Industry Report: Sept. 25, 2006
TheCarConnection.com - 19 hours ago… Cab versions will get vinyl flooring and minimal equipment to make them ideal for fleet use, similar to trucks sold by Chevrolet and Dodge and Ford for the …

Ford cutbacks may mean good news to local dealerships
Kingsport Times News, TN - 3 hours ago… Cooper Standard Plant Manager Scott Keys said Ford makes the F-series trucks at three plants - in Norfolk, Va., Kansas City, Mo., and Dearborn, Mich. …

DeVos’ run puts Amway in spotlight
Detroit Free Press, United States - 5 hours ago… areas — producing, packing bottles, loading skids, loading trucks, driving trucks, working in … more than 1 in 4 manufacturing jobs since 2000, as Ford Motor Co …

THE GREAT CORN RUSH
Minneapolis Star Tribune (subscription), MN - 14 hours ago… Most mornings, trucks piled high with corn line up in front of the ethanol plant in … Henry Ford used the fuel in early versions of his Model T. Abraham Lincoln …

Crawford Preps for Vegas
TruckSeries.com, PA - 15 hours ago… The team applied several set up packages to their Circle Bar Ford F-150 and with … Bar team bested the fast time for the morning practice session for all trucks. …

Auto industry’s Big 3 under gun
Baltimore Sun, United States - 1 hour ago… GM, Ford and DaimlerChrysler have all produced significantly fewer cars than light trucks and SUVs in recent years, in part because the heavier gas-guzzling …

Bobby East repeats as top rookie starter in trucks
Rotoworld.com - 11 hours agoEast’s lap of 177.356 mph in the #21 State Fair Corn Dogs/Edy’s Dibs Ford F-150 was 2nd fastest, ahead of the rest of the 2006 ROTY contenders for Saturday’s …

MARK PHELAN | BEHIND THE WHEEL: Just cross out crossover label
Detroit Free Press, United States - 4 hours ago… A flood of new unibody vehicles that look like trucks hit the market this year. They include the Acura MDX, Dodge Caliber, Ford Edge, GMC Acadia, Honda CR-V …

TOM WALSH: GM, Ford CEOs strapped in for a long and bumpy ride
Detroit Free Press, United States - 4 hours ago… But let’s assume that the current GM and Ford CEOs will be around for a while … GM has lowered incentives and boosted warranty coverage on its cars and trucks. …

Can Ford’s New Management Rescue the Automaker?
AXcess News, NV - 10 hours ago… Others think that stylish light trucks could go a long way to gaining American buyers once again after Ford’s popular F-series has shown such poor results this …

FedEx hunts efficiency while re-engineering long-haul freight arm
commercialappeal.com (subscription), TN - 6 hours ago… If he can figure out a way to get loaded trucks from Memphis to Miami in a … are not the same folks that occasionally sell a bumper for a ‘57 Ford,” Duncan says …

Ford to get incentives to stay
Kentucky.com, KY - 23 hours ago… Ford F-Series Super Duty trucks are made at the Louisville Truck Plant in East Jefferson County. Together, they employed about 9,500 people last year. …

9/11 cash beefs up region
Cincinnati Enquirer, OH - 2 hours ago… They can drive there in six armored personnel carriers, nine all-terrain vehicles, 25 Ford trucks and five new command vehicles loaded with high-tech computer …

Atlanta Motor Speedway s Friday Night Drags Ends 2006 Season …
WhoWon.com, NE - 23 hours ago… s winners: Domestic: Jason Haney (Conyers, Ga.) in a Ford Mustang. Trucks: Bob Fergison (Sharpsburg, Ga.) in 1977 Chevy Luv. Pro: John …

Santa bringing finished freeways for ‘07 holidays
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin, CA - 5 hours ago… freeway are at each end of the 2.5-mile project between Orange and Ford streets. … can stand up to decades and decades of millions of cars and trucks passing over …

Economy grows, but wages falter
Houston Chronicle, United States - 6 hours ago… At the same time, Ford’s gas-slurping trucks may be less appealing to drivers who, faced with stagnant wages and higher gasoline prices, are looking for more …

LJ ordinance would some ban large vehicles
Brazosport Facts (subscription), TX - 10 hours ago… JACKSON Early weekday mornings, Larry Strauther cranks up his Ford Aeromax 10 … types of buses, heavy construction equipment and delivery trucks except when …

Farmers’ Day shows ‘the old way’
Durham Herald Sun, NC - 8 hours ago… Myers said. Visitors could also examine rows of antique tractors and pickup trucks, like a red Ford F-100 from 1956. If they got …

