Darren Walker, Who Reoriented the Ford Foundation, to Step Down Mr. Walker, who oversaw $7 billion in grants, plans to leave at the end of 2025 after what will have been 12 years.

Ford F350, Baja 1000 Ford Bronco DR, Plymouth Scamp: The Dopest Cars I Found For Sale Online Folks, happy Fourth of July. If there was ever a more perfect day for these slides, I don’t know it. The vehicles, the act of buying and selling, this slideshow is everything America stands for all rolled into one. Read more…

The 2024 Ford Mustang Is The Last Great V8-Powered Muscle Car At this point, the Ford Mustang is the last V8-powered muscle car left on the market — fitting given it was the original muscle car. The Chevrolet Camaro exited production a few months ago, and the new Dodge Charger has either straight-six or EV power. So unless you spend big money on something British or German, the… Read more…

Ford Lightning Supertruck Breaks Down At Pikes Peak, Still Wins Pikes Peak champion and outright record holder Romain Dumas made it just two corners into his attempt on the hill this weekend before his Ford Lightning Supertruck ground to a halt on course. After getting a good start and rocketing up the hill, the truck simply shut off. After cycling the start procedure a couple of… Read more…

A New Ford RS200 Is Here To Punch Your Nostalgia In The Face In celebration of the iconic RS200’s 40 years on this planet English firm Boreham has contracted with Ford to revive the Group B rally competitor as an officially licensed new nostalgia monster. Boreham Motorworks will “produce and remaster” the RS200 in limited numbers, and further Ford icons are slated to receive… Read more…

You Can Get A Used Ford Focus RS For The Price Of A New Honda Civic If you’re like me, you may be still mourning the end of production of the Ford Focus RS. It was legitimately one of the best hot hatches ever made. Its short 2016–2018 run meant not many people got a chance to get their hands on one, and high dealer markups didn’t help. Now, over five years after it ended production,… Read more…

Ford And GM Lay Out Vasty Different Hybrid Strategies Good morning! It’s Friday, May 31, 2024, and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know. Read more…

Ford Made A Ranger SHO 4 Years Before The SVT Lightning We used to be a proper country. A country where performance pickups like the Chevy 454 SS, Toyota Tacoma X-Runner and GMC Syclone roamed the streets. Performance pickups still exist today like the Ram TRX and Ford F-150 and Ranger Raptor models, but they’re off-road focused. Things might have been different had Ford… Read more…

Ford Wants To Remind You Of All The Times The Mustang Had A Good Livery By Giving It A Bad Livery When was the last time you saw a truly good racing livery? Think about it for a minute. A great stand-alone livery that will be looked back on as iconic in fifty years time, one that isn’t a throwback or homage, one that isn’t just a mishmash of black, white, and red —that’s a true rarity these days. I will say that i… Read more…

Ford Will Paint Your Mustang For Free, So Long As The Color is Boring The United States are in a dark age for automotive color. It’s all monochrome as far as the eye can see, even as the era of Nardo Gray Omnipresence begins to wane. Yet, while buyers clamor for bright hues, manufacturers are going the other way — charging ever more for color. Read more…

Ford Slashes F-150 Lightning Price To Reignite Sales Good morning! It’s Friday, April 12, 2024, and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know. Read more…

Ford Bronco Sport, OJ Simpson Recalled On Same Day Bronco Sport owners are having some trouble today, as Ford recalled 22,270 of the compact crossovers (alongside 20,382 Escapes) for possible cracked fuel injectors. One famed Bronco owner, however, has things even worse: The family of OJ Simpson confirmed his death at age 76 this morning, following a battle with… Read more…

Ford, Northumberland, England The village of Ford in Northumberland. Not too far from the border town of Berwick-upon-Tweed. I found the church and graveyard here in Ford absolutely gorgeous, even in the rain. Northumberland is an overlooked county in England, but there few people living here and so it’s good for quiet countryside and historic escapes. submitted by /u…

Ford Slows Its Push Into Electric Vehicles The automaker said it would delay new battery-powered models and shift its focus to hybrid cars, sales of which are rising fast.

Shocking: Ford Lowered Mustang Mach-E Prices, And People Finally Bought Them The Ford Mustang Mach-E may have caused its fair share of controversy over the decision to call an electric crossover a Mustang, but as long as you can get past that, we found it to be a solid EV. Unfortunately for Ford, it ran into issues selling the Mach-E and ended up with a lot of extra inventory. Ford responded… Read more…

Ford, Stellantis Workers Join GM in Ratifying New UAW Contract United Auto Workers union members at Stellantis and Ford have now joined General Motors workers in ratifying the labor agreement between the union and the Big Three automakers this week. The vote marks the end of the labor dispute between the two parties that resulted in a six-week-long strike earlier this year. Read more…

Full-Size Trucks From Ram, Ford And Chevy All Rated ‘Poor’ In IIHS Rear Seat Safety Test Pickups are not as safe as most people would assume, at least not for passengers riding in the back seat of full size trucks. The 2023 Ford F-150, Chevy Silverado and Ram 1500 earned “poor” ratings in the latest IIHS crash safety test, which takes into account how well (or not) new vehicles protect rear passengers in… Read more…

Ford Dealers Don’t Trust Ford Some would assume that a dealership franchise from a major automaker would have some sort of faith or trust in the brand they choose to sell. I mean, dropping millions of dollars just to sell a brand you don’t trust would be kind of crazy right? Apparently it’s not such a far fetched idea. Read more…

OU’s Ford stokes Bedlam with Gundy comments Oklahoma defensive lineman Trace Ford, who transferred to the Sooners from Oklahoma State after appearing in 32 games in four seasons for the Cowboys, said he hasn’t spoken to Oklahoma State coach Mike Gundy since Ford left the school.

Ford Will Sell You A Mustang With Enough Horsepower To Ruin Your Life Ford is no stranger to offering a giant supercharger as an aftermarket upgrade for its cars. It has been selling a 700-horsepower kit for 5-liter F150 pickups for a couple of years now, and a similar kit was available for the S550-generation Mustang. Now Ford Performance has brought that same… Read more…