So, Ford thought that its Fusion Hybrid would be able to travel 1600 kilometres (1000 miles) on a single tank of petrol and decided to test its theory on the weekend. The result? A resounding success: come the end of its journey, the Fusion Hybrid still had around one third of a tank of fuel [...]

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In these times of heightened environmental awareness, fuel economy is the big-ticket item for car makers and the better their figures look, the better the public perception.

With this in mind, Ford North America is aiming to travel 1609 kilometres (1000 miles) on a single tank of juice in its new mid-size Fusion Hybrid in the [...]

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As part of its plan to globalise as many of its models as possible (see our Ford Taurus article), Ford has announced that its North American operations will be responsible for the company’s next-generation mid-size sedan platform.

Ford is expected to use its European-developed platform  – currently underpinning the Ford Mondeo – as a starting point, [...]

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Ah, the inexorable march of technology. Those of us over the age of 20 no doubt have fond recollections of being wowed by the LED-driven digital dashboards that plagued many a 1980s-vintage automobile, but times - and tastes - change. These days it seems you’re more likely to be laughed at for owning a car [...]

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I’ll be honest with you: I hate the BMW X5. It’s large, it’s thirsty, it’s butt-ugly and I’d never buy one. But whenever I clamber aboard a V8-equipped X5 4.8i and stab that plank-like accelerator, I can’t help but swoon at the sound of that glorious German bent-eight.

Unfortunately, it seems BMW buyers around the [...]

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Ford has commenced production on the all-new 2009 Ford Fiesta at the Cologne assembly plant in Germany, with other Ford factories around the globe gearing up to produce the automaker’s latest small car offering.

Built off the same B-car platform that underpins the Mazda2, the seventh-generation Fiesta will spearhead Ford’s new One Ford business plan, which [...]

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Mazda has managed to score an impressive first and second place in a recent German reliability survey that analysed over 9 million inspections of 194 different models across 160 criteria. If you think that sounds like a reasonably comprehensive type of survey then you would be right.

Called the TUV report, it is run by [...]

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The third of Ford’s Verve Concepts has appeared at the Detroit Auto Show. First seen as a three-door hatch at the Frankfurt Motor Show in 2007 and then as a sedan later in the year at the Shanghai Motor Show, the Detroit iteration of the Verve keeps the boot but features a revised facia and [...]

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