GM strong, Toyota gains sales
Kerala Online, India - 23 hours ago… America produced 465,000 vehicles, including 179,000 cars and 286,000 trucks, down 5 … Meanwhile Ford’s sales decreased 11.6% and sales by Daimler Chrysler and …

Mercury Mountaineer: Massaged to tow and haul like a truck
Lowell Sun, MA - 1 hour ago… It was our first time in the new Mountaineer, but we had driven a Ford Explorer just two weeks previous, and the two trucks share platforms. …

Community Calendar
Livingston Daily, MI - 1 hour ago… Guest Mary Ellen Daniel from Henry Ford Visual Rehabilitation Research Center. … Fire trucks, police cruisers and ambulance vehicles/workers. …

Toyota and General Motors capitalizing from fuel-efficient cars
The Money Times, India - 18 hours agoWith the ever rising oil prices, Ford had to cut down its output in order to … GM manufactures its cars and trucks in 33 countries and has the largest national …

Test Drive: Toyota Camry Hybrid shows Detroit how it ought to be …
Texarkana Gazette, TX - 17 hours ago… month he announced massive layoffs and plant closings as part of Ford s Way … the annual capacity to build about 2 million cars and trucks, 1.44 million …

Get Gephardt: Massive Ford Recall
KUTV - (KUTV) A massive recall that could affect the owners of more than a million Fords. Bill Gephardt is here to show us the fiery danger. One-point-two million to be exact all Ford trucks, SUV’s and vans. This recall comes after a two-year federal

Friday, July 14
MSNBC - Now, if you ve been going through American Idol withdrawals, good news. It s that time of year again. Yes, less than two months after Taylor Hicks became the new American Idol, and I think this guy s selling, what, Ford trucks

Shocking Development at Crandon Raceway
Who Won - Skyjacker Suspensions joins several other prominent sponsors at Crandon with on-track signage including American Axle, BorgWarner, Ford Trucks, Forest County Potawatomi, Johnsonville, Lucas Oil, MasterCraft Race Products, Precision Gear and Toyo Tires

1.2 million Ford trucks, vans, SUVs recalled
Memphis Commercial Appeal - WASHINGTON — Ford Motor Co., already reeling from business setbacks, recalled 1.2 million trucks, sport utility vehicles and vans Thursday amid concerns about potential engine fires. Ford said the recall was tied to the speed control deactivation

Only 40 years ago trucks were trucks
Washington Times - From 1965 to 1966 Ford trucks carried over the same chassis, body and front-end sheet metal. The grille was slightly different between the two years. Mr. Neel says his truck was titled as a 1965 Ford but the serial number clearly indicated that it

Ford Recalls 1.2 Million Trucks, SUVs, Vans
Smart Money - The latest move to fix potential engine fires follows one of the biggest recalls in U.S. history last September, which involved about 3.8 million Ford trucks from the 1994-2002 model years, including the F-150 pickup, Expedition, Bronco and Lincoln

Ford recalls 1.2 million vehicles due to switches
Detroit Free Press - Ford Motor Co . announced Thursday a recall of 1.2 million Ford trucks, vans and sport-utility vehicles to fix cruise control switches that can overheat and catch fire. Federal officials say the switches were defective in about 6.7 million vehicles.

Antique cars cruise into Warren
Warren Times-Observer - That was because there was a waiting list for Ford trucks at the time. After he bought the car, he cut the back end off and installed a truck bed, Acres said. The car, which has since been changed back to its original configuration, was used to haul

Remodeled Range Rover is a posh yet tough ride
San Francisco Chronicle,  USA - 2 hours ago… dropping $100,000-plus on artillery pieces like the Hummer H1, trucks entirely unsuited for … only Mini and dispatching Land Rover to Sir William Ford of Motown. …

No more stoppin’ here
Delmarva Daily Times, MD - 3 hours ago… “Mr. Ray Ford always gets two … “People expect us to be open on time. At the crack of dawn, they sit in their cars and trucks and wait for us to open,” she said. …

Toyota Drove to the Bank in a Ford
New York Times, United States - 12 hours ago… Henry Ford II at Ford and Lee A. Iacocca at Chrysler led the calls for the … 200,000 sales a year, or about a quarter the number of cars and trucks that Toyota …

Automakers to connect with iPod
Milwaukee Business Journal, WI - 2 hours ago… Dearborn, Mich.-based Ford (NYSE: F) manufactures F-250 and F-350 trucks at Louisville’s Kentucky Truck Plant on Chamberlain Lane and Ford Explorer and Mercury …

