Archive for June, 2008

Ford Truck Plants Retooling to Meet Demands

Tuesday, June 24, 2008 5:05 No Comments

In an effort to stay current with the demands and needs of its customer base, the Ford Motor Company is retooling some of its truck plants. Instead of building Ford trucks, some of the current factories are switching over to build Ford cars.
The announcement comes just a couple weeks after the national average price for [...]

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More about Jay Klehfoth and the Model T Celebration

Tuesday, June 24, 2008 5:05 No Comments

Yesterday, we learned about Jay Klehfoth, a man who loves his four (yes, count them) Model Ts. We also mentioned the upcoming celebration on July 20 that focuses on these immortalized Ford cars. Here is some more information about that celebration and a little more about Klehfoth himself.
The Model T celebration is a week-long event [...]

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Ford Increases Hybrid Battery Production

Monday, June 23, 2008 5:05 No Comments

Would you ever believe that an SUV can get 120 miles per gallon? If not, keep reading because that’s exactly what the Ford Motor Company is working on.
The actual company manufacturing the new and more efficient hybrid batteries – Johnson Controls-Saft – is now sharing $30 million from the federal government to develop these products. [...]

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Model T Collector Enjoys Life

Monday, June 23, 2008 5:05 No Comments

There aren’t too many people around that own one of the original Model T Ford cars that made the automaker famous. There are even fewer people that own FOUR Model T cars. But Jay Klehfoth is one of those rare people.
Although he was raised in a General Motors family, Klehfoth has enjoyed the Model T [...]

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New Gadget Lets You Monitor Fuel Usage in Real Time

Friday, June 20, 2008 5:05 No Comments

Everybody’s talking about ways to save gas nowadays. I can’t even get through a week of blog posts without mentioning gas prices or fuel economy at least three times because that’s literally 90 percent of the automobile-related stories going around. But this post is about a new item you can use to monitor your fuel [...]

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New Mustangs Arrive at Dealerships

Friday, June 20, 2008 5:05 No Comments

At the New York Auto Show, the Ford Motor Company unveiled a new edition of the Mustang – the Dan Gurney Signature Edition Saleen Mustang. The automaker, in conjunction with Saleen Automotive and automotive legend Dan Gurney, helped create this new line of Mustangs. Some say it’s the most impressive yet.
Only 300 of these Mustangs [...]

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More about the Lincoln Mark LT

Thursday, June 19, 2008 5:05 No Comments

After seeing and researching the Lincoln Mark LT, one of the most beautiful Ford trucks I’ve ever seen, I just had to write more about it. The outside is nice or, as Borat would say, “Very nice!” But the inside is even better. I wrote a little bit about it earlier this week, but here [...]

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Mustang Is Popular Choice among Teens

Thursday, June 19, 2008 5:05 No Comments

As if the Mustang, possibly one of the most popular and recognized Ford cars of all time, needed any more hype than it already has. Now, a new study reports that teens prefer the Ford Mustang when it comes time for them to choose their first car.
One teen – Dan Vanderlip, Jr. – fell in [...]

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Ford Reduces Period between Styling Changes

Wednesday, June 18, 2008 5:05 No Comments

You probably didn’t know this, but the Ford Motor Company typically waits about five years before making any major styling changes to its vehicles. But according to Peter Horbury, Ford’s head of design in North America, that’s about to change.
In a plan to reduce the necessity for huge incentives to move older Ford cars from [...]

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Are High Gas Prices Really Good for Us?

Wednesday, June 18, 2008 5:05 No Comments

A recent Op-Ed piece in The New York Times said that high gas prices are good for the nation. The writer – Thomas L. Friedman – basically said that Americans have been spoiled for too long and we should keep gas prices high. Apparently, we need to be taught a lesson if you ask Mr. [...]

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