Small Car Supremacy Imminent

Small Car Supremacy Imminent

After covering Ford CEO Jim Farley saying America needs to fall back in love with smaller cars despite running a company that killed the Fiesta, Focus, Fusion and Taurus, we decided to take a look at the sales figures of the smallest, cheapest cars still on the market. It is July, after all, meaning most … Read more

Ford Recalls Over 550,000 F-150s Because They Can Shift Into First Gear At Speed

Ford Recalls Over 550,000 F-150s Because They Can Shift Into First Gear At Speed

Photo: Michael Rivera / Wikimedia Commons Ford is recalling over 550,000 2014 model-year F-150 pickup trucks for a major fault. The pickup’s transmission can unexpectedly downshift into first gear at any speed. Drivers are unsurprisingly losing control of their F-150s when the sudden downshift strikes. The recall resulted from an investigation launched by the National … Read more

Ford Slashes F-150 Lightning Leases By $15,000 As It Suffers From EV Sales Lag

Ford Slashes F-150 Lightning Leases By ,000 As It Suffers From EV Sales Lag

If you’re looking for an electric truck that still feels like a regular pickup, you’re going to have a hard time beating the Ford F-150 Lightning. The Tesla Cybertruck may get all the attention, but if you’re actually going to be hauling anything, for example, you’ll have a far easier time reaching into the Lightning’s … Read more

2024 Ford F-150 Raptor R Fulfills My Childhood Gamer Fantasies

2024 Ford F-150 Raptor R Fulfills My Childhood Gamer Fantasies

Back in the early 2000s when I was a wee lad, I was obsessed with the 4×4 Evolution video game series, which I played on our Mac computer. In both games you would purchase, upgrade and race basically every American and Japanese truck and SUV on the market on fictional off-road tracks in all sorts … Read more

2024 Ford F-150 Tremor Makes Off-Roading In A Truck Feel Easy

2024 Ford F-150 Tremor Makes Off-Roading In A Truck Feel Easy

Now more than ever before, automakers are catering to customers that genuinely want to go overlanding or off-roading (or at least look like they do), introducing trim levels of everything from hatchbacks and minivans to pickups and large SUVs that are designed to be better in the rough stuff. Reintroduced as a trim level with … Read more

Ford Made A Ranger SHO 4 Years Before The SVT Lightning

Ford Made A Ranger SHO 4 Years Before The SVT Lightning

We used to be a proper country. A country where performance pickups like the Chevy 454 SS, Toyota Tacoma X-Runner and GMC Syclone roamed the streets. Performance pickups still exist today like the Ram TRX and Ford F-150 and Ranger Raptor models, but they’re off-road focused. Things might have been different had Ford been first … Read more

At $4,800, Is This 1997 Ford Expedition Worth The Trek?

At ,800, Is This 1997 Ford Expedition Worth The Trek?

Today’s Nice Price or No Dice Expedition shows what happened when Ford took its winning Explorer formula and doubled the ingredients. We’ll have to decide if this old-school SUV’s price still makes it large and in charge. 2023 Mercedes-Benz EQS 580 4MATIC SUV | First Drive Being the youngest in the family usually means getting … Read more

Ford Slashes F-150 Lightning Price To Reignite Sales

Ford Slashes F-150 Lightning Price To Reignite Sales

Good morning! It’s Friday, April 12, 2024, and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know. Ford Is Gearing Up To Make A Lot More F-150 Lightnings 1st Gear: Ford Cuts Up To $5,500 … Read more

These Cars Have Had The Biggest Sales Increases In 2024 So Far

These Cars Have Had The Biggest Sales Increases In 2024 So Far

Photo: Hyundai When quarterly sales figures come out, it’s common to focus on the cars that sold the most in the previous three months. That’s certainly interesting on some level, but at the same time, most of the top sellers are pretty consistent. Presumably, the Ford F-Series and Chevrolet Silverado will take the top two … Read more

People Want EVs They Can Actually Afford, Not Massive Expensive Pickups

People Want EVs They Can Actually Afford, Not Massive Expensive Pickups

Two facts about the automotive world are immutable: Americans love pickup trucks, and the future requires drastic reductions in the environmental harm caused by passenger cars. Automakers, seeing these two truths, slapped them together and started selling massive, hulking EV pickups with six-figure price tags. Turns out, that’s not what customers want. Tesla’s Cybertruck Has … Read more