Valley business week in review
The Desert Sun, CA - 1 hour ago… the past five months were down just slightly, as 10,338 cars and trucks were sold … Kevin Young, sales manager at Fiesta Ford Lincoln Mercury in Indio, also said …

Japan autos produced abroad exceed vehicles made at home
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (subscription), AR - 2 hours ago… than in the United States, where sales figures for July released last week revealed that for the first time Toyota sold more cars and light trucks than Ford. …

Imports on track to outsell domestic motor vehicles this year
Lincoln Journal Star, NE - 7 hours ago… Ford s sales were off nearly as much 35.3 percent and GM s fell by 22.2 percent. Industrywide, July sales of 1.49 million cars and trucks kept 2006 …

Truckin’ around Ross County
Chillico Gazette - Holbrook isn’t alone in his love and loyalty to Ford trucks. When Leroy Chaney has to get his wife Alice and her stock of dolls to a doll show, he relies on his 1993 Ford F-150 that has logged almost 390,000 miles. “It runs as good now as when it was

NEW CARS: Reports From Around The World
Popular Mechanics - FORD SUPER CHIEF Big, brazen but still sleek, the Super Chief is the basic outline of future Ford trucks.

Chambers to open dealership in Quincy
Patriot Ledger - Chambers, who runs more than 30 dealerships in Massachusetts and Rhode Island, said he will likely sell Ford trucks at the new Quincy location. He said the Quincy site would work well because his nearby Ford dealership in Braintree is running out of

Scott Taylor Bark River summary
Motorsport.com - On lap 5 the two Ford trucks passed the leader, #29 Steve Barlow. On the same lap Scott and the #7 passed each other back and forth for the lead. On lap 6 as Scott was in second place when he came to the new jump section of the track and went end

Eat, Drink and Be Miriam
Fayetteville Observer - Today, all that remains is one cinder block building with the concession windows cemented over and a Ford trucks sign attached to the flat roof. If you listen real close, Cornelius McKenzie said, it s still possible to hear the echo from those

Baker High School Honors and Awards 2006
Baker City Herald - Seniors Jamie Moon and Trevor Taylor were honored as the Baker High School Class of 2006 outstanding senior girl and senior boy during the annual honors and awards program May 25. Taylor also was named the outstanding senior boy athlete. Katelyn

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Will Ford’s following falter in northland?
St. Paul Pioneer Press - Even as sales flagged elsewhere, Minnesota remained Ford Truck Territory. For decades, Ford pickups have enjoyed fierce brand loyalty in Minnesota, bolstered by the mighty Ford plant on the Mississippi River, thousands of Ford workers and the network

Lucas Oil Inks Multi-Year Sponsor Deal at Crandon Raceway
Who Won - CRANDON, Wis. — Lucas Oil, long term sponsor of Championship Off-Road Racing in the U.S., has expanded its sponsorship with Crandon International Off-Road Raceway. Lucas Oil, based in Corona, CA, is one of the country’s leading producers and

Dad of all kinda share a day, a role
Bradford Era - Father s Day means different things to different people. Dads may view it as a day of relaxation. Children may view it as a day to show appreciation. Businesses may view it in terms of money but, regardless, there are many dads who deserve a day of

Toby Keith one busy hombre
Cumberland Times-News - Toby Keith has so many projects in the hopper, that a Christmas album he’s just finished recording might not be released until the 2007 holiday season. The collection will contain two discs as planned now, one with secular songs and the other with

Can Engine Make Gas Obsolete?
Wired News - 5 hours ago… engines to replace those used in generators and in forklift trucks, airline ground equipment, irrigation pumps, tractors and buses. Ford, General Motors and …

Career stalls for Princeton man, but passion keeps cruisin’
Evansville Courier & Press (subscription), IN - 6 hours ago… There’s an under-construction 1970 El Camino and an ancient Ford he’s converting into a … then there is a brightly polished pair of late 1940s trucks he’s shown …

Time to toll?
Mid Columbia Tri City Herald, WA - 23 minutes ago… because no politician is going to stand up and support it,” Ford said last … it open year round, improve safety and facilitate the movement of trucks through the …

Second Week in a Row for Lakeville Speedway Rain-Out
WhoWon.com, NE - 22 hours ago… The next week will be the Donley Ford Lincoln Mercury 5th annual Old Timers night … Crown Series for the Super Stocks, Mini Stocks and the Mini Trucks as each …

Businesses bounce back
Jackson Clarion Ledger, MS - 2 hours ago… to wholesale customers, which before Katrina meant running two trucks from 5:30 … Fred Jones Cos., which distributes parts to Ford dealerships, moved to Hawkins …

