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Is Los Angeles ready to rethink the car?

by Tamara Warren

When people say Americans won’t give up their cars, Los Angeles is a case study on automotive saturation. Car fever took off during the post World War II era economic boom, and the sprawling city’s far reaching tentacle of freeways make the...

How an auto show about the future will deal with Trump

by Tamara Warren

Automobility LA, once billed as the Los Angeles Auto Show press days, kicks off this week at the Los Angeles Convention Center. This year the auto show has rebranded itself as all about the future — but what kind of future that will be after the...

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The wee little EcoSport is Ford’s new small SUV

by Jordan Golson

But you can’t buy one for more than a year

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Ford design chief Moray Callum is preparing for a driverless society

by Tamara Warren

Ford design chief Moray Callum imagines a future in which the car could be smarter than the driver.

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Self-driving car makers don't sound super excited to share data with the federal government

by Andrew J . Hawkins

Today, the federal government released major new guidelines for self-driving cars. But for anyone waiting for the reaction of big companies like Google and Uber, don’t hold your breath. The chief lobbyist for those companies just convened a press...

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Behind the wheel of Uber's new self-driving car, which hits the road today

by Andrew J . Hawkins

On Monday, I found myself behind the wheel of a Ford Fusion driving down a Pittsburgh street lined with gorgeous Romanesque brick factories. The sky was a cloudless blue, the Allegheny River sparkled seductively through the trees, and I was able...

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We took a ride in Ford's self-driving car

by Tamara Warren

Detroit and its suburbs are designed for driving fast. It’s a metropolitan area connected by high-speed freeways and sprawling mile roads, and was purposely designed without a public transportation system to support its predominant export — the...

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Ford is getting into buses and bike-sharing, because cars aren’t cutting it anymore

by Andrew J . Hawkins

Ford, purveyors of Built Ford Tough Ford trucks, announced today it was doing more things designed to appeal to people who aren’t interested in owning cars (or Built Ford Tough Ford trucks, for that matter). The company is acquiring Chariot, a...

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Ford will build an autonomous car without a steering wheel or pedals by 2021

by Jordan Golson

Ford plans to build a fully autonomous vehicle without a steering wheel or pedals by 2021, the company announced today. The vehicle will be aimed at ride-hailing and ride-sharing fleets. To get there, Ford is working with a number of startups, i...

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For real, Ford has revolutionized the cupholder

by Jordan Golson

There are a lot of places you might expect Ford to innovate and improve in its Super Duty pickup truck. Things like increasing the towing capacity or torque, or stuffing the thing full of cameras to make backing up easier. Forget all that. The...

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You can press the Baja button in the 2017 Ford Raptor to make it eat sand

by Jordan Golson

Ford is putting something called Baja Mode into its 2017 F-150 Raptor pickup truck. Think of it as Tesla’s Ludicrous Mode, but for off-road shenanigans. It’s named in honor of the legendary Baja 1000 desert race where Ford has tested its pickups...

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This throwback Ford GT paint job is drop-dead gorgeous

by Jordan Golson

Thanks to a new throwback livery, Ford has taken the GT, perhaps the sickest car the company has ever made, and made it even better. It's called the Ford GT '66 Heritage Edition and it's a limited edition color scheme for the new Ford GT supercar...

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Ford dealership steals art from indie game Firewatch

by Nick Statt

A Ford dealership in Quincy, MA spent all day being bombarded with inquiries from video game journalists after blatantly ripping off art from indie game Firewatch. The title, developed by San Francisco-based studio Campo Santo, is set in the...

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Literally zero people have signed up for Credit Link, Ford's private car-share program

by Chris Ziegler

In April, Ford launched its Credit Link program as a pilot in Austin, which allows up to six people to share a single vehicle using an app to manage payments and availability — basically, a private Zipcar for you and a few friends. Sounds useful...

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Former Ford GT engineer defects to Karma to make electric cars

by Tamara Warren

Former Ford engineer Kip Ewing is among the latest auto industry veterans to join Karma Automotive, the upstart electric car company built on the ashes of Fisker. The company is opening a new Troy, Michigan engineering center, an outpost of the...

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Meet the self-driving car industry’s most important lobbyist

by Andrew J . Hawkins

On Tuesday, the self-driving car industry introduced itself to the world. Five companies —€” Ford, Google, Uber, Lyft, and Volvo —€” announced the formation of the Self-Driving Coalition for Safer Streets, a lobbying and advocacy group. The...

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Google, Ford, and Uber just created a giant lobbying group for self-driving cars

by Andrew J . Hawkins

A who's-who of carmakers, technology companies, and ride-sharing startups are joining forces to pressure the federal government on the issue of self-driving cars. Ford, Google, Uber, Lyft, and Volvo announced Tuesday the formation of the...

