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Ford and Canadian Auto Workers reportedly reach a deal

Ford Motor Company and the leadership of the Canadian Auto Workers union have reached a tentative agreement after a marathon four-day wrap-up to negotiations. Union membership needs to approve the deal, which will guarantee a Great White North presence for Ford until at least 2012. Voting is underway this weekend, and if approved, the CAW will be responsible for building 10 percent of Ford's North American production, down from the current 13 percent, which the union had been trying to hold on to. Workers did agree to time off ... Read more →

REPORT: Labor unrest in India to cause Ford to idle key NA crossover plant Jonathon Ramsey

Rico Auto Industries in India makes transmission parts for Ford's Flex and Edge, along with its upscale Lincoln MKT and MKX twins. Unfortunately for the Blue Oval, Automotive News is reporting ...

Review: 2010 Ford Flex EcoBoost turns it up to 11 Dan Roth

We were headed on a road trip, because that's what you do when the summer draws to a close and something as gigantic as the Ford Flex rolls into your driveway. Destination: Brooklyn. Five miles ...

Lincoln MKT earns Top Safety Pick from IIHS Chris Shunk

Ford has dumped all of its latest safety gadgets into the already structurally sound 2010 Lincoln MKT, and the Blue Oval's engineering labor appears to have paid off as the luxury crossover has ...

Fido Approved: America's top ten pet-safe vehicles Jonny Lieberman

Most people don't pay it any mind, but car accidents and pets don't mix. Just like with humans, wrapping your car around a telephone pole can kill Fido dead. Or really injure the cute little guy. ...

First Drive: 2010 Ford Flex EcoBoost delivers more than just a better engine 4 months ago on Autoblog

Just a year after the Ford Flex first appeared, the Blue Oval has revamped its lineup in ways that make the 2010 model quite different from its forebearer. First among the changes is the Blue Oval's EcoBoost engine, which packs 3.5 liters of displacement and a duo of turbochargers to produce V8 ...

Hyundai trumps BMW and Jaguar in J.D. Power 2009 APEAL study 4 months ago on Autoblog

Porsche grabs the top spot for the fifth year in a row in the J.D. Power and Associates 2009 Automotive Performance, Execution, and Layout (APEAL) Study. For this year's study, the team at JDPA gathered information from more than 80,900 purchasers and lessees of new 2009 model-year cars and ...

Racing a Lincoln MKS EcoBoost at Milan Dragway [w/VIDEO] 6 months ago on Autoblog

When the 2009 Lincoln MKS entered production, it arrived to market with a 273 horsepower, 3.7-liter V6. This made the new luxurious Lincoln a large, loaded, heavy vehicle with the power of a Nissan Altima. When we reviewed the MKS, we liked the newest Lincoln's interior, loved its in-car ...

CES 2009: The cars of CES Part II 10 months ago on Autoblog

While CES is and should be known for its unabashed display of geekery, it has also become a venue to display some top-notch custom automobiles. Take for instance the Ford Flex at Sony's XPlod display. Sony says it wears an "urban-themed custom paint job" on the outside and a long list of the ...

Detroit 2009: Lincoln MKT debuts with a big, toothy smile 10 months ago on Autoblog

Ford has a major-league hit on its hands with the 2009 Flex crossover – with the media. Sadly, despite its varied and considerable charms, sales haven't met the Blue Oval's admittedly lofty expectations. Blame the recession, blame the marketing department, blame the Flex's divisive ...

N.A. Car and Truck of the Year Finalists Announced 11 months ago on Autoblog

Now that the motoring world has announced the International COTY and TOTY contenders, the finalists for North American Car and Truck of the Year have been revealed. The six chosen chariots consist of some of the same nameplates, but whereas the international body tapped the Dodge Challenger, ...

Automobile Magazine Announces 2009 All-Stars 11 months ago on Autoblog

After what we're sure are thousands of miles driven and some undoubtedly heated round table debates, Automobile Magazine has chosen its 2009 All-Stars. The ten winners were chosen based upon attributes that include design, driving enjoyment, performance and value, with vehicles taken from a ...

