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...Across town, Ford slowed down production of its F150 pick-up truck, the company’s cash cow, and did the same at another facility in Michigan....
...Ford benefits in the region from its strong position in the market for sports utility vehicles, which have regained popularity with falling oil prices, and the popularity of its F150 pick-up truck, North...
...Dennis Williams, president of the United Auto Workers’ union, which represents Ford workers, immediately criticised the decision, calling it “a disappointment and very troubling”....
...At the Detroit motor show, Mr Fields announced Credit Link, a trial that will allow up to six owners in Austin, Texas, to share Fords, including its popular F150 pickup trucks....
...Rihanna blares from a sound system set up in the bed of a pickup truck. Amateur bartenders have set up neat rows of tables with cheap liquor for sale....
...“It’s a demonstration of how we can put almost anything on top of our platform,” he said. “It could be something as mundane as a pickup truck or as exciting as a racing car.”...
...current, buoyant state of the US car industry....
...Ford is working to ramp up production of a ground-breaking new F150 pick-up truck....
...This has been propelled by bumper sales of SUVs and pick-up trucks, which sometimes go as little as 15 miles per gallon of fuel, compared with 40 miles for a small car....
...Ford said sales for its F-series trucks — which include the new, aluminium-bodied F150 pick-up truck, the US’s best-selling vehicle — were 16.8 per cent up on last January....
...“The F150s [a Ford pickup model] and the SUVs are flying out of the dealers’ showrooms these days,” says Charlie Drevna, president of American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers, a refiner industry group...
...The threat came into sharp focus in January when Ford announced a redesign of its F150 pick-up truck – the US’s best-selling vehicle for more than three decades – featuring an all-aluminium body....
...The self-driving Lexus asserted itself, barging past a white pickup truck that failed to pull into a gap left by the Google car to avoid roadworks....
...The roads were jammed with trucks and Ford pickups....
...of the state of São Paulo....
...Ford, the US’s second-biggest carmaker by sales, unveiled a significantly lighter version of its F150 pick-up truck on Monday at the Detroit international auto show....
...We wouldn’t be talking about a couple of lane closings in the forlorn borough of Fort Lee if not for the fact that the roads linking New Jersey with New York are so full of cars, trucks and buses that the...
...(Bloomberg) Uneven gains signal US car demand near plateau: Strong demand for pickup trucks and sport-utility vehicles boosted U.S. sales in May for major auto makers, but the auto industry rebound that...
...Output from other Gulf states, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates, is also close to, or at, record levels....
...Each then stands in the bed of a pickup truck and is driven around the track with a member of the military at their side....
...Americans’ renewed love affair with big pickup trucks helped drive US light-vehicle sales to their highest level of the year in November....
...“I wanted to know everything – where she [the V&A curator] worked, the colour of bricks, everything in the street.”...
...According to Marcus Ford of Pudao, a subsidiary of Summergate, these events were, incredibly, very poorly attended....
...Thank you, God bless you, and may God bless the United States of America....
...The sparsely populated state is at the heart of the new US oil boom and there is a desperate need for drivers of equipment trucks and oil tankers....
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