So, Ford scoured auto-enthusiast websites and owner forums to see what drivers were saying about turn indicators.
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But if Ford and other auto executives see the technology with a Jetsons like optimism, they have darker concerns, too.
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Ford constantly reminds auto reporters and consumers that its F-Series pickup has been the top-selling light vehicle in the U.S. for the past 30 years.
She crossed Hollis Avenue and cut through a wooded area, emerging in an alley that dead-ended at the body shop of Dave Dinger Ford, an auto dealership.
Ford and other auto companies wanted to be able to prove that their infotainment systems could keep up with the consumer-electronics industry and a pace of product introduction and obsolescence that is many times faster than the glacial pace in the car business.
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Developed in partnership with 13 major auto manufacturers including Ford, GM and Chrysler, the state of California, the United Auto Workers (UAW), consumer and environmental groups, and other stakeholders, these achievable and cost-effective standards represent the most significant federal action ever taken to improve fuel economy and reduce carbon pollution.
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What Jobs did for mobile gaming is like what Henry Ford did for the auto industry.
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Ford, like other auto makers, is loath to add the Food and Drug Administration to an already heavy regulatory load.
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During the recent economic downturn that brought havoc throughout the global auto industry Ford saw production slump from 5.532 million units in 2008 to 4.817 million units in 2009.
And yesterday, President Obama even pulled Ford into it, declaring that if the auto industry had fallen apart instead of been rescued, Ford would have gone down, too.
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Chrysler, which was founded in 1924, has always been a less fully integrated auto company than Ford or General Motors.
Typical of the auto industry, Ford's early hybrids contained batteries that involved third parties in everything from design to testing.
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They also want to help beleaguered U.S. auto companies like Ford, Chrysler and General Motors gain a foothold in the Korean market.
Or rather a dream reborn, because Valdiserri has revived part of a project that had been the dream of auto pioneer Henry Ford.
And the Energy Department doled out billions more to Ford and others to preserve auto-making jobs in the U.S. while steering the industry toward cleaner vehicles.
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In part, this is explained by the unveiling of new models by large auto producers like Ford, General Motors, and Toyota, according to Barclays.
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It is supplies auto rectifiers to Ford, Toyota and others.
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Global giants on hand at Auto Shanghai include Ford, which is in the process of rolling out 15 new models in a bid to address more segments of the local market.
Tightening credit is clamping down on the auto industry as Ford Motor announced its U.S. sales in September sunk 34.6% to 120, 788 vehicles, its weakest levels of the year, from 184, 612 reported in September 2007.
The former Boeing (nyse: BA - news - people ) executive will surely want a chance to get up to speed on the auto industry and Ford's troubles before diving into any talks of a three-way global alliance.
They also want to help beleaguered U.S. auto companies like Ford (nyse: F - news - people ), Chrysler and General Motors (nyse: GM - news - people ) gain a foothold in the Korean market.
It has driven all U.S. auto companies, except Ford, either out of the business or into bankruptcy.
Back then, Ford had to go outside the auto industry to find a textile manufacturer capable of producing recycled fabric.
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You would not have an auto -- maybe Ford might have survived.
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Ford has traditionally lagged other major auto majors such as GM, Volkswagen and Toyota in China primarily because it was too slow to enter the Chinese market.
At the New York Auto Show this week Ford is showing of some new technology designed to curb drowsy-driving that will be included in all Volvos before 2010.
Ford has traditionally lagged behind global auto majors such as General Motors, Toyota and Volkswagen AG, but the company is investing significantly in the region to increase capacity and expand the product line as it looks to cut its dependency on the North American market.
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Ford's contract with the United Auto Workers includes certain job security measures that protect employees even when they're laid off.
The list of winners includes some big global brand names, such as Sweden's Volvo , which makes heavy trucks--Volvo's auto business was sold to Ford Motor (nyse: F - news - people ) in 1999--and gained 68%.
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