Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2013

A team at Ford Motor Company’s Research and Innovation Center in Dearborn conducted a detailed study of the effect of ethanol blend level in emissions, using a 2006 model Mercury Grand Marquis flexible fuel vehicle (FFV) operating on E0, E10, E20, E30, E40, E55, and E80 on a chassis dynamometer. Engine-out exhaust contains typically 1?3%

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Emissions Ford Exhaust Engine 294

The Truth About Cars

MAY 26, 2023

Throughout its (too long) tenure, the model dropped almost all notions of the increasingly irrelevant Designer Edition models. Ford was well aware in the Eighties how the two-door market (especially at the luxury end) was in flux. Ford felt such a development was required in order for the new coupes to be taken seriously.

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Parts Cars Ford IDEA 52

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 11, 2010

2011 Ford F-150 3.5-liter The 2011 Ford F-150 is receiving an extensive powertrain overhaul, featuring four new truck engines, all coupled to a revised six-speed automatic transmission. Through July, the F-Series accounted for 26% of all Ford, Lincoln and Mercury vehicles sold, and 28.7% of all Ford brand vehicles sold.

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F-150 2011 2010 Ford 210

The Truth About Cars

JULY 21, 2023

As we learned in our last installment , when the Mark VIII debuted for 1993 it was (puzzlingly) in a single trim level, absent any designer name or sportier LSC. Recall the multiple delays that occurred in the FN-10’s original design finalization, which pushed back its debut three years.&

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Parts Light Cars Design 98

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2009

As part of an aggressive deployment strategy for improving fuel efficiency across its product line-up in the near-to medium-term, Ford will offer its first-generation turbocharged, gasoline direct-injection EcoBoost engines ( earlier post ) in 90% of its product lineup by 2013. Planning background. An I3 architecture is also scheduled.

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Fuel Economy Economy Ford Downsizing 186