SEMA 2008: A baker's dozen concepts stretch Ford Flex-ibility 1 year ago on Autoblog

With so many acres of sheetmetal to work with, the Ford Flex definitely offers a tempting canvas for tuners and automotive taggers. But 13 official custom Flexes? It seems everyone and their mother decided to do up a tuned Flex this year for SEMA. We were told there were at least 13, but we ...

Slow Ford Flex sales blamed on... 1 year ago on Autoblog

Ford's boxy new Flex crossover wagon is far from meeting its sales expectations. And while part of its slow sales can be chalked up to the overall downturn in the auto market, and specifically sales of large 'utes, some believe that there could be more than meets the eye to this particular ...

SEMA Preview: CGS ReFlex 1 year ago on Autoblog

Every time we see a Flex on the road, it looks cartoonish to us – those two massive rectangles sitting on cute little wheels. We wouldn't be surprised if, a la CARS, a Flex started talking to us. The "ReFlex" above, designed by Sean Smith of SS Designs and being prepared by CGS ...

Spy Shots: 2010 Lincoln MKT 1 year ago on Autoblog

Only a few days after Ford officially confirmed that the seven-seat crossover everyone already knew was coming was indeed coming, a preproduction mule of the Lincoln MKT has been spotted in the wild. Ford promised that the MKT would look nothing like its Ford Flex sibling, and a quick glance at ...

Ford to officially announce Lincoln MKT today 1 year ago on Autoblog

Click above for a high-res gallery of the Lincoln MKT concept. We've been waiting for an official production announcement of the Lincoln MKT since the concept was unveiled at the Detroit Auto Show in January, and according to Automotive News and the Wall Street Journal, that confirmation comes ...

Ford Flex earns five stars all around for crash safety 1 year ago on Autoblog

Click above for a high-res gallery of the Ford Flex. Ford has made safety one of its top priorities, and its efforts have paid off. Not only does the Blue Oval have more five-star crash rated vehicles than any other automaker, but it's added another notch to its safety belt with NHTSA giving the ...

Second drive: 2009 Ford Flex SEL AWD, I concur! 1 year ago on Autoblog

Click above for high-res gallery of the Ford Flex As things turned out a brand new Ford Flex turned up the Ypsilanti branch of the Autoblog garage just a week after my friend Chris had one. While Chris used the Flex as a daily hauler, my family and I used the Flex to make a trek up to Traverse City ...

Flex designer casualty of Ford bloodletting 1 year ago on Autoblog

From: Ford Motor Company To: Richard Gresens Richard; sincere thanks for designing the Flex, a vehicle that's working well for FoMoCo in the press, gathering much critical praise at a time when we need it most. Your team succeeded at turning the Freestyle's sows ear into a bigger, slicker, bolder ...

Ford cancels planned third shift for crossovers at Oakville plant 1 year ago on Autoblog

Click above high-res gallery of the 2009 Ford Flex Ford has been banking on strong sales of its crossover vehicles to help counter the sinking ship that is its line of SUVs. While the new Ford Edge and Lincoln MKX, along with the brand new Ford Flex and revised Escape, have sold well enough to ...

VIDEO: Autoblog goes commercial with faux Flex spot 1 year ago on Autoblog

We're typically too busy with our nose to the automotive grindstone to goof off. After stumbling across some 50 year old Ford commercials on YouTube during our time with the Ford Flex, we had all the inspiration needed for some weekend fun. The old days of automotive advertising meant long, one- ...

Review: 2009 Ford Flex Limited [w/VIDEO] 1 year ago on Autoblog

When the Ford Fairlane concept bowed in Detroit in 2005, it proved that Ford could design a stylish crossover recognizable from a mile away. Unfortunately, Ford didn't exactly have a stellar record of bringing hot concepts to market, so expectations were low that we would ever see the Fairlane ...

Look at those shoes: Goodyear picked for standard Flex fitment 1 year ago on Autoblog

They're not very glamorous, but tires make or break our driving enjoyment. Ford wants to soothe drivers of its new Family Truckster Flex, so Goodyear's Assurance ComforTred tires have been specified as the original fitment for the big crossover. The Assurance ComforTred uses a special cushion layer ...

