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Luxury models take center stage in China

12:01 am U.S. ET | April 14, 2014

A few months ago, industry analysts speculated that China's fast-growing luxury market soon would stagnate as the economy cooled and Communist Party leaders discouraged conspicuous consumption.... Read More »

Less reliance on fleet sales in March

12:01 am U.S. ET | April 14, 2014

Automakers continue to cut their reliance on U.S. fleet sales as car rental companies strategically reduce vehicle purchases.... Read More »

Ford honors the past, launches new pony for a shifting market

12:01 am U.S. ET | April 13, 2014

The golden shine from the Mustang's spectacular launch in 1964 has long since faded. But with a series of anniversary celebrations planned this week from coast to coast, Ford aims to shower at least some of the original pony car's magic dust on the redesigned 2015 model, the first Mustang crafted for global markets.... Read More »

RICHARD TRUETT

Mustang changed lives, inspired careers

12:01 am U.S. ET | April 13, 2014

Just like countless other kids around the world who were captivated by the original Mustang and decided they wanted to be mechanics, designers, engineers, race car drivers, etc., I knew I would have a future under the hood of cars.... Read More »

Hype, hipness, price propelled the Mustang to early success

12:01 am U.S. ET | April 12, 2014

Behind the record-breaking sales and cultural shockwave created by Ford Motor Co.'s original pony car was a massive advertising campaign with a scale and message that broke new ground for the era. Automotive News at the time called the Mustang's advertising bonanza "one of the largest promotional splurges in history."... Read More »

FATHER OF AN ICON

Lee Iacocca looks back at the 1964 sensation that was Ford Mustang

12:01 am U.S. ET | April 12, 2014

Success has many fathers but failure is an orphan, or so the saying goes. Though many names are associated with the Ford Mustang's extraordinary half-century run, the irrepressible Lee Iacocca sits at the top of that list. If Iacocca made the Mustang, the Mustang also made Iacocca.... Read More »

The pony car's first dream team

8:54 am U.S. ET | April 11, 2014

A look at the men who came together to envision, design, build and market one of the most successful cars in automotive history.... Read More »

How Ford's pony car survived a brush with death

12:01 am U.S. ET | April 11, 2014

A 1987 issue of AutoWeek magazine featured a shocking cover story that revealed Ford's plans to build the 1989 Mustang on a Mazda front-wheel-drive platform. Howls of protest eventually prompted Ford to reverse course. The Mazda-designed Mustang, code-named ST-16, would become the Ford Probe and join the Mustang in Ford showrooms.... Read More »

Ford F-150 probe closed by U.S. regulators without request for recall

10:28 am U.S. ET | April 11, 2014

Federal safety regulators said today they have closed an investigation into complaints of reduced power in Ford F-150 pickup trucks, stopping short of requesting a recall. The probe covered about 360,000 trucks.... Read More »

Carroll Shelby helped Ford build performance cred

12:01 am U.S. ET | April 11, 2014

Carroll Shelby roared through the world's automotive scene like a tornado, leaving marks as a racer, automaker, marketer and businessman. He is the only man to win Le Mans as a driver, team owner and manufacturer. The name Shelby is synonymous with performance, and no one did more to burnish Ford's performance cred.... Read More »

Ford debuts the Skyliner Transit concept vehicle

1:08 pm U.S. ET | April 11, 2014

Melvin Betancourt, design manager for Ford Motor, speaks before the 2015 Transit Skyliner concept van is unveiled at Galpin Auto Sports in California on Thursday. The Transit Skyliner features custom-designed throne seats that are movable and can be repositioned automatically, controlled by a smartphone or tablet, as well as a theater and bar. Photographer:... Read More »

Whereabouts of the first Mustang remain a mystery

8:32 am U.S. ET | April 11, 2014

Because precise production records were not kept at the time and the early cars were not built in sequential order, no one knows the serial number of the first Mustang built.... Read More »

Mustang made Galpin Motors a power player

8:32 am U.S. ET | April 11, 2014

In early 1964, Galpin Motors was a small dealership with a two-car showroom in San Fernando, Calif., northwest of Los Angeles. Then the Mustang thundered into the Ford lineup and nothing would be the same.... Read More »

