Posts from ‘Ford’
2020 Ford Police Interceptor
Ford says that one big reason its redesigned 2020 Explorer was switched from a front-drive platform to a rear-drive-based one was to improve front/rear weight balance and thus handling … and that’s largely to appease departments that use the Police Interceptor version for law enforcement.
And a lot of departments use them for law enforcement.
2019 Ford Expedition MAX Platinum in Blue Metallic
2019 Ford Expedition MAX Platinum 4X4
Class: Large SUV
Miles Driven: 239
Fuel Used: 16.3 gallons
Test Drive: 2019 Ford F-150 Raptor
2019 Ford F-150 Raptor SuperCrew in Velocity Blue
2019 Ford F-150 Raptor 4X4 SuperCrew
Class: Large Pickup
Miles Driven: 267
Fuel Used: 18.4 gallons
A trio of 2019 Hyundai Veloster Ns
Like many auto journalists, the editors of Consumer Guide Automotive attend manufacturer-hosted press events to get our first look at the newest vehicles hitting the market—that’s how we produce most of our First Spin test-drive reviews. However, we also attend “smorgasbord-style” press events that allow us brief access to a broad variety of new vehicles from a host of manufacturers, for quick-take impressions and helpful back-to-back comparison drives.
This TV commercial features the unlikely pairing of Ruth Gordon and the Subaru BRAT.
Good news, Matthew McConaughey fans–Tinseltown’s improbable product pitchman is back for another round of Lincoln commercials. The enigmatic star of such films as Mud and Dallas Buyers Club has returned to help the luxury carmaker roll out the new Nautilus midsize crossover.
Cheap Wheels: 1998-2003 Ford ZX2
2001 Ford Escort ZX2
by Don Sikora II
Note: The following story was excerpted from the August 2018 issue of Collectible Automobile magazine.
When Ford redesigned the Escort subcompact for 1997, there was no longer a two-door version. That changed for the 1998 model year with the addition of the Escort ZX2, a new coupe variant with a sportier attitude than its four-door sedan and wagon siblings.
2019 Ford F-150 Lariat Power Stroke in Velocity Blue
2019 Ford F-150 Lariat 4×4 SuperCrew Power Stroke
Class: Large Pickup Truck
Miles Driven: 361
Fuel Used: 13.9 gallons
1985 Buick Electra
Which of the following events was more jarring? The addition of Elmo to the cast of Sesame Street, or the introduction of a front-wheel-drive Buick Electra? Both events, coincidentally, took place in 1985, and both events were met with a certain amount of grumbling.
2019 Ford F-150 with a regular cab and short bed.
It took a recent conversation with an old friend to jog my memory. But the more she talked, the clearer my recollections became. There was a candy bar sold in the mid Seventies called Seven Up, and I had purchased many of them back in the day.
Cars of Cuba: A Gallery
Cuba is something of a paradise for old-car spotters. This 1951 Chevrolet four-door sedan is just one of thousands of vintage automobiles still in faithful use as daily-driver transportation.
My wife Kristin and I will be celebrating our tenth wedding anniversary this year, and we decided that we needed to take an out-of-the-country vacation as part of that celebration. We were looking for somewhere reasonably close, to minimize flight time and the jetlag that usually goes along with it. Kristin is fond of Latin American countries, bird watching, and rugged-outdoors adventuring, and she speaks enough Spanish to get around quite well. Me? I really love old cars. Cuba checks all those boxes, so it was a natural choice.
