Mustang vs Charger through the streets of San Francisco, 2012 style 2
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If you haven't checked out Alcatraz yet, you might want to start with the season…
If you haven't checked out Alcatraz yet, you might want to start with the season finale tonight when they recreate the legendary Bullitt chase sequence through the streets of San Francisco.
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Legendary San Francisco Chase Sequence Reimagined on 'Alcatraz' Two-Hour Season Finale Tonight on FOX. Iconic 1968 Ford Mustang film chase is re-created for season finale of “Alcatraz” on FOX….
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The old Crown Vics have finally rolled off into the cop car sunset 2
This week my friend +Alex Nunez got a chance to drive its successors, the new 2013 Ford Police Interceptors in sedan and utility form and he was impressed.
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Drove the new Ford Police Interceptors for +ConsumerSearch this week. They are very, very good.
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Driving the 2013 Ford Police Interceptors
When it retired the venerated Panther rear-wheel drive platform last year, Ford lost more than the beloved Lincoln Town Car. Panther underpinned the Ford Crown Victoria, which, while discontinued for …
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The next time a kid asks you what use all of that algebra and geometry has in the…
The next time a kid asks you what use all of that algebra and geometry has in the real world, just point them at this new video from +Ford Motor Company. No modern car could work without a hell of a lot of math.
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I would have loved to have seen this during its heyday
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The Ford Rotunda – a view from our archives
From 1936 to 1962, the gear-shaped Ford Rotunda attracted visitors from around the world. It was the fifth most popular tourist destination in the United States in the 1950s.
+Ford Motor Company originally built the Rotunda, designed by Albert Kahn, for the 1933 Chicago World’s Fair, known as the Century of Progress Exposition, which opened in May of 1933 and attracted more than 40 million visitors over its two-year run. One of the major attractions at the fair was Ford's Rotunda, which was disassembled after the fair and brought back to Dearborn, where it was reconstructed using more permanent materials. Designed to be the showcase of the auto industry, the Ford Rotunda was opened to the public on May 14, 1936.
In 1960, the Rotunda ranked behind only Niagara Falls, the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, the Smithsonian Institution and the Lincoln Memorial as a national tourist destination. It was more popular than Yellowstone, Mount Vernon, the Washington Monument and the Statue of Liberty.
You can learn more about the Rotunda at http://automotivemileposts.com/autobrevity/fordrotunda.html
Ford Rotunda Building. 1956.
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Two of the top engineers in the US auto industry will both be retiring on April 1….
Two of the top engineers in the US auto industry will both be retiring on April 1. Ford announced this morning that group vice president for global product development Derrick Kuzak will be leaving after 34 years with the company. While CEO Alan Mulally has received much of the public credit for turning around Ford in the last five years, in the auto industry a plan is only as good as the products that roll off the assembly line.
Kuzak is a soft spoken engineer that doesn't have the flash of Bob Lutz but he certainly has the product development chops and understands where the investment needs to go create best in class vehicles. Having spent a number of years at Ford of Europe he was familiar with the products there and what the market was looking for and when Mulally brought him back to Dearborn to lead the ONE Ford effort, he knew exactly what to do. He assembled a great team and like Steve Jobs at Apple he saw what needed to be cut and what should go forward. Hopefully the team he assembled will continue to execute the plan in the coming years.
Just a couple of weeks earlier, General Motors announced that chief technical officer Tom Stephens is also leaving. Like Kuzak, Stephens wasn't typically the public facing voice of GM, but he spent his entire 43 year career in the engineering ranks at GM. After Lutz retired in 2009, Stephens succeeded him as vice chairman responsible for global product development before moving into the new role of CTO a year ago.
Both men helped lead their teams through tumultuous times in the industry and they will be missed. Let's hope their successors have the same kind of vision about where to go in the next decade.
Check out Kuzak talking about global product development and the new 2013 Ford Fusion in the video.
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Anybody that knows me, is well aware of my fondness for station wagons 3
I'm a car guy and I personally have no use for SUVs or crossovers, but there are many times when extra cargo space is welcome. A station wagon offers the size and driving dynamics of its sedan siblings while typically offering more useful volume than a similarly sized SUV. Unfortunately most Americans don't seem to grasp the appeal of wagons which means we'll probably never see a Ford Fusion wagon here.
Then again, when the Fiesta was in the planning stages, America was originally only going to get the sedan and the last generation Focus was only available with a trunk. Both of those are now sold as hatchbacks with nearly half of all takers opting for the larger rear opening. Let's hope Ford product planners take that to heart. I'll take a Fusion wagon with the 1.6-liter Ecoboost and a 6-speed stick please!
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Now that the 2013 Ford Fusion's sheetmetal has been exposed, one of our illustrators has grafted cargo space onto the back to create a wagon. And a good-looking one at that. Since the new Fusion w…
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+Ford Motor Company user experience engineer Joe Rork demonstrates the MyFord Mobile…
+Ford Motor Company user experience engineer Joe Rork demonstrates the MyFord Mobile app for +Android Central. The app runs on iOS and +Android and lets drivers of Ford's new plug-in vehicles, the Focus Electric, C-Max Energi and Fusion Energi http://fordfusionstory.com/ interact with their cars remotely. The app lets drivers check and manage charging, find charge stations, provide coaching on how to get more electric driving range, find the most efficient route to a destination and much more.
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Josh Topolsky editor in chief of The Verge is a very insightful interviewer and he… 1
Josh Topolsky editor in chief of The Verge is a very insightful interviewer and he had an interesting chat the other day with Ford CEO Alan Mulally and CTO Paul Mascarenas while they were at CES. They discuss mobile technology, connectivity and powertrain choice.
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Ford CEO Alan Mulally and CTO Paul Mascarenas at CES 2012: The Verge interview
We just had an opportunity a few minutes ago to catch up with Alan Mulally and Paul Mascarenas, CEO and CTO of Ford, who are once again in Vegas to show off some of Detroit's finest steel at CES. In…..
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The old Chinese proverb/curse about living in interesting times has certainly played…
The old Chinese proverb/curse about living in interesting times has certainly played itself out here in Detroit over the last several years with the emphasis on the curse side.
Thankfully, we're seeing light in the tunnel these days and things are looking up from a product perspective. With the official opening of the 2012 Detroit Auto Show less than 48 hours away things are looking very interesting again in a really good way.
Unofficially, Cadillac will kick off the festivities on Sunday night with a reveal of the new ATS sports sedan that will be streamed live http://www.livestream.com/badertv
On Monday morning the focus shifts across town to Ford when it reveals the all-new Fusion. Check that out here at http://FordFusionStory.com.
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