Ford has earned more “Top Safety Pick” ratings from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) than any other automaker with a total of 16 to date.
Ford surpassed its closest rival Honda this week when four of its 2009 models — Ford Flex, Ford Fusion, Lincoln MKS and Mercury Milan — achieved “Top Safety Pick” ratings from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS).

Subway Hawaii has switched advertising agencies, opting to go with a California-based agency for its 126 sandwich restaurants in the state.

J. Stokes & Associates was selected as Subway Hawaii’s agency of record effective Sept. 1, said Ted Davenport, Subway’s development agent for Hawaii.

Bill Ford Jr. came to Capitol Hill Tuesday to make sure that lawmakers don’t confuse the loans that U.S. automakers are seeking with discussions of bail outs for the companies in the troubled financial services sector.

Ford, the executive chairman of the auto company founded by his great grandfather, met with several members of the Michigan House delegation, as well as members from the five other states the company has factories in.

The Metropolitan Taxicab Board released a report yesterday by a well-known auto engineer blasting the vehicles and also filed a lawsuit to stop the city’s mandate requiring all new taxis hitting the street after Oct. 1 have a rating of at least 25 miles per gallon. The Taxi and Limousine Commission did not adequately test the safety of new vehicles, the group charges.

“Hybrids were designed to be personal cars for driving 10,000 miles a year, not 100,000 miles a year, like taxis,” said Michael Woloz, spokesman for the trade group.

It shines, it glitters, it energizes and allures. In fact, the importance and psychology of color is unmistakable, even in the automotive realm. “It’s critical,” says Susan Sage, Color and Materials design manager, at Ford Motor Company. “Color creates an aesthetic emotion. If it’s a color that the customer loves, if it gives them that sense of balance and comfort, they’ll want it. It can make or break a sale.”

Camelback Ford Lincoln Mercury opened in late July on Camelback Road in the old Chapman Lincoln Mercury location with remodeling plans in the works.

The new dealership at 1330 E. Camelback bought out Chapman as well as the former Mel Clayton Ford operation at Camelback and 16th Street. The later location remains empty.

U.S. auto sales dropped 13% in July from the same month last year as sales of trucks and sport-utility vehicles kept falling, and a tight credit market kept customers out of the showrooms while forcing auto makers to back away from leasing vehicles.

Vehicles sales totaled 1,136,176 cars and light trucks, according to Autodata Corp. The seasonally adjusted, annualized sales pace was 12.55 million vehicles, much lower than expected and a worrying sign for an already embattled auto industry. The year-earlier level was 15.48 million vehicles.

Lincoln has spent the past two years with their rehabilitation plans.

In 2006 Detroit auto show since the advent of the concept of identity, the Lincoln MKS has headed the world notice of its flagship sedan for a long time coming, after years of testing and improvement, MKS has finally arrived.

In recent years continuation of the Lincoln brand new design style, and more avant-garde, and even Lincoln into an unprecedented new areas, So Lincoln MKS is a reconstruction of Lincoln in the U.S. luxury car market position of major products.

MKS appearance of the most eye-catching de

This is our recent acquisition of the 2009 Lincoln MKS coming out of the street as a spy, the Lincoln MKS is another one to rebuild the brand in the U.S. luxury car market position of major products.

Front and rear turn lights, stop lights are used LED.

Headlamps using halogen lamps, but is under the operation of the steering wheel to change the direction of irradiation adaptive headlights.

In addition, the Lincoln brand cars are still used in the first 20-inch wheels, Beixian tough.

With entitled "VistaRoof" the large glass roof, the dashboard by the birds ey

Lincoln MKT concept car featuresits landmark two-wing-shaped chrome-plated front grille.

On both sides of the front grille and integrated LED headlamps, Wai flu on a sculpture of the engine cover, so that this great momentum luxury utility vehicle.

Lincoln MKT concept car body side of the waist are two elegant slant, and the rear wheel arch is like a dynamic in the leg.

In addition to the Lincoln logo inlaid former central grid, also decorated the front side.

To strengthen the visual length of the car, the hood and designers on both sides have pulled out of the door on