2007 Ford Edge Related News
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Paul Eisenstein, Executive Editor | 06/20/08 12:02 PM
After being put into suspended animation following a botched operation, Woody Allen wakes up centuries in the future - as a wanted man. Looking to escape, he steals an aerodynamic bubble car in one of the most memorable scenes from the film Sleeper . For decades, the image shown above has resurfaced whenever I think about cars of the future. But could we be seeing bubble cars on the road in the...
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By Paul Eisenstein, Executive Editor | 05/30/08 11:11 AM
Days after telling its senior managers to expect cuts of at least 10 to 12 percent in the white-collar workforce, Ford has revealed that it won’t be able to meet the even modest sales targets it had set for itself as part of a broad turnaround plan. Capturing 13 percent of the U.S. retail motor vehicle market has “become inoperable,” said Ford’s chief sales analyst, George Pipas, during an...
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By Paul Eisenstein, Executive Editor | 05/14/08 6:52 PM
When the South Korean carmaker Hyundai recently announced plans to introduce a Microsoft-based navigation and communications system into its cars, it underscored the dramatic transformation of today’s automobiles. While they may remain, at their most fundamental, mechanical devices, the modern car has become an electronic center, with digital technology controlling everything from the engine to...
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By 
Marty Padgett, Executive Editor | 03/20/08 10:58 AM
Last year at the New York auto show , we brought you a full preview for the new 2009 Flex . And as Ford preps for the media launch of the Flex this summer, before putting them into showrooms in the fall, they offered us the chance to get a "first ride" in the big crossover during the New York auto show press days. Ford's Kate Pierce, who heads up marketing for the new crossover, went along for...
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By 
Bengt Halvorson, Editor | 01/13/08 10:37 PM
There's one trend that just about everyone who follows and is within the auto industry agree on: Old-style body-on-frame sport-utility vehicles are on the decline. Especially mid-size ones, the kind that people with the really heavy-duty towing needs skip over for the largest SUVs . In 2007, Prius sales actually passed those of the Ford Explorer , the longtime best-selling model in the segment...
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By Marty Padgett, Executive Editor | 01/07/08 12:00 AM
Ford is looking for ways to speed up the introduction of its next generation of vehicles, says the company’s new vice president of marketing and communications. Jim Farley, hired away from Toyota by Ford , told TheCarConnection.com he was in the process of revamping the company’s marketing effort, which he says is too centralized. He’s also in the process of streamlining the presentation of...
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By Marty Padgett, Executive Editor | 01/03/08 12:00 AM
General Motors, Ford , Toyota , Volkswagen , Nissan , and Mercedes-Benz all reported U.S. auto sales fell in December, leaving car sales at their lowest level since 1998.GM's sales of new cars and light trucks dropped 4.1 percent from a year earlier, according to Autodata, while Ford's total tumbled 9.2 percent and Toyota's fell 1.7 percent as overall sales dropped four percent in December. For...
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By Marty Padgett, Executive Editor | 12/13/07 12:00 AM
On the original Knight Rider TV series, which ran from 1982 to 1986, David Hasselhoff was catapulted to stardom. But the real star was a talking car named KITT (Knight Industries Two Thousand), a Pontiac Trans Am that, in a stretch of reality, was modified to reach a salt-flats-defying 300 miles per hour with the help of a ‘Turbo Boost’ mode. The original KITT could drive itself, conduct...
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By Marty Padgett, Executive Editor | 03/22/07 10:46 AM
Ford is crossover heavy, what with the Escape, Edge and Freestyle. But it’s not minivan-heavy, and that’s something the Blue Oval hopes to correct later this year with the Flex, a crossover built to function like a minivan while avoiding the whole “Freestar” word entirely. The Flex, reports this morning indicate, will have its world introduction at the New York Auto Show and...
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By Marty Padgett, Executive Editor | 02/21/07 6:42 PM
Britain’s Autocar magazine says that a coming revamp of the big Jaguar XJ sedan could be the brand’s last shot at life under Ford . The magazine, in its online edition, reports that the replacement for the current XJ – dubbed X351 internally – will keep the current car’s aluminum structure but will get an entirely new set of aluminum panels that will drastically...
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