tag:ford News


Title and summary Date/time
41
Ford India launches unique 'Quick Service’ station
The Quick Service initiative, allows Ford dealers in India to service the vehicle and hand it over to the customer in just an hour or so.
15 May, 2009
42
Global car companies to follow the Maruti route
Companies like the world’s largest carmaker Toyota, Europe’s largest car maker Volkswagen, Japan’s Honda and America’s Ford Motor plan to use the same technology to make both hatchbacks and sedans for their future launches in ...
13 May, 2009
43
Ford’s April sales lift share future
In an April UK car market where overall industry demand decreased by 24 per cent, the popularity of the Ford model range limited the impact on the company to a 3.6 per cent drop in registrations, year on year.
11 May, 2009
44
Ford Fusion April sales up 24% in Canada
April also marked the 45th anniversary of the iconic Ford Mustang. The 2010 Mustang delivers even more power, new technologies; fast, fun, affordable driving and is in dealer showrooms now.
8 May, 2009
45
Ford Ikon on a 20,000-Km Marathon Around India
Twelve days from its flag off from its manufacturing facility in Maramalai Nagar on April 22, the Ikon has now arrived at Ahmedabad, a rising centre of education, IT and scientific industries, which is also known as the cultural and commercial heart of ...
8 May, 2009
46
Ford India to launch its small car by early 2010
The automobile firm is expanding its yearly vehicle manufacturing capacity to 200,000 units and 250,000 engines and would be increasing the share of exports (from India) once the capacity is expanded.
5 May, 2009
47
Ford Fiesta offers smart steering optimises safety & accuracy
Ford's Electric Power Assist Steering (EPAS) system helps deliver improved fuel economy, great maneuverability and responsive handling as well as compensating automatically for the small suspension and tyre changes that are a normal part of service wear.
5 May, 2009
48
DGS&D approves use of Ford Fiesta by all govt departments
Fiesta added to the list of preferred choice of Ford cars for Government Institutions
4 May, 2009
49
The reason why Chrysler found India elusive
Chrysler was keen to invest in India once the gates were thrown open in the early 1990s. Quite unlike the others, it had a comfy head start and was preparing to join hands with Mahindra & Mahindra to manufacture Jeep Cherokee here.
2 May, 2009
50
Compact Cars in India enhance demand for parts suppliers
In addition to this, most auto companies like Toyota, Volkswagen, Ford, BMW, and Skoda are initially targeting the domestic market, before they start exporting their yet-to-be-launched compact cars.
30 Apr, 2009
51
Ford India to have new strategy for Indian Market
"The concept has been implemented in 24 dealership outlets located in Mumbai, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Delhi and Chennai. We will expand this to other dealerships as well," Wark said.
23 Apr, 2009
52
Ford models offer automatic rain-sensing windscreen wipers
Ford’s Quickclear system uses a powerful but near invisible electrical element sandwiched in the middle of the windscreen glass.
15 Apr, 2009
53
Ford ranked as one of India's top 25 Best Hewitt's Employers' in 2009
Ford India emerged as the only automobile manufacturer in the country to have achieved this feat. More than 230 Indian organisations registered to participate in this year's survey, with 46,000 employees representing a workforce of over 800,000 people.
10 Apr, 2009
54
Ford Endeavour registers impressive sales growth in Q1
Corners an impressive 29% market share in the premium SUV segment
9 Apr, 2009
55
Mumbai organizes vintage car rally
More than 100 rare vintage cars participated in the show, some of which dated way back to 1900.
8 Apr, 2009
56
Ford & GM's India Expansion Plans on Schedule
Officials in the Indian arms of both companies claim their plans for India remains unchanged.
4 Apr, 2009
57
Ford Endeavour Automatic now in India
The new automatic model of Endeavour is likely to fall between Mahindra’s Scorpio Automatic and Toyota’s Fortuner in India built on the IMV platform.
1 Apr, 2009
58
Luxury auto majors object partiality in excise sops on small car
They opine that such benefits skew the market in favor of small cars as bigger cars pay 20% excise duty.
31 Mar, 2009
59
Ford India likely to increase the price of Ikon by April
It is to be mentioned here that this hike will apply to Ford’s new version of the Ikon that was launched last November and is priced at Rs 5.19 lakh (ex-showroom Delhi) for the diesel variant and Rs 4.59 lakh for the petrol variant.
26 Mar, 2009
60
Ford India's first ‘Quick Service’ station at Harpreet Ford, Gurgaon
This new initiative results into a lot of time saving for the Ford customers at the authorized dealers, unlike in the past when periodic vehicle servicing for the customers was a whole day affair.
25 Mar, 2009