This week, Ford finally announced plans for its upcoming electric pickup truck, as well as the name. Ford is reusing the F-150 Lightning badge, which was used on SVT trucks from the 90s. Lightning is a good name for an electric truck from Ford and the new truck will be unveiled later this month on the 19th May. Making the F-150 electric is a major step for Ford, the other big […]
Starting this Wednesday, Ford will start taking orders for the new GT version of the Mustang Mach E all electric SUV. Orders in the US will start this week, whereas here in the UK and Europe Ford is still saying a release date of late 2021. The standard Mach-E has been on sale for a little while in the US and UK and customers have already started to receive cars, […]
A few days ago, Ford stopped selling its at home electric charger, which was launched for the Mustang Mach E electric SUV. Ford spoke to The Verge about the decision and its due to some of them not working correctly, where the box would stop working all together. Ford has decided to stop selling the charger until it can work out what is wrong. Ford has said that there are not […]
Ford has announced today that in March of next year, the Mondeo saloon and estate will be discontinued next year. No replacement for the UK and Europe market planned. In the last couple of years, sales of the Mondeo have dropped significantly with buyers drifting away from estate and saloon cars and into taller SUVs. Ford launched the iconic Mondeo back in 1993 with sales of the car hitting 86,500 […]
Ford is planning on launching a new all electric Transit Custom in 2023, which goes along with its promise to offer a fully electric version or plug in hybrid variant of every model in its commercial product line by the year 2024. To achieve this, both Volkswagen and Ford are partnering up and out of the deal, a fully electric Transit Custom and a fully electric Volkswagen Transporter will hit […]
This week, Ford has put the new Mustang Mach 1 on sale here in the UK, with prices starting at £55,185. The Mach 1 features the same 5.0-litre V8 as the normal Mustang, but now with 454bhp and 390lb ft torque. On the outside, Ford has changed the front end with more efficient aerodynamics, retro lights and new air intakes. As well as the changes to the underneath of the car, […]
The new Ford Mustang Mach-E has gone on sale in the US and UK recently but it has had its first issue already, a small percentage of cars have had some loose bolts on the subframe, it noticed this issue during the extensive QA process. Ford has said that no cars are affected in the EU and UK, but 1,258 cars have an issue in the US and 90 in […]
Since the Ford Mustang was first offered here in the UK, two engine models were offered. The traditional 5.0-litre V8 with 444bhp and a smaller Ecoboost four cylinder model which was the same engine included in the now discontinued Ford Focus RS. That model had 313bhp when it was initially launched in 2015, but over time Ford had to reduce the amount of power it produced due to European emissions […]
Here in the UK, the government is going to be banning the sale of new petrol and diesel cars by the year 2030. Then in 2035 the sale of new hybrids will be banned too, meaning that from the year 2035 the only new cars that’ll be allowed to be sold will be 0% emission, whether that be 100% electric or hydrogen. Ford has announced this week that in the […]
Ford is a bit behind with delivering the new all electric Mustang Mach-E to customers, the new SUV was supposed to start being delivered to customers, last month but some new buyers are having to wait a bit longer due to the company needing to carry out “additional quality checks” with some deliveries being delayed by around a month. Ford has been previously bullish on Tesla, with Darren Palmer who […]
