On July 1st, Ford Motor Company released information on their sales to date and it has made a down-turn from last year. However, it’s coming as no surprise and Ford’s Sales Analyst, Erich Merkle says it was expected. Here are some notes from Ford’s June 2014 announcement. Ford sold 222,064 vehicles in June of 2014 […] More »

We were trying to recruit other top notch teams to run our E4OD transmission. Rob MacCachren was and still is one of the best off road racers of all times. He had just won the Trophy Truck championship with a largely outdated truck. He had a fairly low budget for the time. He was really […] More »

Meet “Old Blue,” 66ordie‘s 1966 Ford F-100 build. He has three goals for this build; firstly, to finish Old Blue before her fiftieth birthday in 2016. Secondly, to update the truck as best as he can with his limited knowledge of all things metal. And, thirdly, to make his late dad proud. After all, this wonderful […] More »

“Watch as a crazy hippy bastard jumps in a field with a passenger,” the video tag on YouTube claimed. Okay, who doesn’t want to see something stupid like that? Melissa Wathcmous posted this reckless Ford jump last month on the site. And while the production quality is not exactly top notch, it’s still a pretty […] More »

There are some trucks out there have gone down in history and become memorable icons of certain eras of our world. One such truck is the Ford Bronco, which was in production between 1966 and 1996. Though those thirty years are over, these beasts are still seen roaring down streets everywhere, and are still certainly one […] More »

For new cars and trucks purchased over the past 10 years, the manual transmission take rate has hovered around five percent. That take rate is only headed downward.

Thanks to a misunderstanding about a missed phone call and a colleague up in Michigan, I recently had the privilege of attending the Further with Ford Trend Conference 2014 in Dearborn. Over the course of two days, I saw the outer faces of the automaker both flesh-and-blood and bricks-and-mortar, some of its inner workings, its current […] More »