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    Report: Ford to cease Australian automaking operations after 90 years
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    Ford began manufacturing cars in Australia in 1925 with the Model T. In 2016, Ford will stop manufacturing cars Down Under, including the Falcon and the Territory SUV. Ford Australia CEO Bob Graziano has reportedly confirmed the closure of the company's Broadmeadows assembly plant and the Geelong engine plant, both in the state of Victoria. There will be ...

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    Exclusive: DaSilva Racing track day invades Toronto Motorsports Park
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    DaSilva Racing has always been synonymous with fast Ford's especially when it comes to Mustangs in particular. Joe DaSilva was the former 2009 crown holder in the venerable, yet, now extinct NMRA Pro 5.0 series and is considered the authority in Mustang performance, building and tuning. So with great delight, we were asked to attend their recent track ...

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    Video: The big dune jump and the damage done [w/video]
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    The Silver Lake sand dunes see their fair share of well-built trophy trucks executing impressive jumps. Drivers build insane pieces of machinery for the express purpose of sailing through the air like mad men and women. Mike Higgins is no stranger to the area. His heavily modified Ford trophy truck has gone flying through the sky on more than one ...

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    Video: Hennessey completes first VelociRaptor SUV conversion [w/video]
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    Start with a Ford F-150 SVT Raptor as your base vehicle for modification, and chances are high that you'll end up with something pretty cool. Now, have those modifications done by professional lunatics Hennessey Performance, make the project turning the pickup into an ultra-long SUV, and the result stands a real chance of being a total kick in the ass. ...

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    Quick Spin: 2014 Ford Mustang GT
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    I was more than a year removed from my last experience with the Mustang GT and its delicious 5.0 V8 when this new 2014 example rolled up to my driveway recently. Good weather and a planned road trip meant that I would get plenty of seat time in this conservatively specified example, too. In total, I logged about 643 kilometres (400 miles) in a week of ...

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    Featured: eBay Find of the Day: 1970 Ford Torino King Cobra prototype
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    Over the last decade or so, competition in NASCAR has led to some pretty funky looking racecars. And when the sport was still up and coming, the tight competition actually led to some interesting production cars. The Dodge Charger Daytona and Plymouth Superbird are perhaps the most well-known cars of the sport's "aero wars" era but the Ford Torino King ...

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    Report: Ford rethinking vehicle launch strategy
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    With a new boss at the helm, Ford is looking at new ways to improve its vehicle launches in North America to prevent recent issues that have popped up with models like the Lincoln MKZ, Ford Escape and Ford Fusion. Speaking with Automotive News, Ford's new president of the Americas, Joe Hinrichs, revealed a few ways the automaker plans to avoid early build ...

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    Report: Ford, Chyrsler and GM gain market share simultaneously for first time in 20 years
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    While monthly sales figures might be an easy way of tracking the progression of the auto industry and individual automakers, looking at market share might be more indicative of how each company is actually standing up against its competitors. For the Detroit Three automakers, they have collectively lost almost 30 per cent of the market over the last 20 ...

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    Video: 'Born of a Blue Sky' brings the Amelia Island Concours to you
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    The Amelia Island Concours d'Elegance has more clout every year and is getting a reputation as Pebble Beach minus the madness. Held in March this year, it celebrated Ducati and the 50-year anniversaries of Lamborghini, the Corvette Sting Ray, Porsche 911 and the Ford GT40. Justin Lapriore was there, and seemingly everywhere, getting footage of the ...

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    Video: How the Ford F-150 SVT Raptor became a reality [w/video]
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    The camouflaged Ford F-150 SVT Raptor prototype, captured above blazing its way across the desert during a test run, had company engineers giggling in amazement, reveals Jamal Hameedi in Autoweek's latest video. Ford's global performance vehicle chief engineer, accompanied by Bruce Williams, Ford senior exterior designer, sat down with the publication to ...