Each year a new auto index is published that shows which vehicle made in the US has the most domestic parts content. For 2020, most American of American-made vehicle is the Ford Ranger. The Ranger has 70 percent of its parts content sourced within the US and Canada. The second-place car comes from GM and is the Camaro with an automatic transmission with 66 percent domestic parts content.
When Ford announced the 2021 Bronco, there was very little to be disappointed about. However, one thing that Ford wasn't going to allow Bronco buyers to do was pair the Sasquatch package that adds larger tires with the manual transmission. This bothered some Bronco fans as Jeep will allow buyers to get the Rubicon package with a manual transmission.
The all-electric Ford F-150 may still be a couple of years out, but that isn't stopping the automaker from starting an early pitch as to why it's EV pickup is the one you should plan on buying. Set to land in a growing segment come mid-2022, the all-electric F-150 won't be the first electrified model - that's the 2021 F-150 PowerBoost Hybrid - but it will be the first to ditch an internal combustion engine altogether.
At times Ford produces cool vehicles that it only offers overseas, leaving its home market in the US left out. The most notable case of this is that Americans can't buy the very cool Ranger Raptor pickup. Ford has now announced the Ranger Tremor for 2021. This is an off-road-focused package that adds improved suspension and other details to the mid-sized Ford Ranger and adds $4290 to the sticker price.
Mil-Spec Automotive is a company that has been taking trucks and SUVs and souping them up for a long time. The company made its name modifying the long discontinued Hummer SUV. In recent years it's turned its hand to modifying the best-selling Ford F-150 pickup.
We've seen Ken Block behind the wheel of some incredible machines over the years. One thing that those vehicles have in common is that they are all powered by high horsepower internal combustion engines. The video at the bottom of the story shows Block testing and hooning the world's first all-electric rallycross car.
Electric vehicle fans are waiting in anticipation for their new all-electric Mustang Mach-E vehicles to arrive. Depending on which version of the electric car fans preordered, they could still be waiting a long time before the vehicle turns up. However, Ford is letting Mach-E customers begin their personalization of the EV using the new Remote Vehicle Setup app from a smartphone or computer.
Last April, Ford unleashed the Mustang Cobra Jet 1400, an all-electric tribute to the original Cobra Jet drag machine of the 1960s. And now, the Mustang Cobra Jet 1400 will make its first public appearance this weekend at the NHRA U.S. Nationals.
Off-road vehicle fans are very excited about the new Ford Bronco. The vehicle will give those who would typically purchase a Jeep Wrangler, another option that is highly capable off-road. One of the major appeals of the Jeep Wrangler is that the vehicle is infinitely customizable.
The all-new Ford Bronco is official, and we know exactly what it looks like and the options it will offer. Before we knew that the first glimpse we had a production vehicle was in the Bronco R prototype that was raced in Baja. Ford's Chief Product Development & Purchasing Officer, Hau Thai-Tang, recently talked about the possibility of Ford producing the Bronco R as a turnkey racing vehicle.
Ford has a new concept supercar to show off, but rather than develop the Team Fordzilla P1 in locked-door secrecy, the automaker threw open the decision process to gamers. Revealed at Gamescom 2020 today, and on track for a life-size scale model by the end of the year, the concept coupe may not be headed to production any time soon, but that doesn't mean you won't be able to take it for a spin.
Ford is testing an automated parking garage that would allow vehicles to be sent off to park themselves, potentially paving the way to ease self-driving technologies into the mainstream. The system, which Ford co-developed with Bosch, allows Escape SUVs to navigate themselves through a specially-equipped parking structure, and then be remotely summoned again via an app.