| Ohio State Highway Patrol Seizes Cocaine Valued at $300,000 | | Posted Monday, November 13, 2006 10:46:10 PM by Blog57 Team | | MAUMEE -- Ohio State Highway Patrol troopers seized three kilos of cocaine, valued at $300,000 during a traffic stop Monday on the Ohio Turnpike in Lucas County. The two suspects will be arraigned in Maumee Municipal Court on felony charges associated with the case, a news release from the Ohio State Patrol says. The driver, Sergio Rodriguez-Hernandez, 25, and the passenger, Jovani Rivera-Peralta, 26, both of Sun Valley, Calif., were charged with a first degree felony for possession of cocaine and a first degree felony for trafficking in cocaine. A trooper stopped the 2002 Ford Explorer with California license plates for a speed violation eastbound on the Ohio Turnpike near milepost 57 in Springfield Township at 1:25pm Monday. An Ohio State Patrol drug detection canine alerted troopers to the vehicle.... | |
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| | | NEW CAR PREVIEW | | Posted Sunday, November 12, 2006 12:46:58 PM by Blog57 Team | | No complete redesign of Ford's compact pickup is due until 2008, despite rollouts of all-new models in the past two years by rivals General Motors, Dodge, Toyota and Nissan. The Ranger got some mid-cycle upgrades for 2004, and continues as-is for 2007. Ranger will again be offered in five trim levels -- XL, Edge, XLT, Tremor and FX4 – Ford said. The most rugged model is the FX4, which is the off-road, four-wheel-drive model. Three engines are available: a recently introduced 2.3-liter four-cylinder and two V-6s. The four-cylinder produces 143 horsepower and 154 foot-pounds of torque, thanks to new intake and exhaust camshafts, throttle body, exhaust manifold and engine calibration, Ford says. The midlevel engine is a 3.0-liter V-6 engine rated at 154 horsepower and 180 foot-pounds of torque.... | |
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| | | Ford to drop Fidelity Magellan from 401(k) | | Posted Saturday, October 21, 2006 2:45:59 PM by Blog57 Team | | Ford is nixing one of Fidelity Investments' largest and best-known mutual funds from the investment options it offers to employees, the company said Tuesday. The auto maker sent notices to workers that it would no longer allow employees to invest their retirement funds in Fidelity's Magellan Fund, along with three funds from other companies. .... | |
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| | | Ford urged to pay cost of fixing paint faults | | Posted Thursday, September 28, 2006 6:45:55 PM by Blog57 Team | | A consumer advocacy group says Ford should reimburse the owners of 2000 to 2005 model Fords, Lincolns and Mercurys that have had a problem with the paint on aluminum body panels. In a technical service bulletin sent to dealers, Ford admits that the blistering or bubbling of paint on the aluminum body panels, such as hoods, is the automaker's fault "due to iron contamination of the aluminum panel." Ford should replace the parts and offer a warranty of at least eight years, said Clarence Ditlow, executive director of the Center for Auto Safety. Ditlow estimated that hundreds of thousands of vehicles have the aluminum body panels, such as hoods. But the technical service bulletin is only to guide dealers should a problem occur, and there is no evidence of a widespread problem with the issue, said Kristen Kinley, a Ford spokeswoman.... | |
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| | | Roswell man dies in wreck | | Posted Tuesday, August 29, 2006 12:45:55 AM by Blog57 Team | | Trooper Austin Allen with the Georgia State Patrol said Sunday that 33-year-old Pedro Fuentes Sandoval of Roswell was killed when the 1997 Ford F-150 pickup truck in which he was riding overturned after a minivan struck it. Sandoval was pronounced dead at the scene, Allen said. No charges have been filed, and the state patrol is investigating. The wreck happened about 3:15 p.m., Allen said, when a 2001 Ford Explorer that had been stopped at a stop sign on Belton Bridge Road pulled into the path of a 1997 Chrysler Town and County minivan. The van, driven by 87-year-old Harry Martin from Gainesville, struck the Explorer and stopped in the middle of the southbound lanes of Ga. 365, Allen said. He said the Explorer, driven by 65-year-old Ray Hawkins of Lula, ended up on its right side, also in the southbound lanes of Ga.... | |
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| | | More products would ease Ford workers' plant fears | | Posted Sunday, August 27, 2006 2:46:05 PM by Blog57 Team | | If it were up to Bill Hord instead of Bill Ford, workers at Ford Motor Co.'s Louisville Assembly Plant would soon start making small pickups. "We could handle a new truck; it's just a matter of where they want to put it," said Hord, an employee at the 3,300-worker factory on Fern Valley Road that makes Explorer sport utility vehicles. Hord, who has 19 years' service with Ford, was on medical leave last week recovering from shoulder surgery. .... | |
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| | | Analysts: Ford needs new car models | | Posted Friday, August 04, 2006 2:46:15 PM by Blog57 Team | | Ford Motor Co., top-heavy with gas-guzzling trucks, needs some new cars to help turn around the company's fortunes but is running well behind its biggest competitors in developing them, industry analysts said Wednesday. That assessment of Ford's chief weakness comes as Japan's Toyota Motor Corp. last month vaulted past Ford for the first time to take over the second-place spot among U.S. auto retailers. The North American automotive unit has been losing market share for more than a decade and has lost money in seven of the last eight quarters. Ford posted a corporate first-half net loss this year of $1.31 billion. .... | |
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| | | Lubbock Child Dies In Rollover | | Posted Friday, July 14, 2006 4:46:09 AM by Blog57 Team | | The accident happened around 8 a.m. Thursday in the 1500 block of Parkway Drive. According to police, 26-year-old Adelaida Alonso was headed west on Parkway with her two daughters unbuckled in the backseat. She somehow lost control of her Ford Explorer. It hit the median and she over-corrected, causing the SUV to roll several times and cross into the eastbound lanes. Alonso`s three-year-old daughter, Alessandra, was ejected through the windshield of the vehicle. EMS crews performed CPR, but the child died on the scene. Alonso and her five-year-old daughter, Gabrielle, went to UMC with minor injuries. .... | |
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| | | Blocky Moves: Ford to Launch Fairlane Crossover in 2008 | | Posted Wednesday, July 12, 2006 6:46:10 PM by Blog57 Team | | Ford's made entirely clear its intention to abandon the minivan game in favor of crossover SUVs like the upcoming Edge, as well as engage in left-field thinking about the genre, like the iffy Freestyle wagonover (or whatever). Now, according to AutoWeek, the company announced it will build the blocky Fairlane, which it showed off last year in concept form. Conceived as a kind of picnic vehicle for families too cool for vans shaped like panty-hose dispensers, the Fairlane (or whatever it will be called) appears to split the difference between the Land Rover LR3 and the Ford Explorer. A Lincoln version is planned as well. Both will be built at the company's Oakville, Ontario works. Fairlane will Fly [AutoWeek] Related: Apres Minivan: Ford's New Crossover SUVs [internal] .... | |
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