Ford

Launched in a converted factory in 1903, Ford Motor Company created a number of methods for large-scale manufacturing of cars using elaborately engineered moving assembly lines. One of the largest family-controlled companies in the world, the Ford Motor Company has been in continuous family control for over 100 years.

Those Furious Fords: 1986 Ford Taurus
Those Furious Fords: 1991 Ford Explorer
Ninth-Gen Ford F-Series Trucks - Are They The Best Of The Breed?

The 9th Gen of F-series Trucks. They would be an evolution of 7th and 8th generations more so than a completely new truck and many feel this is the best generation F-Series.

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Those Furious Fords: 1997 Ford F-150
Some 2025 Sales Considerations

As the sales have come in for 2025, all things considered they are damned good, perhaps worthy of some champagne-cork popping (or at the very least the opening of a screw-top bottle of some top-shelf jug wine).

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2025 Ford F-150 3.5L Powerboost Hybrid Platinum Video Review -- Platinum Equals Luxury

The 2025 Ford F-150 3.5L Powerboost Hybrid Platinum is one bougie pick-up truck.

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See More Photos Of The Ford Bronco RTR
TTAC At The 2026 Detroit Auto Show

The 2026 Detroit Auto Show, formerly known as the North American International Auto Show, was light on vehicle debuts this week -- but there was still plenty to talk about.

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QOTD: What Should Have Won Car Of The Year?

The North American Car and Truck of the Year were unveiled today at the 2026 Detroit Auto Show.

Did the voters get it right?

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Ford Employee Yells At Trump, Gets Flipped Off By POTUS, Reprimanded By Ford

We live in strange times, as evidenced by an incident that took place yesterday while President Donald Trump toured Ford's truck plant in Dearborn, Michigan.

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Here Are Your 2026 NACTOY Winners

DETROIT -- The North American Car and Truck of the Year (NACTOY) winners have been announced here at Huntington Place -- formerly Cobo Hall -- in Detroit.

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Ford Bronco RTR: Ready For The Desert Run

DETROIT -- Ford has yet another option for desert runners with the Ford Bronco RTR.

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QOTD: What Sport Truck Would You Like To See?

Ram isn't going to stuff a 6.4-liter Hemi in a single-cab 1500 and make it a new SRT sport truck.

Too bad,

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Detroit Debuts: 1993 Jeep Grand Cherokee
1965 Ford Mustang - The World's First Pony Car

The First Ford Mustang, Lee Iacocca gets a lot of credit for bringing the Mustang to market and while it may have been his vision the person most responsible for developing that vision into an actual car was Donald Frey.

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Junkyard Find: 1985 Ford Econoline with 4-on-the-floor manual

Buyers of Detroit full-size vans became increasingly unwilling to take manual transmissions as the 1960s became the 1970s, but new three-pedal big vans were available long after that. I found this ultra-rare manual-equipped E-150 in Colorado Springs last week.

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Recall Alert: 2022-2024 Ford Maverick Hybrid, 2020 Ford Escape Hybrid

Today we have a very small recall involving the Ford Maverick Hybrid and Ford Escape Hybrid.

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After 140,000 KM, Our Ford Supercharged LS430 Is No More

We fix a few small issues with the greatest luxury sedan ever built.

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Junkyard Find: 1976 Ford Elite

Sajeev Mehta no longer works here, but we still love him and that means I enjoy making his bitter tears flow with stories about discarded classic Ford Motor Company products. Here's one that currently resides at a boneyard in Denver, Colorado.

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Recall Alert: 2026 Ford Super Duty F-250 And F-350

We have another recall for you, this one involving 2026 Ford Super Duty F-250 and F-350 models.

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Jim Farley Forgot the Wisdom of “Pull”

“You might wonder why this platform and vehicle had to be electric. The choice enabled how it is built, and we also believe electric vehicles are by far the best product for the customers we are going after.

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Ford Scaling Back EV Plans, Taking $19.5 Billion Punch

Ford Motor Company is pulling back on its electric-vehicle plans in a move that will cost the company $19.5 billion.

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How The High Price Of Performance Cars Impacts Car Culture

Today's TTAC podcast will speak to the car enthusiast's heart.

