Thanks to Autoblog:
Sure, the 2010 Ford Fusion Hybrid may have a base price that’s more expensive than a Toyota Camry Hybrid ($27,270 vs. $26,150), but you get oh so much more. Aside from more interesting styling and a trick LCD display
called SmartGauge, Ford Fusion Hybrid owners will be able to travel 41
miles in the city for every gallon of gas they use.
And doesn’t it look like a BBBIIIGGG improvement over the current model! I know, I know – words are boring! So here are the spy shots…
Source: PickUpTrucks.com
For most of the past decade, new features in half-ton pickups were aimed primarily at casual truck buyers. Now those buyers are fleeing big trucks for smaller vehicles. Core truck buyers are making up ever-larger percentages of half-ton purchasers.
Yes! That’s right folks! It’s another award for the 2009 Ford F-150 – it has been officially crowned as Motor Trend’s Truck Of The Year (TOTHY)!
Source: Autoblog
Ford’s business plan submitted to Congress a few weeks ago indicated that the Detroit-based automaker would be offering a “full battery electric vehicle in a van-type vehicle for commercial fleet use in 2010.” Up until this point, we were left to speculate on the basis for the new EV, but Ford CEO Alan Mulally has now revealed that the new Blue Oval van will be based on the European Ford Transit that’s scheduled to hit U.S. shores in the summer of 2009.
Source: Autoblog
A columnist over at Slate.com is recommending – and not lightly, he wants you to know – that with the domestic automakers enduring “Detroit’s version of The Troubles,” now would be a good time to “euthanize” NASCAR. He makes a long argument, but the crux of it is simple: if the domestics get a heap of money from the government, should that money really be used to sponsor a specialized race series that arguably doesn’t have the national pull or the return it once did?
His supporting arguments are sometimes disingenuous and occasionally slightly off-base, but the question is worth considering. If the public loans money to the automakers, who decides where that money is spent? Yet, if Ford, GM, and Chrysler were to do the same thing to NASCAR that Honda, Suzuki, Audi, and Subaru have been doing, well… that would leave NASCAR as a one-make series featuring, ta-da, Toyota. And wouldn’t that be something to see?
A article The Detroit News has stated that Fords new Fusion could be hauled by a 2.0L, 4 cylinder “EcoBoost” engine by as early as 2010. Follow on for the report…
For ~ $56,000 AUD, you can buy some pretty hot metal – think Ford FG Falcon XR6 Turbo or Holden VE Commodore SS. You could even opt for a FPV or HSV. Heck! Even an entry level German is in your price range! But, if you are lucky enough to live in England (or at least Europe), there’s a new very fast kid on the block – the Ford Focus RS – all for just £24,995 or about €27,700…
Here is the full article on the first impressions of the new-for-09 Ford Fusion Hybrid…