Ford reduces time between styling changes to three years 1 year ago on Autoblog

Click above for high-res gallery of our first drive of the 2009 Ford Flex According to Peter Horbury, Ford's head of design in North America, the Blue Oval will be shortening the time frame between major styling changes for its models from five years to three. This move is part of a plan to reduce ...

First Drive: 2009 Ford Flex Limited AWD 1 year ago on Autoblog

Those of you who follow the auto industry as obsessively as we do will immediately recognize the all-new 2009 Ford Flex as the production version of the well-received Ford Fairlane "People Mover" concept from the 2005 Chicago Auto Show. The suicide doors are gone and the front has been opened ...

Ford begins production of the Flex 1 year ago on Autoblog

On one end, General Motors is announcing its intention to wind down SUV and truck production, while at the other, Ford is just gearing up production of a vehicle that's plenty large in its own right. Ford Flexes are now beginning to roll off the line in Oakville, Ontario, and the plant even has ...

Ford Flex gets fridge 1 year ago on Autoblog

The move to make your car a rolling house makes takes another step. Ford has included a refrigerator option on the all new Flex, and in doing so has provided something better than what you'll find on many luxury cars. The rear seat gadget doesn't just chill the holding area -- it runs off of a ...

Damn that Flex is sexy! 1 year ago on Autoblog

Click above for new high-res pics of the Ford Flex The Ford Flex has that boxy design that people either love or hate, which is good because for many years the Blue Oval had too many designs that nobody cared about either way. After looking at some drop-dead sexy picks that FoMoCo added to its ...

Ford shoots for 100,000 Flex sales a year 1 year ago on Autoblog

Click above for a high-res gallery of the Ford Flex. The SUV exodus means Ford's Flex has the potential to be a hit and it's gearing up for an onslaught of orders when sales begin this summer. Ford's group veep of marketing and communications, Jim Farley, told Automotive News that consumers leaving ...

Spy Shots: Ford Flex gets the woody treatment 1 year ago on Autoblog

Certain automotive fashions are better left in the grave. To wit: faux wood paneling. It looks good on the old Woody, but it's an absolute atrocity on everything else (see: Griswold, PT Cruiser). However, spies have caught the new Ford Flex donning some woodgrain shelf paper paneling, and as much as ...

New York 2008: Ford flexes its creative side with cool lids 1 year ago on Autoblog

Click above image for a high-res gallery and discover what those graphics add up to At the Javits Center in New York today, Ford rolled out its "Cool Lid" project with "urban artist" Tristan Eaton on hand to live-art the roof of a Ford Flex. Tristan is perhaps best known as the creator of ...

Detroit 2008: Officially Official - It's the Lincoln MKT! 1 year ago on Autoblog

click above for more high-res images of the Lincoln MKT We first saw spy photos of the Lincoln MKT concept only a week ago, and it's now here as a concept at the 2008 Detroit Auto Show. Based on the fact that a development mule was spotted already, you can ignore Lincoln when it says the MKT is a ...

REPORT: Lincoln MKT may be unveiled at Detroit show 1 year ago on Autoblog

Click image for a gallery of the suspected Lincoln MKT mule According to an LA Times piece on the silliness that is modern vehicle naming, the paper appears to have flubbed a little bit revealing that Ford will introduce the 2009 Lincoln MKT at the Detroit Auto Show next week. What's the MKT? Well, ...

CES 2008: Dolby surrounds Ford's Flex in sound 1 year ago on Autoblog

We had the opportunity to sit in a dark maroon Ford Flex at the Dolby booth for a demonstration of their 7.1 Surround Sound system they've developed with the Blue Oval, and the first thing I notice is the super-nice croc-print leather seats beneath me. Michael Becker, Dolby's Global Marketing ...

SEMA 2007: Funkmaster Flex goes flossin' with his friends in the Flex2 2 years ago on Autoblog

UPDATE: Woops. We switched the Foose Flex with the Funkmaster Flex2. The post has been updated to show the correct vehicle. click above image for high-res pics of the FF Flex2 Funkmaster Flex made his debut last year at SEMA with a customized Expedition, and he's bringing what Ford calls "urban ...

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