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1986 Ford F-250 - History of Ford's 1st Diesel F-Series Truck From AutoMoments

When Ford and International Harvester got together, it was the beginning of a beautiful friendship.

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Drive Notes: 2024 Ford Mustang Mach-E GT Rally

We're doing another edition of Drive Notes -- a capsule review of a car myself or a staffer drove that doesn't quite need a full review.

Today it's a 2024 Ford Mustang Mach-E GT Rally -- and yes, it is a 2024 but I drove it deep into 2025. Sometimes cars stick around for a while, and it's still worth a write-up for used-car shoppers. Not to mention that sometimes models carry over virtually unchanged.

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Drive Notes: 2024 Ford Bronco Sport Freewheeling

Welcome to another edition of Drive Notes, which is where we provide a capsule review to a car that doesn't need the full-review treatment.

Up today -- a 2024 Ford Bronco Sport Freewheeling that I drove earlier this year. Yes, it's a 2024 -- sometimes they are in the fleet for a while. This one was obviously a limited-edition trim, but lightly-used ones are out there on the market.

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Used Car Of The Day: 1984 Toyota Celica Supra Boss 302

No, we're not drunk -- not right now, anyway. There really does exist, out the in the world, a 1984 Toyota Celica Supra Boss 302. Meaning someone plunked a 302 cubic-inch mill into a 1984 Toyota Celica Supra.

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Used Car Of The Day: 2002 Ford Focus SVT

Today we go hot hatch with this 2002 Ford Focus SVT.

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Ford Econoline -- It Changed how Vans Were Built

The 1961 Econoline Van and Ford Club Wagon and Cab over pickup when introduced were going to change the way everyone in the industry built a van.

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Report: Automakers Knew About Battery-Production Lead Poisoning

A couple of weeks ago we brought you this New York Times report about lead poisoning being caused by factories that produce batteries for automotive use.

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Used Car Of The Day: 1966 Ford Mustang

Today we serve you a 1966 Ford Mustang. Yes, we're going back to the '60s.

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Surprising Places to Find a Manual Transmission
1968 Ford Mustang: The Final Drive and it's Future

We take the 1968 Mustang coupe out for it's final drive of the season and reflect on the first year of ownership. I also clue you in on the plans for next season and what we are going to do over the the winter.

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Doors Off: Open-Air Cruisers
Ford Boss Jim Farley Tears Apart Tesla, Shocked By Findings

Ford CEO Jim Farley recently told a podcaster that he was shocked by his company found when it tore apart a Tesla Model 3 and some Chinese EVs recently.

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Eighth Generation Ford F-Series - The Refinement Of The Pickup Truck

The release of 8th Generation F-series had a lot of people at Ford nervous. The Ford F-series pickup became the bestselling vehicle in America in 1982 and it was a title that Ford wanted to hang onto.

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Used Car Of The Day: 2017 Ford Fusion

Today we have a heavily modified 2017 Ford Fusion Sport -- complete with racing stripes -- for your perusal.

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2025 Ford Expedition King Ranch Reviewed UPDATED

Friend of TTAC Connie Peters has just driven the 2025 Ford Expedition King Ranch. Her thoughts are below.

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Ford Earmarks $370 Million for Fresh Manufacturing - in India

The bleatings of current White House occupants telling American-based automakers to BUILD MOAR CARS HERE GOBBLESS notwithstanding, Ford is setting aside nearly half a billion dollars as part of initiative to reopen a plant in India it shuttered four years ago.

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The Ford Windstar - The History, Options, and Features

The Ford Windstar – It was developed as a direct competitor to Chrysler’s minivans and their dominance in the minivan segment.

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Recall Alert: Large Ford And Lincoln SUVs

We have another Ford recall. Again.

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QOTD: Should Ford Bring The Taurus Back?

A simple and self-explanatory one today -- should Ford bring the Taurus back?

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Will A 2026 Ford Taurus Grace Our Shores?

Ford is teasing the next 2026 Taurus for international markets.

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Ford To Add 1,000 Workers To Truck Production

Ford has plans with the F-150.

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Ford Recalls Nearly 1.5 Million More Vehicles

Ford has recalled another 1.5 million vehicles.

