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Aric Almirola led the way for Ford drivers in qualifying for Sunday's Quicken Loans 400 at Michigan International Speedway with a fourth-place effort. Brad Keselowski will start sixth and Joey Logano ninth. View the full article

Ford Explorer brings new options to utility vehicle customers for 2015, including a sport-inspired appearance package that raises the bar on comfort and technology without breaking the bank, as well as new colors and features. View the full article

More than three decades after taping a full-page ad ripped from a 1965 car magazine above his bunk on an Alaskan crab boat, Mark Hovander is touring the country this year with the same Ford Shelby GT350 Mustang pictured on that page. View the full article

Ford Motor Company announced today it is lowering the fuel economy ratings for its 2013- and 2014-model year hybrid and plug-in hybrid vehicles, as well as most 2014-model year Fiestas. View the full article

Ford Motor Company today celebrated the grand opening of its new, world-class facility in Colombo and a renewed focus on the Sri Lanka market. Housing showroom, sales and service under one roof, the new location strengthens the global automaker’s presence in the country View the full article

All-new 2015 Ford Mustang will serve as pace car for the Quicken Loans 400 NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Michigan International Speedway June 15, a fitting tribute to 50 years of continuous production. View the full article

Researchers at Ford and Heinz are investigating the use of tomato fibers in developing sustainable, composite materials for use in vehicle manufacturing. View the full article

Ford China sales grew 32 percent in May with 93,323 wholesales sold compared to 70,449 wholesales in May 2013. Year-to-date sales were up 39 percent, with 461,473 wholesales sold compared to 332,308 wholesales sold in the first five months of 2013. View the full article

Technology can contribute to safer situations on the road involving new drivers including teenagers, but parental involvement is key. That’s the main takeaway from a forum held yesterday at Citi Field in Queens, New York, and hosted by Ford Motor Company and Ford Driving Skills for Life. View the full article

It’s World Environment Day and the Ford Volunteer Corps has fanned out across southeast Michigan to work on community environmental projects. Equipped with rakes and shovels, plants and building materials, Ford employees are out in force on a Ford Accelerated Action Day. Ford volunteers will plant urban vegetable gardens, install watering systems, construct storage sheds and landscape the grounds of nonprofit organizations. View the full article

The all-new 2015 Ford Transit, America’s newest Built Ford Tough van, delivers as much as 46 percent better gas mileage than Ford E-Series and offers Ford van customers more choices and capability than ever. View the full article

Edsel B. Ford II is a member of the Board of Directors of Ford Motor Company. He was elected to the board in 1988. As a consultant to Ford, Mr. Ford is active in company affairs and corporate dealer relations. View the full article

Ford Motor Company U.S. sales totaled 254,084 vehicles in May, up 3 percent from a year ago. Ford Sales Analyst, Erich Merkle, says retail sales set several model records with 174,889 vehicles sold – an increase of 6 percent. View the full article

Ford Motor Company and Samsung SDI, an affiliate of Samsung Group, today announced research on different levels of hybrid technology that could one day be produced in high volume on non-hybrid vehicles for greater fuel savings. View the full article

Ford Motor Company today unveiled its Lightweight Concept vehicle, which uses advanced materials to explore future weight-reduction solutions that could improve performance and fuel efficiency while reducing carbon dioxide emissions. View the full article

Ford Motor Company U.S. sales totaled 254,084 vehicles in May, up 3 percent from a year ago. Retail sales set several model records with 174,889 vehicles sold – an increase of 6 percent. View the full article

Ford India more than doubled its sales in May, selling 12,288 vehicles in combined domestic wholesales and exports, compared with 5,993 units sold in the corresponding period last year. View the full article

Ford today announced that it will bring its Ford AppLink platform to three new Asia Pacific markets in 2015 – Taiwan, New Zealand and Thailand – and that it will introduce its Emergency Assistance technology to the Taiwan market. View the full article

The new 2015 F-150 claimed Ford Motor Company’s first-ever Yankee Cup for trucks, a technology award bestowed by the New England Motor Press Association, in conjunction with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, at an annual awards dinner Thursday View the full article

Ford Motor Company is bringing to market a new generation of steering technology that will help make vehicles easier to maneuver at low speeds and in tight spaces. At higher speeds, the new technology will help make the vehicle more agile and fun to drive. View the full article

Ford Motor Company went beyond its labs to test a key part of the all-new Ford F-150. The company embedded six prototype pickups – each with an experimental aluminum-alloy cargo box – at some of its fleet customer job sites then quietly went about evaluating the design and engineering of the next-generation pickup in the toughest conditions. View the full article

Ford Motor Company is offering an exclusive opportunity for fleet owners, commercial customers and dealers to drive and learn about the all-new 2015 Ford Transit. View the full article

The technology is potentially applicable to other forms of seated-passenger transportation, including military use, and airborne passengers traveling by helicopter or airplane, and even for water travel. View the full article

As Ford Mustang has evolved over five decades and six generations, much has changed. Yet certain visual cues that tie the latest model back to the originals continue to recur, just as facial features like the slant of a nose or the shape of the eyes repeat themselves in any family. View the full article

Ford Automotive Finance (China), Ford Motor Credit Company’s subsidiary in China, has completed its first asset-backed securitization (ABS) in China to support the financing of Ford-brand vehicle sales. Ford Automotive Finance (China) is the first wholly foreign-owned auto finance company to complete an ABS transaction – for 800 million renminbi – in China under the most recent ABS pilot program governed by the China Banking Regulatory Commission and the People’s Bank of China. View the full article