If the Ford Mustang GT isn't quite powerful enough for you, and the dealer mark-ups on the Mustang Bullitt too rich for your blood, leave it to Shelby American to make the performance muscle-car to fill that gap. Details have started spilling on the 2019 Shelby GT, the latest iteration of the tuned-up, restyled pony car.
Ford has taken the wraps off the Ford Performance 50th Anniversary Mustang Cobra Jet, its drag-racing homage to the original 1968 car. Billed as the fastest production Mustang on the drag strip, the 2018 Mustang Cobra Jet will be a seriously rare sight: Ford is only making 68 examples.
The Ford Bullitt Mustang is already a cool car. We have driven that sweet Mustang and it already has lots of power and performance right from the factory. For those who want more performance and cool Steeda has unveiled the Steve McQueen Edition Bullitt Mustang.
Ford's 2019 Ranger is up on the public configurator, and while there's no Ranger Raptor quite yet to sate our performance truck urges, you can still spec out an impressive midsize pickup. Announced back at the Detroit Auto Show in January, the new Ranger promises F-150-style capabilities but in a more urban-friendly package.
If you ever needed any proof that Ford is serious about competing with the 2019 Ford Ranger, just look at the prices it has confirmed for the mid-size truck. Ford is going to sell the 2019 Ranger XL with a 6-foot box in 4x2 SuperCab configuration for $25,395. This marks the return of affordable trucks in a market where prices have soared in past years.
Ford is planning to cash in on Bronco anticipation with a new, compact SUV that borrows off-road styling cues from the upcoming truck. Unofficially dubbed the "baby Bronco," with its official name yet to be decided, the new small SUV would be targeted at drivers wanting the style but not requiring the actual talents of a full trail beast.
Ford really wants its workforce to be as efficient and safe as possible during their workday. This week the automaker announced that it was rolling out exoskeletons to some workers that must frequently lift objects above their heads. Ford is now showing off other tech that is meant to help it design less physically stressful workstations for line workers.
Ford has revealed a new midsize SUV, the Ford Territory, though drivers in the US will miss out on what looks like an appealing little crossover. Instead, the Territory is aimed squarely at China, as part of what the American automaker is hoping will be a huge - and lucrative - new market.
Ford kicked off the Pony Car revolution back in the early '60s when the very first Mustang rolled off the assembly line. That 1964.5 Mustang VIN 001 was a Wimbledon White convertible with a 3-speed automatic and a 164hp V8 engine under the hood. The 10 millionth car was a very similar 2019 Mustang GT convertible.
Ford has been working on a trial of a slick-looking exoskeleton that is not meant to make its production line employees stronger. This exoskeleton, called the EksoVest, is meant specifically for workers on the assembly line that must reach above their heads repeatedly during their shifts. Ford says that the vest helps workers that must lift the equivalent weight of a bag of flour or watermelon over their heads up to 4,600 times per day.
There's a risk, when you make a movie tie-in like the 2019 Ford Mustang Bullitt, of veering into pastiche. The most memorable part of the classic film, which saw Steve McQueen and his '68 Mustang take on the steep hills of San Francisco in an epic 10+ minute chase scene, holds up fifty years later, even if the city today is a congested nightmare of Ubers and electric scooters with a few autonomous prototypes threading their way through the mess.
All vehicles have blind spots, those areas where a big car can hide on the highway making accidents more likely. Some new vehicles have a blind spot detection system integrated specifically to warn drivers if there is another vehicle lurking in those hard to see areas. Ford will have a blind spot monitoring or BLIS system on the new Ranger truck that monitors more than the truck's own blind spots.