Category: Ford

Officials Announce Reopening of Hollywood Bowl, Ford Amphitheater

LOS ANGELES—The Los Angeles Philharmonic Association (LA Phil) April 9 announced plans for the reopening of its outdoor concert venues—the Hollywood Bowl and The Ford—for the 2021 season, starting with four free concerts for health care workers, first responders and essential workers as a gesture of thanks for their work throughout the pandemic. Based on…


2021 Ford Bronco Sport Badlands

To get the confusion out of the way right off the bat, the all-new Ford Bronco and Ford Bronco Sport are two entirely different things. The former is a traditional body-on-frame SUV, based on the Ranger pickup platform, while the latter that Epoch Times tested is a unibody variant sharing the Escape’s underpinnings. This, however,…


Supreme Court Rules Against Ford in Product Liability Venue Dispute

WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously ruled against Ford Motor Co in a case in which the second-largest U.S. automaker had sought to bar two state courts from hearing product liability suits involving a pair of serious crashes. Ford had appealed rulings by the top state courts in Montana and Minnesota that had allowed the…


Supreme Court Makes Suing Car Companies Over Vehicle Defects Easier

The Supreme Court unanimously ruled against Ford Motor Company’s challenge to Minnesota and Montana court decisions this morning that allowed personal injury lawsuits regarding cars sold out of state to proceed. The ruling issued March 25 covers two appeals, Ford Motor Co. v. Montana Eighth Judicial District Court, court file 19-368, and Ford Motor Co. v. Bandemer, court file 19-369. In…


Supreme Court Makes It Easier to Sue Car Companies Over Defects

The Supreme Court unanimously rejected Ford Motor Co.’s claim that people who buy its cars in states with little connection to the company shouldn’t be allowed to sue in personal injury lawsuits, a ruling that will make it easier for plaintiffs to sue automakers throughout the country. The ruling, issued March 25, covers two appeals, Ford Motor Co. v….


Video: Facts Matter (March 19): Putin Challenges Biden to Live Debate

After President Joe Biden made comments about how Russian President Vladimir Putin is a “killer,” Russia pulled the ambassador out of America. Putin then challenged Biden to a live debate. Meanwhile, in Ohio, a large Ford Motor plant has just announced that they are planning to move a major project worth about $900 million over…


Chip Shortage Forces Ford to Build Trucks Without Computers

DETROIT—A global semiconductor shortage and a February winter storm have combined to force Ford to build F-150 pickup trucks without some computers. The company says the pickups will be held at factories for “a number of weeks,” then shipped to dealers once computers are available and quality checks are done. The move is the latest…


Ford Latest Automaker to Shut North American Plants on US Winter Weather

MEXICO CITY—Freezing weather that interrupted gas supplies in the southern United States and Mexico was wreaking havoc on Thursday with car manufacturing plants on both sides of the border, with Ford saying several of its assembly plants have been shut. The cold snap has overwhelmed Texas’s power grid, while natural gas supplies to Mexico from…


Ford’s Europe Car Lineup to Be All-Electric by 2030

LONDON—Ford Motor Co on Wednesday said its car lineup in Europe will be all-electric by 2030 as the U.S. automaker races to get ahead of CO2 emissions targets and looming bans in some countries on fossil fuel vehicles. The carmaker said it will invest $1 billion over the next 30 months to convert its vehicle…


NTD Business Full Broadcast (Feb. 5)

The Labor Department says January’s unemployment rate is down to 6.3% from 6.7% in December. Where are the job opportunities? NTD talks to Julia Pollak, a labor economist with Zip Recruiter. Why are car markers shutting down plants? NTD talks to an auto industry expert about the unprecedented computer chip shortage. Google tries to make…