Man seriously hurt in major TCH crash
Cowichan Valley News Leader, Canada - 20 hours agoThe collision of two pick-up trucks on the Trans-Canada Highway near Cowichan Bay Road … before 7 pm, a 74-year-old Duncan man driving a 2004 Ford tried to cross …

Bourdais shatters his own record
Sun-Sentinel.com, FL - 5 hours ago… TRUCKS: Kyle Busch made it 2 for 2 at Lowe’s Motor Speedway in Concord, NC, by driving to an easy victory in the Craftsman Truck Series late Friday. …

Thousands rally on ‘Day Without Immigrants’
North County Times - The protests, part of what some organizers called “A Day Without Immigrants” and “The Great American Boycott,” were peaceful during the day. But as night fell, the protests grew more disruptive in parts of North County. In Vista, an estimated 1,000

Douglas Motorsports Pahrump 250 summary
Motorsport.com - Spring has arrived in the Nevada desert, which means it time for the Best in the Desert, Terrible’s Town 250 in Pahrump, Nevada. This point-to-point event started in Johnnie, NV, then headed north along Interstate 95, then headed south just before

Ford to shutter Norfolk truck plant
Richmond Times-Dispatch - NORFOLK — Ford Motor Co. announced today that it will close its Norfolk truck plant, where more than 2,000 are employed, in 2008. Employees at the plant that produces the popular F-150 pickup truck were being told the news at a meeting this

GM, Ford lose sales ground; Toyota, Honda gain
Investors Business Daily - SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — General Motors Corp. and Ford Motor Co. continued to lose traction in April, reporting overall vehicle sales Tuesday that showed they’d given up more market share to Japanese rivals despite glimmers of sales improvement

Norfolk plant to close
Richmond Times-Dispatch - NORFOLK — Ford Motor Co. yesterday announced plans to close a Norfolk truck-assembly plant that has more than 2,400 employees and a local history stretching back 81 years. The decision to idle the plant in 2008 followed closure announcements that

A paradise for stars
Turkish Daily News - Antalya has hosted the Golden Orange Film Festival, showing the Turkish “Hollywood’s” films produced at Yesilcam, Istanbul, for the last 35 years, and latterly the festival has expanded to include international and Mediterranean films as competition

PNNL aids homeland security
Tri-City Herald - Drive-bys have a new meaning for the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, thanks to technology perfected by the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland. Mobile radiation portal monitors mounted on Ford trucks are the latest tool offered to

Ford turns to Mazda designer for edgy feel
Detroit News - Ford Motor Co. is shaking up its North American design studio, hoping to add a little “Zoom-Zoom” spirit with the appointment of Mazda Motor Corp.’s design chief to the post of design director for domestic cars. Mazda’s Moray Callum will replace

Haldeman Ford sets pace for New Egypt SS Sprints
Who Won - NEW EGYPT, N.J. — Haldeman Ford, the Hamilton, NJ, car dealership that has supplied the pace truck at New Egypt Speedway the past seven years, will once again be the title sponsor of the Ocean County race track’s growing SS Sprint division, an

PUtting rust to rest
San Jose Mercury News - WASHINGTON - Victory is at hand in the auto industry’s 30-year war against rust. No more Ford trucks with tailgates that look like decayed teeth. No more Toyota Celicas with see-through wheel wells. No more VWs with college cafeteria trays covering

Chesterfield company makes devices that help keep ports safe
Macomb Daily - A Macomb County company leads the way in providing security at the nation’s seaports, protecting against potential terrorist attacks using a nuclear device or “dirty bomb.” Burtek Inc. of Chesterfield Township unveiled Monday its radiation detection

Dealerships: Big Vehicles Still Selling Well
WCCO - (WCCO) Even with gas prices, people are still buying big vehicles like SUVs. In the fourth quarter, trucks and SUVs made up 25 percent of new vehicle sales, and cars with at least a V6-engine make up about 40 percent of new vehicles sold. At Boyer

Ford to shutter Norfolk truck plant
Richmond Times-Dispatch - NORFOLK — Ford Motor Co. announced today that it will close its Norfolk truck plant, where more than 2,000 are employed, in 2008. Employees at the plant that produces the popular F-150 pickup truck were being told the news at a meeting this

A blow
Hampton Roads Daily Press - Who cares? It’s in Norfolk. That might have been the attitude 25 years ago. Twenty-five years ago, if Ford had closed its plant in Norfolk, it’s a safe bet that the story wouldn’t have dominated Page 1 of the Daily Press on the Peninsula. Who cares