Ford Mustang timeline

8:32 am U.S. ET | April 11, 2014

A look at the Mustang, from debut to the newest model... Read More »

Mustang's classic cues

8:32 am U.S. ET | April 11, 2014

Ford's Mustang has changed shapes many times in its 50-year gallop. For 2005, when the Mustang was rebuilt from the wheels up, nearly all of the car's signature styling cues from the 1960s and early '70s were updated. Through the years, every Mustang has had a long hood and a short decklid. The 2015 Mustang coming this fall further refines the car's DNA. Staff Reporter Richard Truett looks at the Mustang's iconic styling elements.... Read More »

ONE-TRICK PONIES

Rivals tried, but none matched the Mustang's sales in the '60s

12:01 am U.S. ET | April 11, 2014

The Mustang's runaway success after its April 1964 debut left most of Ford Motor Co.'s rivals scrambling to develop their own pony cars. Three years later, the Mustang had plenty of competition but no other sporty compact came close to matching the Mustang's sales in the 1960s.... Read More »

50 nifty things you may not know about the Mustang

9:07 am U.S. ET | April 11, 2014

A look back at a few factoids about the 50-year-old Mustang... Read More »

Ford moves Europe exec Cortesi to global corporate communications role

April 11, 2014 06:01 CET

Ford of Europe executive Elena Cortesi has been given a global role as the automaker's corporate communications manager.... Read More »

The pony car was all about personalization -- 'do your own thing'

12:01 am U.S. ET | April 11, 2014

Try to think about the Ford Mustang from a rational perspective, and its phenomenal early success just doesn't compute. The Mustang was a two-door, sporty car, the very definition of a niche product with limited appeal. It also was developed on a shoestring budget. But it roared out of the gates.... Read More »

Sperlich: Mustang 'was all about youth'

12:01 am U.S. ET | April 11, 2014

Among the Ford Mustang's fathers, Hal Sperlich is one of the most fascinating. Sperlich gets credit for being the product-planning genius behind the Ford Mustang and Chrysler's original minivan, the vehicles that made Lee Iacocca famous.... Read More »

Ford replaces Lincoln chief designer Wolff with luxury veteran

5:18 pm U.S. ET | April 10, 2014

Ford's Lincoln brand is moving forward under a $1 billion overhaul with a new design director at the helm after quietly replacing Max Wolff. Wolff, hired from GM four years ago, remains at Lincoln, in charge of exterior design of the brand's models, Ford said Thursday. David Woodhouse, who joined Ford in 1999 from GM to head Ford's former European luxury brands, is his successor.... Read More »

Ford F-150 engineer says some ideas were too much to execute

3:56 pm U.S. ET | April 9, 2014

In Ford's five-year effort to strip weight from the 2015 F-150 pickup, some ideas were considered just too big of a stretch, chief engineer Pete Reyes said today. For example, engineers had considered using a front-frame crossmember -- which provides rigidity and lateral strength -- made of magnesium, an expensive metal that is lighter and stronger than either aluminum or steel.... Read More »

Ford unveils upscale S-Max concept with Vignale badge

April 9, 2014 13:19 CET

Ford has unveiled a concept previewing an upscale Vignale variant of its S-Max large minivan, the second vehicle to receive the trim line after the Mondeo sedan.... Read More »

Ford to show freshened Focus at New York show

12:01 am U.S. ET | April 9, 2014

Ford will show the freshened Focus sedan and the Focus Electric during the New York auto show press days next week.... Read More »

Ford recalls nearly 435,000 vehicles for rusting frame parts, faulty seats

6:00 pm U.S. ET | April 7, 2014

Ford is recalling 385,762 model-year 2001-2004 Escape SUVs due to rust that could cause the separation of the lower control arm from the subframe of the vehicle. In an unrelated recall, NHTSA announced that Ford is recalling 48,960 model-year 2013-2014 Ford Fusion, Lincoln MKZ, Ford Escape and C-Max vehicles to replace seatback frames that are not up to NHTSA standards.... Read More »

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