UK police forces are to start trials of the new, all electric Ford Mustang Mach-E. The concept car was unveiled by Ford today at the Emergency Services Show in Birmingham. According to Ford, a number of forces around the country had put in requests to start looking at the all electric SUV from Ford. Seven police forces in the UK, the Metropolitan Police, Sussex, Surrey, South Wales, Dyfed-Powys, Devon and Cornwall, […]
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Ford announces UK prices for all electric E-Transit
Ford announced the new all-electric E-Transit at the end of 2020 with a scheduled launch data of spring 2022. Like other large electric vans on sale at the moment, the E-Transit is quite pricey, at £42,695 + VAT which is actually less than the Fiat e-Ducato, Mercedes eSprinter and others. The E-Transit is based on the current generation of the van, with a 67kWh battery pack, with the choice of […]
Ford announces new limited edition Ford GT Heritage
Ford has recently announced a new limited run version of the Ford GT with the ‘GT ’64 Prototype Heritage Edition’ which was revealed at the Monterey Car Week last week. The new limited run model doesn’t yet have a price but will go up for order starting in January 2022, for approved GT customers only. The Heritage Edition pays tribute to the year that Ford won Le Mans, beating Ferrari […]
Ford has delayed Mach-E orders, due to chip shortages
Ford has delayed the shipments of its latest electric car, the Mustang Mach-E. Chip shortages are affecting a lot of different industries, the new M1 iMac still has around a month of lead time between ordering and getting it and modern cars are now essentially computers on wheels and need a lot of chips and Ford is having a hard time getting them. Ford has informed customers waiting that it […]
Mustang Mach-E GT now available to order in the UK
Ford took the GT version of the new Mustang Mach-E to the Goodwood Festival of Speed this year for its first public appearance in the UK with orders now available and deliveries starting later this year. Prices for the regular Mach-E start at £40,270 with the high performance GT model starting at £67,225. The Mach-E GT was announced last December and has already been available for order since April this […]
Ford could launch a smaller Maverick based EV
Ford announced the new entry level truck, the Maverick last week which is the company’s new smaller pickup, sitting on the same platform as the Bronco Sport and in size, sitting below the the Ranger. The company is looking to expand its rollout of electric vehicles and is aiming to have 40% all electric sales by 2030 in the US. However, while Ford is expanding into all electric pickup trucks […]
Ford now has 100,000 pre-orders for the all electric F-150 Lightning
Ford put its new all electric truck, the F-150 Lighting up for pre-order around three weeks ago and the company gained 44,500 pre-orders in 48 hours. By comparison, when the Cybertruck went up for pre-order, Tesla had 250,000 orders in the first five days. Jim Farley, CEO of Ford spoke to the New York Times this week about the F-150 Lightning and said that the pre-orders had already hit 100,000. […]
Ford introduces new Maverick truck in the US
Ford has announced the new Ford Maverick pickup truck, reusing a name once used in the 1970s for a small car and then here in Europe for a SUV that was based on a Nissan Terran. This all new truck however joins Fords expanding pickup truck line up at the entry level model, below the Ranger. The Ford Maverick will only be available in the US and it’s the first […]
The new Ford F-150 Lightning Pro is aimed at the commercial market
Ford launched the new F-150 Lightning last week, and all new, all electric version of the best selling pickup in America. This new Pro version is aimed squarely at the commercial market, it’ll go on sale at the same time as the consumer version next year and Ford hasn’t added that much over the consumer version. The only big difference is the software, Ford has actually integrated its own commercial telematics software […]
Ford has already had 44,500 pre-orders for the new F-150 Lightning in under 48 hours
Despite going up for pre-order around 48 hours ago, Ford has already had more than 44,500 pre-orders for the new all electric F-150 Lightning pickup truck, with each customer needing to put down $100. The truck comes in at $39,974 (£28,200), has 563bhp, will do between 230 and 300 miles on a charge and can even power your house during an outage. More than 44,500 reservations in less than 48 […]