Over the past few decades, the most obvious choice for driving when searching for a pickup truck has been the Ford F-150. This truck has been the best-selling model and it has continued to get better every year. The innovation that makes the F-150 stay on top is what we tend to lean toward for the work that needs to get done, even if that work includes the need to make sure a truck can pull the boat or trailer full of fun goodies to the lake where we want to spend the weekend playing in the sun.
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A New Transmission from Collaboration
General Motors and Ford got together and created a new ten-speed rear-drive transmission that’s an amazing feat of engineering and automotive technology. Ford was the leader in the creation of this transmission and the pair are putting this new drivetrain into vehicles from both brands for the future. General Motors will be the lead on the new front-drive transmission, which will be a nine-speed automatic. What you need to know about this new collaboration will make you want to pick up a great new vehicle with this awesome transmission in place after you learn more about it.
Bold Steps for Ford
Ford CEO Mark Fields recently announced the goal of Ford to have fully autonomous vehicles on the road as part of a ride sharing program by 2021. This is one of the most aggressive marks set yet but Ford is confident they will be able to reach this goal. In an emotionally exuberant press conference, part of which is shared in the video below, Fields says that by 2021 we will have Ford vehicles with no steering wheel, no pedals and no need for a driver to take over the controls of the vehicle.
Saving You More Fuel
Let me put this one together for you and you will see just how much this makes perfect sense. Why don’t we take the most popular truck on the market today and make it as efficient as possible while maintaining the power and strength of the vehicle? That seems to have been the goal for the new Ford F-150 lineup. First Ford introduced us to the F-150 with the aluminum body and high strength steel in the build all in an effort to save weight. This weight savings was significant enough that Ford felt comfortable using smaller engines to achieve similar power numbers to the larger engines which resulted in immediate fuel savings for those of us driving the most popular trucks on the road today.
Bronco Facts to Get Us Ready
With the announcement that Ford will bring back the Bronco before the decade is out and the fact that this can only cause a great deal of excitement this is the perfect time to look back at the first generation of the Bronco to make it difficult to argue against this awesome little SUV coming back.
First of all, the Bronco was built to be a competitor for the Jeep CJ-5 and the International Harvester Scout. When it arrived the Bronco offers the advantage of coil springs in the front suspension which helped to improve performance on and off the road. Another advantage to start with was the optional V8 engine which was not present on the other two competitors.
The Top of the Focus Platform; The Titanium Hatchback Manual
In order to even talk about this model of the Ford Focus you first need to know that the Titanium is what Ford calls its top of the line. Most models that carry the Titanium name from Ford are very close in every aspect to luxury models. In addition to this, the knowledge that EcoBoost from Ford means a vehicle that enjoys turbocharging from the engine. The Focus Titanium is a hot hatch that is hot because it’s nearly a luxury model that enjoys the great performance of a turbocharged engine to give you more power at a fuel sipping number.
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The Sporty Ford Focus ST is Exciting and Interesting
The Ford Focus ST is the sporty hatchback version of the Focus that gives us an exciting drive. With a sport tuned suspension and higher end engine the ST is attractive with a sport styling and a low roofline to be a hot hatch that looks like it should be a lot of fun to drive and can handle corners with quickness and agility that isn’t found in even some of the higher end sports cars. One of the most interesting parts of the ST is the slight bit of history of its tire story and what is offered.
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The 2015 Ford F-150 Lariat SuperCab is Still One Tough Truck
The slogan has been for many years that the Ford trucks are “built Ford tough” and with a steel construction and the fact the Fords were taking on the road and the worksites and performing perfectly there was never any doubt about the toughness of these trucks. The new models of the Ford trucks have changed from the steel construction to aluminum which begged the question of whether or not these new trucks would be just as Ford tough as the older ones that were built out of the most trusted tough metal ever used.
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2016 Ford Mustang: Year Two; Better than Ever
The “Sophomore Slump” which is used in sports to describe a reduction in production that takes place during an athlete’s second year in their sport certainly does not apply to the Mustang. Coming in with more vigor and pep than ever this second year run of this generation of the Mustang brings us a pony car that is fully ready to take on all competitors across the field. If you want a sports car that is great on gas but still gives you some oomph, the Mustang is the right choice with the turbocharged four-cylinder engine. Of course there is still the ever power hungry Shelby GT350 and GT350R that are great race inspired sports cars, ready to knock of the competition one by one.
Ford Car To Park Itself
Self driving vehicles, cars that can talk to each other, and all kinds of technological advancements are being made in vehicles today. There is lane change assist technology, back up camera’s, blind spot detection, and even the ability to connect our smartphones to our automobiles. Ford is forging into the frontier when it comes to technology. They are offering a vehicle that can literally park itself.