Steven Armstrong, chief operating officer of Volvo Cars, will leave the Swedish automaker to join former employer Ford Motor Co. as part of a management reshuffle under new CEO Stefan Jacoby.
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Steven Armstrong, chief operating officer of Volvo Cars, will leave the Swedish automaker to join former employer Ford Motor Co. as part of a management reshuffle under new Volvo CEO Stefan Jacoby. Armstrong, 46, will return to Ford of Europe.
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Ford plans to dramatically reduce the number of Lincoln dealerships as part of a major overhaul of the lagging brand, with the bulk of the cuts coming from 500 stores in the nation's top 130 markets.
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Ford Motor Co. is developing a flagship, large sedan that harkens back to the Continental as part of its effort to overhaul the lagging Lincoln brand, two dealers briefed on the plans said on Monday.
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Ford Motor Co. is turning to viral media for the pre-launch of the 2012 Focus, due in U.S. showrooms next March.
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Special edition run-out model signals beginning of end of current Focus.
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Ford India has reported a 237% sales jump in the first half the current fiscal year which ended in September.
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Ford is currently in the lead in terms of total sales for 2010, and the month of September helped them extend that lead.
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Buying an off-road vehicle is a pretty marginal move. You want that weekend warrior to fulfill your desire to hit the trails or the sand dunes, but you also want it to be your daily driver. After all, isn't it fun to drive around town in a mud-soaked truck, flaunting your recent off-road adventure?
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LIVONIA, Mich. - Jack Roush is a man who knows how to coax horsepower from an engine. ROUSH® has become an automotive powerhouse based on this simple premise, and he couldn't wait to get his hands, and his engineering team, on the new Ford 5.0L engine. The end result, and the car fans of the ROUSH Mustang have been waiting for, is the 2011 ROUSH 5XR(tm) Mustang with "more power" under the hood thanks to the factory-installed ROUSHcharger.
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Bought largely for flexibility, value and sensibility, the last-generation Hyundai Tucson was available to Canadian shoppers from 2005 to 2009 before its most recent update for the 2010 model year. Competing with the likes of the Honda CR-V, Toyota RAV4 and Ford Escape, Tucson was available with numerous drivetrain configurations, a competitive warranty and, perhaps most importantly, very attractive pricing.
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EXECUTIVE EDITOR--AUTOWEEK.COM BOB GRITZINGER: I thought the Fusion should have been voted 2006 North American Car of the Year (it lost to Honda Civic by 40 points that year), and the car has only improved since then. This 2.5-liter I4 (vs.
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Ford Motor Co. posted a 40 percent increase in U.S. sales last month and Chrysler Group soared 61 percent as the industry showed signs of rebounding from an August slump.
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Ford Motor Co. posted a 40 percent increase in September U.S. sales and Chrysler Group soared 61 percent as the industry showed signs of rebounding from an August decline. General Motors Co.
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Ford will likely exceed its annual goal to spend 10 percent of its U.S. purchasing budget on minority- and women-owned supplier companies, the automaker said. Though Ford said it maintained its 10 percent goal in 2009 by purchasing $2.
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Ford's new Focus, on show in Paris, is "lower and sleeker" than the outgoing model "which won't suit everyone", Ford of Britain boss Nigel Sharp said.
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Ford of Europe sales and marketing boss Ingvar Sviggum has become a lot more outspoken this year.
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Ford's new Fiesta, the first subcompact it has made in North America since the Pinto in 1980, is selling at higher prices than its Focus compact and competing offerings from Japanese automakers.
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