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Wow. Just surprised with this car. It is 1936 Ford Tudor Sedan owned and built by Allegheny Ludlum Steel. It is 1 from only 4 car that exist in the world. These car built as promotional and marketing project. It use V-8 engine (max 85hp) , smooth and quite. Okay just watch the picture below.
Sorry, I can’t share the link of the site that I’ve get this picture because the site has some porn advertisement. I’m not support porn.
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Ford follow the latest technology with touch-screen control system to some its popular models two years ago to attract customer. But the quality is not really make customer happy. The system known as MyFord Touch replaces many of traditional button in a vehicle with touch screens, steering wheel mounted controls and spoek commands. Ford has planned to redesign the technology and tries to resolve complaints about the system crashing or rebooting while the vehicle is being driven. Ford statement said that the upgrade made the touch screens respond to command faster, improved voice recognition capabilites and simplified a design that need to be simple. Customer can upgrade the software directly using a USB flash drive.
Source :- Nytimes
Haven’t used this system coz there’s no Ford car in my garage… Huhuhuhuh
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Ford said that its pace of hybrid technology allow their new Fusion top Toyota Camry hybrid sale this year. Ford has revamped their Fusion to get 47 miles per gallon in city driving while 44 mpg in highway. It is more fuel efficiency than new Camry that went on sale last year that rated 43 mpg city and 39 mpg highway. Ford expect that hybrids, plug in vehicles and models will be solely electriciy by 2020 which get 10 percent to 25 percent of global sales.
Source :- Bloomberg
Yes, the competition will profit consumer. How about others carmake? Don’t want to compete with this hybrid expert?
If you lucky, you will see some of the advertisement banner of Ford Ranger in this blog. Now, Ford has revealed their latest Ford Ranger. The pickup has been introduced in 180 market that being served by three factories – South Africa, Thailand and Argentina. In Malaysia, the new Ranger will be on the road by this mid year. This latest Ranger has raised the benchmark for pick up tryck by it’s look and Cd factor (aerodynamic efficiency) and being hailed as the lowest for a pick up. It also hold bragging rights to other features that draw parallel. The rear doors were made bigger with the B-pillars moved further front and the opening of doors made wider at 47 degrees to match that of the fron ones. It is design was raising the metal portion of the doors that made for smaller window areas.
There’s also user-friendly features such as provisions of charging points inside the passenger cabin and the rear stowage section. The rear panel lid is also made stronger to hold up to 200kg when folded. The more exclusive features are , Hill Hill Descent Control, Hill Launch Assist, Traction Control, Emergency Brake Light, and reversing camera (the lens is located below the Ford badge on the rear panel) with viewing on rear view mirror. There is also the 2.2 Wildtrak but it comes without these items. The vehicle come with three engine variants two new Duratorq TDCI diesel engines of 2.2- and 3.2-litre capacity, and a 2.5-litre petrol unit. The last engine is intended for the Middle East and Nigeria where demand is very high (probably because petrol is very cheap over there). The non-VG turbo unit delivers 125bhp at 3,700rpm and 330Nm of torque from 1,750 to 2,300rpm, while the VG turbo has more at 150bhp at the same peak rev and 375Nm plateauing over a wider rev band from 1,500 to 2,500rpm.
The 3.2-litre engine is a five-cylinder 20-valve unit with variable geometry turbo, mated to the six-speed automatic as a flagship standard. It delivers 200bhp at 3,000rpm and lots of torque at 470Nm from 1,750 to 2,500rpm.There are three transmission systems: five-speed manual, six-speed close ratio manual, and six-speed automatic. It is understood that Ford Malaysia is looking at introducing the 2.2-litre model with five-speed manual for the lower cost factor while the automatic will remain a six-speed model.
Source :- TheStar
Who can beat Ford Ranger for best pickup truck??