Yes, you did read that correctly … we are talking about selling Volvo the company and not just a Volvo. For some time now Ford has owned Volvo as part of the Premier Automotive Group that also included Aston Martin, Jaguar and Land Rover but all it has left now is Volvo and Ford needs [...]
Well at the moment they’re all owned by Ford … but Ford would like to sell them … if they can find a buyer. On paper Volvo is probably the marque that’s got the most appeal to prospective purchasers but the reality is that Volvo isn’t doing quite so well as it appears to be [...]
Today’s Brisbane Courier Mail is reporting that the chief executive of Ford in the United States had talks last week with the chairman of Toyota with a view to forming some sort of ‘partnership’ It seems that Ford wants some help in reducing production costs. Now why would Toyota want to align itself with a [...]
Why do two people need four cupholders? As somebody who works full time on the Internet I often lament at how many designers of web pages and the scripts that produce web pages simply seem to have no clue as to useability. They seem to ignore the KISS principle entirely and produce sites that look [...]
This year Ford America is looking down the barrel of a $US12 billion loss as Ford cars continuen to be shunned by the American motorists. The only solution Ford sees to their financial woes is to offer redundancies to all of its 75,000 workers and hope that somewhere between 20,000 and 25,000 take up the [...]
Are you one of those really advanced techno-geek revheads that would love to be able to intergrate your iPod into the dash of your car? Well you’re not alone, it seems that there are many people around the world who would love to be able to do that and dispense with the current non-tech plug-in-cigarette [...]
Ford in the US has announced plans to reduce their focus on producing hybrid technology motor vehicles (the Toyota Prius is a hybrid) and turn their attention to building vehicles powered by biofuels. Around September last year Ford committed itself to building the production capacity required to roll 250,000 off the production line by the [...]
… then the news from Ford America must look good. The word is that sometime this decade Ford will release a 4.4 litre V8 diesel for it’s F-150. The Auto Blog is reporting that the new engine is currently in the development and planning stage.
Over the last little while Aussie Motoring has been reporting on some of the ways that GM in the US has been struggling to make a profit. I guess that might give you the idea that GM is the only one of the big car manufacturers who is really having a problem but that is [...]
