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Ford is to scale up production of electric vehicles to 600,000 a year by late 2023. Ford said a multichannel approach with a strong dealer presence gave provided the best experience for EV owners of the future. “This is our opportunity to win a whole new group of customers, building their loyalty and advocacy as we grow our market share,” ...

Ford has revealed the dealerships who won the Chairperson’s Awards for car sales and service. The awards went to dealers of all sizes from the listed dealer groups like Vertu, Lookers and Pendragon to some of the smaller operators. Dealers had to perform strongly in both sales and service to win the award and deliver excellent customer service M53 Ford ...

The Goodwood Festival of speed will see a raft of models on dynamic display. Ford is showing performance-developed versions of its commercial vehicles. The all-new Ford Pro Electric SuperVan will be revealed for the first time and the Next-Gen Ranger Raptor will make its European dynamic debut. The all-new Ranger Raptor will also appear for the first time in pride-inspired ...

Jim Farley, the CEO of Ford and personally responsible for their new Model E division focused solely on electric cars and trucks, recently caused a stir amongst US dealers with comments he made in an interview with Bernstein. His comments have been fairly widely reported, but you can see a transcript here.  Amongst the highlights were predictions that BEVs would ...

Ford has announced strides toward an all-electric future in Europe, offering a new generation of seven, all-electric, fully-connected passenger vehicles and vans by 2024. Today’s announcement builds on the recent news that the company has created a new global business unit – Ford Model e – focused on the design, production, and distribution of electric and connected vehicles. Together with ...

Figures out today from the SMMT reveal the extent of the impact the chip shortages are having on new car sales for some carmakers. Seven brands reported double digit declines in a market up 2.6% for the year. Excluding Mitsubishi which is pulling out of UK sales, Renault saw a -32% decline in the year to November while Ford was ...

A new FORDLiive Centre at Ford’s European commercial vehicle research and development HQ in Dunton, Essex, is supporting the Transit Centre dealer network, helping to minimise the time spent off road for customer vehicles. FORDLiive is a complimentary service being rolled out for all operators of Ford connected commercial vehicles, designed to reduce the number of breakdowns, enable fewer visits ...

TC Harrison battled against the pandemic in 2020 seeing a reduction in turnover and pre tax profits in what it described as a challenging year. The group, which operates the Ford franchise, a contract hire business and JCT sales operation generated pre-tax profits of £2.6m compared to £4.4m in 2019 on turnover of £256.8m compared to £305.3m last time. In ...

Vertu-owned Macklin Motors has taken on the Vauxhall car and LCV franchise in Dunfermline. The Vauxhall franchise will dual franchise with its existing Ford business on the site which is undergoing a £1.7m redevelopment. The addition of Vauxhall will create jobs in the local area in both sales and aftersales, including technicians and sales executives. Joe McCauley (pictured), general manager ...

A joint report between Cox Automotive and Grant Thornton has revealed the impact the pandemic has had on carmaker profitability and highlighted individual recovery strategies. The report showed how some carmakers responded quickly to the change in the market by making cost reductions. It cited Ford, which despite having made losses in Q2 2020 of US$6.1bn, improved its performance in ...