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...In 2005, he whittled a Japanese motorcyclist’s 24-day record for the 1,118.7km journey from the coast of Antarctica to the South Pole down to just two days, 21 hours and 21 minutes in a six-wheeled Ford...
...The Ford Explorer, for years America’s top-selling SUV, was outsold almost two to one last month by Toyota’s Yaris, one of the smallest cars on the market....
...Ford discontinued the giant Excursion in 2005; Explorer sales were 24 per cent lower in the first nine months of 2007 than a year earlier, and 32 per cent down in September....
...That makes the sign on the back window of a Ford Explorer stand out. ”Welcome Home Sgt Adcock” it reads in white paint....
...There was one more sales day last month than in May 2005. Paul Ballew, GM?s sales analyst, described May as ?a challenging month for the industry as well as for ourselves?....
...Ford announced a further 2.5 per cent cut in North American production for the first quarter of next year, compared with January-March 2005....
...Mineral explorer Beowulf Mining climbed 14.7 per cent to 5.87p after receiving a permit to explore a titanium deposit in Northern Sweden....
...Ford said it would also trim purchases of outside services by one-tenth, and was investigating ways of cutting personnel costs outside north America....
...THE LAY OF THE LAND by Richard Ford Bloomsbury ₤17.99, 352 pages The travails of bemused family man and sportswriter-turned-realtor Frank Bascombe are examined in this acutely lucid conclusion to Ford’...
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