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The Ford Raptor will be the first full-size American pickup in China

by Jordan Golson

Ford is bringing its F-150 pickup to China, the first full-size American pickup to be officially available in the country. But it's not bringing just any F-150: it's bringing the 400-plus horsepower off-road racing F-150 Raptor. Moving more than...

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Ford paid a huge premium to own one of the first Tesla Model Xs

by Chris Ziegler

Ford paid nearly $200,000 — well over MSRP — to own one of the first Tesla Model X CUVs to roll off the line, according to a report from Bloomberg. It's common practice for automakers to buy competitors' vehicles in order to drive them, measure...

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You can now apply to buy the incredible Ford GT, but you better be interesting

by Chris Ziegler

Ford just opened up its online application for buying one of the company's incredibly beautiful GT supercars starting later this year, and you can't just be some rando off the street. Well, you can — but considering that the company has only...

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Now you can lease a Ford with all your friends, if you’re in Austin

by Jordan Golson

Ford has launched the lease-sharing program it announced earlier this year, starting with three dealerships in Austin, Texas. It's called Ford Credit Link and it's sort of similar to a friends and family plan from a cellular carrier, but for...

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Uber poaches a top Ford engineer to help build self-driving cars

by Andrew J . Hawkins

Add Ford to the list of companies that are being pillaged by Uber in its quest to excel in the hyper-competitive world of self-driving cars. Sherif Marakby, director of global electronics and engineering at Ford, is joining Uber as vice president...

Meet the new Ford, a Silicon Valley software company

by Chris Ziegler and Nilay Patel

For a guy running a car business, Mark Fields sure doesn’t mind talking about putting fewer cars on the road. Fields is the charismatic CEO of Ford Motor Company, an honest-to-goodness slice of industrial Americana and an institution of the...

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The Ford Shelby GT-H is a rental car that knows how to kick ass

by Chris Ziegler

Ahead of this week's New York International Auto Show, Ford, Shelby, and Hertz have announced the Mustang Shelby GT-H, basically a souped-up Mustang GT — complete with the 5-liter V-8 — that you can rent just like you would any other rental car....

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Ford stuffed the new Super Duty pickup full of cameras to make backing a trailer easier

by Jordan Golson

Ford’s new 2017 Super Duty (the big F-250 and F-350 pickups) includes something called Trailer Reverse Guidance, an interesting new software and hardware setup that uses a whole bunch of cameras and some clever software to make backing a trailer a...

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Ford is spinning off its highest-tech projects into a subsidiary

by Chris Ziegler

Ford is spinning off some of its most interesting work into a wholly owned subsidiary that the company says "will be designed to compete like a startup." The subsidiary, called Ford Smart Mobility LLC, will be led by current Ford board member Jim...

Testing cars is so physically punishing on humans, Ford is licensing automakers a robotic replacement

by Chris Ziegler

When humans can't hack it, it's time to call in the robots. Ford has announced today that it's working with ASI, a Utah-based firm that specializes in vehicle automation, to sell "robotic testing kits" that help automakers endurance test new...

Stanford made a self-drifting electric DeLorean named Marty

by Lauren Goode

Last night, a group of Stanford researchers unveiled the university's latest self-driving vehicle, only at first glance this one looked more retro than the autonomous car of the future. The new prototype is a DeLorean DMC-12 with a power steering...

It's official: for police, the Ford Taurus and Explorer are the new Crown Vic

by Chris Ziegler

Ford announced this morning that its Police Interceptor lineup, which includes tricked-out versions of the Taurus and Explorer, has hit 61 percent US market share. That's up from 55 percent in 2014, and just under 40 percent in 2012. Other popular...

Ford’s new Focus RS is perfect for people who are bad at driving stick

by Chris Ziegler

Hot-hatch enthusiasts are basically foaming at the mouth for Ford's latest Focus RS — and with 350 horsepower on tap, all-wheel drive, and a dedicated drift mode, they very well should be. But this caught my eye: In a new press release today, Ford...

Ford launches smartwatch apps for its electric and plug-in hybrid cars

by Chris Ziegler

A number of automakers have shown smartwatch apps in the past year — some have even launched them — and now Ford is joining the party with Apple Watch and Android Wear apps of its own. The update for MyFord Mobile on Android and iOS adds the watch...

Ford's spider screen will help filter the screams of damsels

by Thomas Ricker

What follows is an actual headline from a "Big Three" automative company: LOOK OUT! HERE COME THE SPIDERMEN: FORD ENGINEERS USE ARACHNID LEARNINGS TO DEVELOP INNOVATIVE SCREEN TO KEEP CREEPY CRAWLERS OUT And here's the accompanying graphic: ...

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