The EPA does not, and cannot, verify mileage numbers for the majority of light-duty vehicles (though I imagine there's a Ford C-Max Hybrid on the dynamometers in Michigan right now).
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Mulally's got it half right: It's a crime that Ford allowed what was once America's best-selling car to wither on the vine.
More recently, as president of Ford's car business, Mr Nasser has taken a grip on Ford's global reorganisation, which Mr Trotman launched a few years earlier and which had seemed to be spinning out of control.
That's a tribute to Ford's new cars like the Ford Fusion and Lincoln Zephyr, but the decline in truck sales will hurt profits.
So it's unlikely Ghosn will be getting a call from Ford's Dearborn, Mich.
Ford's latest hope is MarkFieldsMark Fields, who did a good job turning around Ford's 37%-owned Mazda unit.
All of which allows Gary White, GM's head truck executive, to chuckle a little at Ford's F-Series war room.
Its engine, positioned in racing-car style behind the driver's seat, was a Ford, so spares were easily available and relatively cheap.
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He's a leader in helping Ford wring out waste and simplify work rules to boost productivity. (Many Ford plants, in fact, are adopting four-day workweeks, fewer job classifications and lower pay for janitors, just like GEMA.) But Sullivan objects to how few jobs at GEMA are left for UAW workers earning top-tier wages.
But after stepping down, he and Ford had a summit at Ford's Santa Fe ranch.
"There's still the perception out there that if you want a real man's big truck, you have to get a Chevy, Ford or Dodge, " concedes Leslie Unger, Toyota's national motor-sports manager.
Since then he's announced plans for a potential spinoff of part of Ford's Hertz rental-car subsidiary, and in May Ford agreed to buy back 24 plants from Visteon, its troubled former parts operation, to ensure the delivery of critical components.
One welcome addition to Ford's lineup is a full-sized, seven-passenger crossover vehicle based on the new Ford Fairlane concept, a boxy amalgam of a sport utility vehicle and a minivan that was popular at recent auto shows.
Brousseau also says that he helped customize a Ford Excursion S.U.V. that Cruise owned, installing features such as handmade eucalyptus panelling.
But that's a guess, said Bill Ford, the company's executive chairman.
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Toyota's RAV-4 was down just 14.7%, and Ford's Edge suffered a passable 22.5% decline, although they each sold more than 2, 000 units less than the CR-V.
One was Ford's latest plan--a strange idea--of naming all Ford models with the letter F.
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Pollster Nik Nanos said polling showed voters knew about past Ford controversies, but that they weren't a factor in Rob Ford's election in 2010.
The late John Bissell had been a buyer for Macy's when he came to India in 1958 on a Ford Foundation grant to advise a government-run handicrafts institution.
But especially with hybrids such as the C-Max, he says, variables such as temperature, a driver's behavior and the engineering choices Ford makes to balance mileage and performance can make a big difference.
Now that he's got a little breathing room, it's time for Bill Ford to decide where the company is headed.
America's big three car makers had a torrid November in home markets: Ford's sales fell by 17%, GM'S by 18% and DaimlerChrysler's by 12%.
This is otherwise a hugely winning vehicle, with a lot of smart cabin details and premium materials all wrought in Ford's current design vocabulary, a sort of low-key, friendly futurism.
WSJ: 2013 Ford C-Max Hybrid Review: A Fine Car Falls Way Short on MPG | Rumble Seat by Dan Neil
In a windowless conference room in an office building near Ford Motor's Dearborn, Michigan headquarters, a handful of marketing experts have assembled a shrine to the company's bestselling vehicle, the F-Series pickup truck.
The Citroen driver's success, the 51st of his career, sees him open up a 10-point lead over Ford's Mikko Hirvonen at the top of the drivers' standings and it is becoming difficult to see how any of his rivals can stop him marching to a sixth successive world title.
In a windowless conference room in an office building near Ford Motor's Dearborn, Mich. headquarters, a handful of marketing experts have assembled a shrine to the company's bestselling vehicle, the F-Series pickup truck.
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