Posts Tagged ‘mclaren’

Ford delays 340-hp Fusion GT to 2012

Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008
Motor Trend is reporting in its October 2008 issue that Ford has decided to delay the Fusion GT, an EcoBoost-powered super sedan producing upwards of 340 horsepower. The original plan was to have the GT model arrive at the tail end of the current Fusion's product cycle as a low-volume, super niche s......

Ford to retool U.S. plant for European vehicles

Monday, July 21st, 2008
We wrote about it earlier, just as a rumor, but it looks like an announcement is imminent: the Wall Street Journal says that Ford is going to make European cars on this side of the pond. However, it isn't merely North American plants that will be changed over, but American plants. The Journal doesn'......

Rumormill: Ford converting North American factories to make European cars

Sunday, June 15th, 2008
For reasons that everyone is aware of, American carmakers have been shutting down and idling plants that make trucks and SUVs. According to AutoSavant, however, Ford is not going to simply shutter plants, it is going to retool some of them to build its Euro-market cars for the American market.If thi......

Desperate times: Ford will retool truck plants to build cars

Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
Ford's recent announcement to reduce its white collar workforce costs by 15% shows that Mulally & Co. are dead-serious about turning around the Dearborn, MI automaker. The newest twist in the FoMoCo saga takes the situation from serious to near desperate, as plant managers and union leadership a......

Rumormill: Ford working on four-door Mondeo coupe

Monday, June 9th, 2008
It seems most car buyers today have decided that the aesthetic advantages of the two-door coupe body style are not worth the ergonomic hassles of getting in and out of the back seat. To remedy that issue, most every automaker has or very soon will introduce a car with a coupe-like profile and extra ......

Ford Europe launches new top shelf Mondeo - the Titanium X Sport

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
Click above for high-res gallery of the Ford Mondeo Titanium X SportThe Ford Mondeo has been a well received car in Europe, and Ford says that there's so much demand for high-end models that it's decided to introduce a new top-of-the-line version called the Titanium X Sport. Dubbed "the most desirab......

Job Listing of the Day: Prodrive Chairman’s Estate Manager

Friday, April 25th, 2008
So you want to work for Prodrive/Aston Martin, but you don't quite have the qualifications to be a bodyshell fabricator or a chief engineer? Then perhaps you have what it takes to fill the position of estate manager for the chairman of the company. You won't need to know your way around a sheet of c......

Renault makes Alonso highest-paid driver, will earn $2.6 mil per race

Wednesday, March 12th, 2008
Back in the 2005 and 2006 Formula One seasons, Fernando Alonso thoroughly trounced Michael Schumacher for the title. Since then, however, Alonso hasn't beaten many of Schumacher's records, but the two-time champion can now rest easy – in a big, solid gold chair – knowing that he's finally making......

FIA launches “Racing Against Racism” campaign

Friday, December 7th, 2007
Following the recent racist incident targeting Lewis Hamilton at an F1 test session in Spain, the FIA has announced the creation of a new anti-racism campaign. Called "Racing Against Racism", the effort will launch, appropriately, at the upcoming Spanish Grand Prix, sending local motorsport organize......

Williams FW30 breaks through the fog

Monday, November 12th, 2007
click above for more high-res pics of the Williams FW30 Things have gotten a bit foggy over at Williams F1. The once front-running, championship-winning grand prix team has landed on tough times. This year the team opted against holding a glitzy unveiling event like those held recently by Ferrari, M......