Ford's recently announced Boss 302 Mustang is said to be the best handling production Mustang ever built. Ford will build them in limited quantities, which raises the question of how to fairly distribute them among all the Ford dealerships in the United States.
Ford has announced the recall of 33,000 sedan and SUV models, including the Ford Explorer, the Ford Explorer SportTrac, the Ford Fusion, the Mercury Mountaineer and the Mercury Milan. The seat recline mechanism in these models can fail during a rear-impact collision, resulting in potential injury...
The NHTSA has launched an investigation into reports of pedal entrapment in Ford Fusion and Mercury Milan models. The NHTSA has received several complaints and has verified three instances of pedal entrapment, which could lead to unintended acceleration. No accidents have been reported...
Ford and General Motors sales are on the rise. February has consistently been one of the worst automobile sales months in history yet both companies saw huge gains in sales. Sales rose 32% for General Motors and 43% for Ford in comparison to February 2009 sales. Ford even saw "higher sales for...
Universally and instantly recognizable, the President of the United States – the heads of state and government of the world’s largest superpower, the commander–in-chief of the US Armed Forces, the omnipotent and oft-termed “Leader of the Free World” – requires no long-winded or flowery introduction. What does require clarification, however, are the notions of “smartness” and “dumbness”.
In the theatre there are 1,500 cameras rolling at the same time- in the cinema, only one,” as quoted by Orson Welles, the prolific director of the most studied film of all time, Citizen Kane. Within the last century cinema has grown from pioneering silent films into orchestrated musicals, “spaghetti...
Sometimes car names conjure up powerful images, like the Dodge Challenger or the Ford Mustang. Other times, they leave us scratching our heads wondering what the marketing department was thinking. What, exactly, is a Tiguan or a Camry? Here's a list of the worst names ever for cars sold in the...
Paul of TarsusSaul of Tarsus, a.k.a. Paul the Apostle, Paul of Tarsus [?-65 c.e.] was a Hellenistic Jew and student of Gamaliel the Elder who served as enforcer for the Pharisaic Sanhedrin against the apostate Christian sect following the crucifixion of Jesus. Around 33 c.e. he experienced a dramatic...
Driving a car should be confidence inspiring: surrounded by walls of steel, you’re in your own personal fortress, right? Except when those walls of steel are more like sheets of tinfoil, and the slightest impact gets you nice and intimate with the back end of your engine. I'm looking at some of...
Sensationalism in the media is not always intentional. When a celebrity or public figure is elderly or ill, drafts of obituaries are often prepared in advance. While this can be convenient, it can also lead to disaster when these drafts are released prematurely. Other times when the media kills...
