway 70 Border Patrol checkpoint, Otero County Sheriff Benny House said.

Ford will give new software to about 250,000 owners of vehicles with the often-maligned 'MyFord Touch' dashboard technology in about two months to make the system easier -- and less distracting -- to use. The company's new 2013 models will come with upgraded MyFord Touch, which replaces most knobs and buttons for climate, navigation and entertainment with a touch-screen. The system has both attracted buyers to Ford's brand and hurt it in some owners' eyes, says the independent market research firm J.D. Power and Associates. Ford held customer clinics, and employees have been testing the upgraded system so it's a 'high-quality experience,' Ford spokesman Alan Hall says. MyFord Touch is now available on 20 % of Ford models, including the Explorer and Focus, and will be on 70 % of new models by the end of this year. Ford dropped from fifth to 23rd in J.D. Power's quality survey last summer, in large part because of this technology. The study looks at problems owners report in the first 90 days of ownership. MyFord Touch 'was a significant issue. Most of their declines from the previous year could be attributed to it,' says David Sargent, J.D. Power's global vehicle research vice president. 'Other than that, their quality was going fairly well.' Many complaints to J.D. Power centered on the system's tendency to freeze, which the company called 'a hard defect,' and its slowness. Complicated controls could also be distracting for those 'operating the system when trying to drive a vehicle,' Sargent says. The upcoming fix won't come in time to boost Ford's quality rankings in the June Power initial quality report, which only covers vehicles sold through this month. While Ford has made running improvements to the systems, Sargent says those could be offset by the increased number of models sold with MyFord Touch. It can take up to 45 minutes to teach customers the MyFord Touch system, says Gary Cohen, vice president at Jerry's Ford in Annandale, Va. But he says it's 'a great system once you set up your profile.' Consumer Reports said in January 2011 that it couldn't recommend the Ford Edge or Lincoln MKX because of MyFord Touch. Consumer Reports' automobile testing director David Champion says newer versions haven't frozen and are easier to use but still are not 'intuitive' enough. 'I think they understand where their issues are,' Champion says. 'It's just whether their arrogance gets in the way of them actually fixing it. '

Ford Motor Co. and Nissan Motor Co. are issuing new recalls for vehicles that may not comply with federal safety standards.

Bob Tasca raced to the provisional No. 1 qualifying position in Funny Car on Friday in the season-opening NHRA Winternationals at Auto Club Raceway.

Gloria Lamar sees signs that the nation's economy has taken a turn for the better.