Ford gives dealers 2 months to accept new rules or stop selling EVs

Enlarge / Ford Motor Company President and CEO Jim Farley at the launch event for the Ford F-150 Lightning at the Rouge Electric Vehicle Center in Dearborn, Michigan, on Tuesday, April 26, 2022. Ford dealers have until the end of October to decide if they want to keep selling electric vehicles. And they’ll have to […]

Francis Ford Coppola Caught Lightning In A Bottle With Marlon Brando’s Godfather Screen Test

Marlon Brando’s performance as Don Vito Corleone in “The Godfather” is one of the best remembered in film history. The part won Brando his second Academy Award for Best Actor (an honor he declined). The film’s opening, where Don allows the people of the neighborhood to ask him for favors on the day of his […]

Ford updates its BlueCruise driver assist with hands-free lane changing and more

BlueCruise, Ford’s intelligent adaptive cruise control system, already offers drivers a number of assistive features such as lane centering, street sign recognition and hands-free highway driving along more than 130,000 miles of US roadways. On Thursday, Ford announced that it will begin releasing the program’s version 1.2 update later this Fall beginning with the 2023 […]

Why Ford Hired a Furniture Maker as CEO

Todd St. John If, as Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “an institution is the lengthened shadow of one man,” the story of the American economy can be told by the types of people who run its corporations. The early days of mass production belonged to mechanically minded men such as Henry Ford. The creation of mass […]

Volkswagen Might Put Audi on the Back Burner, Spend More Time With Ford: Report

According to sources who spoke to Reuters, Volkswagen Group has more interest in pursuing technological relationships with new partners, especially Ford, than continuing on with Audi as its main development hub. At least for a while. VW CEO Herbert Diess will reportedly unveil a 10-year plan to his company’s board later this month, part of an […]

Ford Expands Paid Time Off for New Parents

Wages may have stagnated, but companies know they can still curry the public’s favor by other means. Because corporations aren’t people, despite the government saying otherwise, they can’t really be good or evil. This frequently results in meaningless pandering, perplexing business decisions, or disingenuous marketing that pushes an empty moral narrative in an attempt to […]

Ford and Baidu team up to test autonomous cars in China

There’s a new partnership in the autonomous vehicle game as Ford has announced it will be teaming up with Chinese internet company Baidu to work on autonomous vehicles, with testing set to begin in Beijing by the end of the year. The initiative hopes to achieve SAE L4 (a classification that measures level of human […]

Volkswagen’s Not Ruling Out an Electric Tie-up With Ford

Pretty much everything is on the table at this point. At least, that’s the way it looks to industry observers. The partnership announced between Ford and Volkswagen back in June has the potential to birth any number of outcomes — from jointly developed commercial vehicles (the initial aim), to badge-swapped overseas small cars, autonomous vehicle […]

Goldman Sachs upgrades Ford — and says the stock could rise 30% (F)

David Ramos/Getty Goldman Sachs has upgraded Ford to ‘buy’ with a $ 12 price target.  Analyst David Tamberrino says a refreshed product line and cost improvement could lead to 30% gains. Ford jumped more than 6% following the upgrade — follow the stock live in real-time here.  Goldman Sachs has upgraded Ford to a buy […]