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After Ford, The American Aluminum Shortage Hits Stellantis

The fire that shut down the Novelis aluminum plant in Oswego, New York, continues to disrupt automakers across the industry. What started as a material supply shortage for Ford—the plant's largest client—has now spread to Stellantis, which paused production of the Jeep Grand Wagoneer at its Warren, Michigan, assembly plant.

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Recall Alert: 2025 Ford Bronco, 2025 Ford Ranger

Turns out there was more than one Ford recall today.

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Ford Offering Factory Drift Package For Mustang EcoBoost

Ford has revealed the hardware being baked into the 2026 RTR Package for the Mustang EcoBoost. Boiled down, buyers will be getting a factory drift package composed largely of components borrowed from meaner versions of the pony car. But there are also plenty of bits coming directly from RTR, several of which will be wholly unique to the vehicle in question.

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Ford Recalls Almost 625,000 Vehicles Over Camera And Seatbelt Problems

Ford has recalled almost 625,000 vehicles because of problems with rear-view camera displays and seatbelts.

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Report: Auto Tariffs Will Be Tamped Down After Heavy Lobbying From Detroit

The White House appears ready to extend tariff relief for the U.S. auto industry—the plan involves a five-year extension of a previously carved out provision allowing automakers to reduce the tariffs they pay on imported car parts.

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Ford Forced To Idle SUV Production To Protect F-150 Profits

Ford has temporarily halted production of the Expedition and its twin, the Lincoln Navigator, after a massive fire crippled a major aluminum supplier in upstate New York.

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Junkyard Find: 1976 Ford LTD 4-Door Pillared Hardtop

When I spot a Malaise Era product of the Ford Motor Company while making my junkyard rounds, I like to text photos of them to our friend Sajeev Mehta and get his bitter tears a-flowing. My favorite Denver-area yard now boasts two such cars from the year of America's Bicentennial: a Mercury Marquis and this Ford LTD, both 4-door pillared hardtops.

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Ford Changed Its Mind About Extending the EV Tax Credits

The federal EV tax credit ended at the end of September, but some automakers extended discount programs to compensate for the loss of the up to $7,500 incentive. Early on, Ford announced that it would be one of them, but the automaker is now backing away from that plan.

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Wayve System Aims To Mimic Humans As Industry Finds New AI Uses

On a rainy Monday in downtown Detroit a Ford Mustang Mach-E electric vehicle pulls away from the curb and dives into the work week traffic. There’s someone sitting behind the wheel but it’s strictly hands-off.

Dodging traffic, stopping for traffic lights, avoiding pedestrians and turning along a prescribed route the car just seems to "know” what to do.

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Farley: Ford Remains Committed to the Mustang's Future

The Ford Mustang has stuck around, despite most of its competition being discontinued and the fact that it has been sliding in sales over the last year. Ford CEO Jim Farley is unfazed by the data, however, saying that the automaker remains committed to the car’s future.

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Ford Has Built the Last Focus ST for Europe

The Ford Focus hasn’t been sold in North America for several years, but the car has remained a fixture in several other countries in the time since. That’s now coming to an end, at least for one popular variant of the car, as the automaker recently announced the end of production for the Focus ST, saying the final unit had rolled off the assembly line.

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Ford CEO Avoids Question About Locked ECUs, Mocks Daughter’s Boyfriend Instead

Jim Farley, CEO of the Ford Motor Company, was recently interviewed about automotive electrification, tariffs, competition from China, and how the industry is using technology to keep people from modifying their own cars. While the interview covered a lot of ground, it was loaded with the kind of non-answers CEOs are infamous for. But some of the responses he gave about locked ECUs and tuning were simultaneously enlightening and deeply troubling.

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The Ford Courier - Ford's MIGHTY Mini Pickup - The History, Features, & Options

The Ford Courier Pick-up. It really wasn’t a Ford at all.

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Report: The Hybrid Ford Mustang May Finally Become a Thing

Ford has teased a hybrid Mustang before, but it has been almost a decade since the automaker started talking about the car with no results. That could change, as a new report from Ford Authority notes that Ford is developing a hybrid version of the current-generation car.

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That Time When Ford Tried to Shove a Nuclear Reactor into a Car

There’s absurd, there’s delusional, and then there’s post-war American optimism.

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