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PRICE cuts of up to £3,400 are being made by Ford in a bid to win more business from company car drivers.

The company has decided to slash prices on its Mondeo, S-Max and Galaxy models.

Nigel Sharp, managing director of Ford UK, says a 15 per cent cut in prices introduced for.

The arrival of the new registration plates in March is to be made permanent.

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Despite its rivals offering huge discounts, Ford’s new-car sales in its main 19 European markets soared to 93,200 units in February 2010, a 1. 8% increase compared with the record in February 2009. With the ending of scrappage schemes, it is expected that western European new-car sales will drop by 1 million to 1.5 million units in 2010. According to industry observers, volume manufacturers will offer heavy discounting. Ingvar Sviggum, Ford of Europe’s sales and marketing chief, said that Ford will not get involved in the price wars, calling such strategies to be “self-defeating in the long term.

The much awaited small car Ford Figo was launched in India on Tuesday, Mar 9. The entry level petrol and diesel versions are priced at Rs 3.5 lakh and Rs 4.48 lakh respectively.

Speaking at the launch, Ford India Executive Director (Marketing, Sales and Service) Nigel Wark said, “For years, we have been seen as offering only premium priced products in India, and that has kept us as a small player operating in only 20 per cent of the market.

With Figo our customers will see a premium product at an affordable price.” The global small car will also be exported from India to other markets. Ford said that South Africa is the initial target.

It looks like today is officially “Make a Deal for Swedish Automakers” Day. In news on the other pending Swedish auto deal, Ford will reportedly get $1.8 billion from Geely for Volvo.

This fire-sale price is significantly lower than the $6.5 billion that Ford paid for Volvo back in ‘99. But all things economic have certainly taken a dive since then.

The reported target date for the sale is February 8. The new report comes from China’s Economic Observer.
 It’s also likely that once the deal has been finalized, Geely will begin producing Volvos in a Beijing-area plant beginning with everyone’s favorite vampire-mobile: the XC60.

Ford swept the North American Car and Truck of the Year awards on Monday to kick off the Detroit auto show. The Fusion hybrid earned 241 votes to beat out the Volkswagen Golf (146) and the Buick LaCrosse (103) in the car category.

The Transit Connect tabulated 213 votes to defeat the Chevrolet Equinox (183) and the Subaru Outback (94) in the truck section. It's just the third time that one automaker has won both categories in the 17-year history of the awards. The finalists were announced in December.

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Ford swept the North American Car and Truck of the Year awards on Monday to kick off the Detroit auto show.

The Fusion hybrid earned 241 votes to beat out the Volkswagen Golf (146) and the Buick LaCrosse (103) in the car category.

The Transit Connect tabulated 213 votes to defeat the Chevrolet Equinox (183) and the Subaru Outback (94) in the truck section.

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She's only 23, but has appeared in some of Hollywood's hottest flicks with top actors such as Catherine Zeta-Jones in the Oscar-wining movie Chicago, Hilary Swank and Richard Gere in Amelia, Lindsay Lohan in Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen and Julie Andrews in Eloise at the Plaza.

Now, actress and singer Brittany Gray is gearing up for The Toxic Avenger musical, based on the 1984 cult classic film by the same name. She'll be driving to the Toronto premiere on Halloween night in a 2000 Ford Focus SE Sport.

It's Gray's first car; she bought it used in 2002, after her debut in Chicago when she was only 15; she named her car Roxie after lead character Roxie Hart. "Chicago was my first professional job. It was such a good gig I ended up buying a car from it! Prior to that, I danced at shows at Wonderland - it didn't even compare to Chicago."

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Next time you're filling up the cavernous fuel tank of the gas-gulping family jalopy, imagine getting 230 miles per gallon. Better yet, how about never buying another gallon of gas? After years of hope and hype, electron-powered driving finally appears to be on the verge of reality.

In the next three years, at least a dozen pure electric or plug-in hybrid cars are slated to hit the market in the U.S. Electricity-driven vehicles from giants such as General Motors Co. and Nissan Motor Co., as well as start-ups like Fisker Automotive Inc. in Irvine, will provide consumers with a wide variety of choices. These new vehicles promise to combine blinding fuel efficiency, radical new technology and futuristic styling that makes the hybrid Toyota Prius look downright staid.

Battery makers and automakers alike are tooling up factories to produce big volumes of electric vehicles. Meanwhile, power utilities and regulators are scrambling to figure out just how big the market will be. "This is happening and it's happening soon," said Mark Duvall, director of electric transportation at the Electric Power Research Institute, an independent, nonprofit research group. "By the end of 2011, consumers will have more choices in vehicles they can plug in than they currently do for hybrids."

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Since early this year, a lot of people have been praising the Ford Motor Company on its successful new hybrid technologies.

The 2010 Ford Fusion is definitely one of the best hybrid cars to buy. However, Ford has always built great cars, so I don't know why this revelation is only happening now.

I have personally owned Buick, Jeep, and cars by Chevrolet. All of them had problems with overheating. A GM mechanic once told me that the weather in Florida was causing the problem, although I still disagree to this day.

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After a brief hiatus, one of the most successful cars in the history of Ford Motor Company will soon be back in showrooms. The restyled 2010 Ford Taurus rolled out of its Chicago assembly plant today. The launch of the next generation Taurus, Ford's flagship sedan, marks what the automaker hopes is a milestone in the company's reinvention. But the launch of the new Taurus is also a test of whether consumers will once again want full-size sedans.

"This really does not look like the old family roadster from the 1980s when Taurus was the top-selling sedan in the United States," said Stephen Spivey, senior auto industry analyst with Frost & Sullivan. "You're looking at a car that's more of a luxury or muscle car."

The car has received positive reviews for its stylish interior featuring gadgets such as the Ford's relatively new SYNC system, a computer that gives drivers hands-free control of their mobile phone, MP3 player, traffic and weather reports.

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