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2011 FORD EXPLORER BRINGS CLASS-LEADING FUEL ECONOMY, PERFORMANCE TO SPORT UTILITY SEGMENT | Ford Motor Company Newsroom

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All-new Ford Explorer SUV offers best-in-class fuel economy from high-tech powertrains, featuring multiple enhancements to improve mechanical efficiency
Explorer comes standard with a powerful, fuel-efficient 3.5-liter V6 engine with twin independent variable camshaft timing (Ti-VCT)
For [...]

FORD EXPLORER: REDEFINING SUVs WITH BOLD DESIGN, PRECISION CRAFTSMANSHIP AND ‘QUIET’ QUALITY | Ford Motor Company Newsroom

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All-new Ford Explorer delivers a bold new design – yet is instantly recognizable as an Explorer and a Ford – and raises the bar on customers’ expectations for a modern, capable, fuel-efficient SUV with unsurpassed aerodynamics

World-class Explorer craftsmanship mandates precision engineering to uniform tolerances [...]

WORLD’S FIRST INFLATABLE SECOND-ROW SEAT BELT LATEST INNOVATION IN FORD EXPLORER SAFETY STORY | Ford Motor Company Newsroom

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Explorer raises the bar on SUV safety with a class-leading array of airbags including industry-exclusive inflatable second-row seat belts, a Safety Canopy®, Trinity front crash impact structure and collision warning with brake support

All-new Explorer features AdvanceTrac® with RSC® (Roll Stability Control™), Curve Control, [...]

NEW FORD EXPLORER BALANCES ON-ROAD HANDLING WITH INTELLIGENT 4WD TERRAIN MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | Ford Motor Company Newsroom

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Ford has reinvented the Explorer sport utility vehicle with significantly improved on-road driving dynamics and an effective – yet intuitive – terrain management system
Explorer offers both front-wheel-drive and intelligent four-wheel-drive (4WD) variations to provide optimized traction in mud, sand or snow, and Class III [...]

2011 FORD EDGE SPORT ADDS CLASS-LEADING POWER, BOLDER APPEARANCE AND INDUSTRY-FIRST TECHNOLOGY | Ford Motor Company Newsroom

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With a new 3.7-liter Ti-VCT (twin independent variable camshaft timing) V6 producing 305 horsepower and 280 lb.-ft. of torque, the 2011 Ford Edge Sport has best-in-class performance with outstanding fuel economy of 18 mpg city and 25 mpg highway (front-wheel drive)
The class-leading power is [...]

CLASS-EXCLUSIVE 22-INCH WHEELS STANDARD ON FORD EDGE SPORT HIGHLIGHT NEW WHEEL LINEUP FOR 2011 | Ford Motor Company Newsroom

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2011 Ford Edge features four new wheel designs, including 18- and 20-inch wheels for Edge SEL and Edge Limited, and the class-exclusive 22-inch wheels that highlight the 2011 Ford Edge Sport
New 18- and 20-inch wheels are one-half inch wider than the outgoing [...]

2011 FORD EDGE OFFICIALLY HAS TOP FUEL ECONOMY AND BEST-IN-CLASS POWER – SEE AT YOUR ST. LOUIS FORD DEALERSHIP

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2011 Ford Edge SEL and Limited (front-wheel drive) are EPA-estimated at unsurpassed 19 mpg city and 27 mpg highway
Outstanding fuel economy is combined with best-in-class power. The standard 3.5-liter V6 produces 285 horsepower, tops among standard V6 competitors and 20 more horsepower than the outgoing [...]

FORD INTRODUCES NEW CURVE CONTROL TECHNOLOGY TO HELP PROTECT AGAINST CRASHES ON CURVES | Ford Motor Company Newsroom

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Ford is pioneering the next frontier of safety with crash-avoidance innovations such as Curve Control, which launches on the all-new 2011 Ford Explorer and rolls out to 90 percent of Ford’s North American crossovers, sport utilities, trucks and vans by 2015
Curve Control is [...]

FORD IMPROVES SYNC 911 ASSIST WITH GPS LOCATION AWARENESS FOR FAST RESPONSE; NO FEES ATTACHED | Ford Motor Company Newsroom

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Ford SYNC® emergency response app, 911 Assist™, can now provide operators with theability to receive a vehicle’s exact GPS coordinates in the event of an accident
Ford 911 Assist with GPS location remains a subscription-free, no-additional-cost feature to customers for the life of [...]

FORD PUTS CHARGE IN ELECTRIC VEHICLE PLANS; PARTNERS WITH COULOMB TECHNOLOGIES TO PROVIDE FREE CHARGING STATIONS TO SOME OF ITS FIRST ELECTRIC VEHICLE OWNERS | Ford Motor Company Newsroom

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Ford Motor Company is partnering with Coulomb Technologies to provide free in-home ChargePoint® Networked Charging Stations for some of the automaker’s first electric vehicle customers under the Ford Blue Oval ChargePoint Program.
The [...]

FORD DELIVERS ON 2006 PLEDGE TO DOUBLE FLEXIBLE-FUEL VEHICLE PRODUCTION IN AMERICA BY END OF 2010 | Ford Motor Company Newsroom

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Ford is delivering on its 2006 pledge to double the number of flexible-fuel vehicles produced in the U.S. by the end of 2010.  Ford produced nearly 185,000 2006 model year flexible-fuel vehicles.
The development and use of renewable fuels helps reduce [...]

FORD, UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN REVEAL STUDENTS VISION FOR FUTURE OF IN-CAR CLOUD COMPUTING APPS | Ford Motor Company Newsroom

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As part of the research course, Cloud Computing in the Commute, six University of Michigan teams developed apps for in-car use; a panel of judges from U-M, Ford and Microsoft selected the winner based on relevance and usability
The winning app, Caravan Track, [...]