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Aha by HARMAN™ and Ford today announce Ford will offer Aha to drivers via its SYNC® AppLink™ system. Aha’s free service offers more than 30,000 audio stations that Ford SYNC users can tune in to while driving by using simple voice commands. View the full article

Couples looking to escape another mundane date night driving circles around town might soon find help with a new app that will make it easy to have an exciting social life. View the full article

The 2013 Ford Fusion continues to earn industry kudos. AOL Autos has awarded its second annual Car of the Year honors to the all-new car. AOL reports Fusion is boldly redesigned to not only raise the bar, but to meet the stalwarts of the category pound for pound and dollar for dollar for value, performance and quality. “The 2013 Ford Fusion is not only a leap forward from the previous model – already a very solid midsized sedan – but has quickly established itself as the class of this most competitive category,” says AOL Autos editor in chief David Kiley. “From stem to stern, inside and out, Ford designers, engineers and workers on the line have turned out a midsized family sedan whose biggest problem should be building enough of them.” Click <a target="_blank" href="http://autos.aol.com/gallery/car-of-year-2012-aol-autos/">here</a> for the full review. View the full article

Ford Motor Company has sold 239 acres of the former Wixom Assembly Plant to Trident Barrow Management, LLC, a unit of Barrow Development. View the full article

Ford Motor Company today announced that on Feb. 4, 2013 (the “Redemption Date”) it intends to redeem all of its outstanding 7.50% Notes due June 10, 2043 (NYSE: F PRA) (CUSIP Number 345370852) (the “Notes”). View the full article

Ford Motor Company's U.S. sales grew across the board in 2012, with cars up 5 percent, utilities up 7 percent, and trucks up 2 percent for the year. Ford sales analyst, Erich Merkle says Ford ended 2012 with over 2 million vehicles sold... which was the only brand to top the 2 million mark in U.S. sales. View the full article

Ford Motor Company of Canada, Limited finished the year as the best-selling manufacturer in the industry for the third consecutive year. The F-Series made history in 2012 selling more than 100,000 units; first time an automaker has sold that many trucks in a single year. It also held its title as Canada’s top selling truck for the 47th year in a row. The popular F-150, Canada’s top selling vehicle for the third consecutive year, was powered by the fuel sipping V6 EcoBoost engine selling more than 32,000 units (41%). View the full article

Ford Motor Company’s U.S. sales grew across the board in 2012, with cars up 5 percent, utilities up 7 percent, and trucks up 2 percent for the year. Overall, the Ford brand ended 2012 with 2,168,015 vehicles sold – the only brand to top 2 million U.S. sales. View the full article

Buying a new TV for the big game, easier with a Ford Fusion; Two Ford vehicles earn Autobytel Car of the Year awards; Ford Fusion Energi rated America's most fuel-efficient sedan; Bumper crop: Ford keeps 120 million pounds of damaged parts from landfills; In transit to 3D printing boom, Ford a major player in digital revolution; Ford predicted to be only brand to top 2 million sales in U.S. for 2012 View the full article

Getting ready for the playoffs, a man decides to buy a new 47-inch flat-screen TV; the only problem is he can’t fit it into his Honda Accord. Luckily, his good friend is the owner of a new 2013 Ford Fusion with a larger trunk and more pass-through space from seats that fold down easily. The Fusion trunk offers 16 cubic feet while Accord provides 15.8 cubic feet and Toyota Camry measures 15.4 cubic feet. Of the three, Fusion is the only car that offers a full pass-through from the trunk into the rear seats. So thanks to the Fusion, this man’s only problem now is deciding who to invite over to watch the big game. Check out the video <a target="_blank" href=" ">here</a>. View the full article

Automotive Internet pioneer Autobytel has named the all-new Ford Fusion its 2013 Car of the Year. The most fuel-efficient midsize sedan in America, the completely redesigned Fusion brings power of choice to the midsize sedan segment with the widest range of powertrains available, elevated levels of craftsmanship and attention to detail throughout. Autobytel editors have 76 years of combined experience test driving vehicles and are dedicated to providing consumers with the information they need to purchase new and used cars and connect with dealers online. Click <a target="_blank" href="http://www.autobytel.com/">here</a> for more. View the full article

Record exports for the third consecutive month combined with steady domestic demand helped Ford India end 2012 with sales of 10,899 domestic wholesale and export units in December. View the full article

The Ford brand is on track to top 2 million U.S. vehicle sales in 2012 for the second straight year – the only auto brand to do so in America this year. View the full article

The 2013 Ford Fusion – recently voted Green Car of the Year – just got greener as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency certified the new Fusion Energi plug-in hybrid at up to 108 MPGe, making it America’s most fuel-efficient sedan. View the full article

Ford’s recycling and remanufacturing program has kept 120 million pounds of damaged vehicle parts from landfills since 2003, effectively ending the days when the crack of a headlamp or crunch of a bumper would render useless such components. View the full article

Ford Motor Company is spending more than $773 million on new equipment and capacity expansions across six manufacturing facilities in southeast Michigan as it delivers on a commitment to invest $6.2 billion in U.S. plants by 2015. View the full article

In Ford’s Silicon Valley Lab, Dave Evans creates a custom vehicle gauge and emails the 3D design to Zac Nelson in Dearborn. Nelson uses the MakerBot® Thing-O-Matic™ at his workstation and prints up a physical prototype. The future of research and development is happening right here and now at the desks of these Ford engineers. View the full article

State-of-the-art sensing, computing and communications systems are not only quickly changing consumer expectations in people’s everyday lives, but are driving innovation in the automotive industry at an incredible pace in preparation for the future. View the full article

Ford has been front and center at CES for five consecutive years, introducing technologies that have been leading the automotive industry in capability and keeping pace with prevailing trends in consumer electronics. This year, Ford will make a major announcement that will solidify the car as the next major platform for development. View the full article

Ford is helping Santa Claus save future Christmases with an all-new 2014 Transit Connect Wagon sleigh. Due to larger-than-ever numbers of children on his “nice” list, Claus needed a new sleigh with maximum fuel economy and cargo space to efficiently deliver all his presents around the world View the full article

(Please note 10:00 a.m. EST call time) Ford Motor Company (NYSE:F) will release its December 2012 U.S. sales results at approximately 9:30 a.m. EST Thursday, January 3, 2013. At 10 a.m. EST, Erich Merkle, Ford U.S. sales analyst, will host a conference call for the investment community and news media to discuss the results and related market trends. He will be joined by Ken Czubay, Ford vice president, U.S. Marketing, Sales and Service, and Ellen Hughes-Cromwick, Ford's chief economist. View the full article

You don’t need a license for the latest Ford F-150 SVT Raptor high-performance truck product. You can now buy the Ford high-performance truck in the toy shop. View the full article

The all-new Ford Fusion earned the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) highest rating, a Top Safety Pick+, receiving an Acceptable rating in the new small overlap front crash test. The new 2013 Ford Fusion was already rated as a Top Safety Pick winner. This new rating, Top Safety Pick+, applies to all vehicles produced after mid-December 2012. View the full article

COLOGNE, Germany, Dec. 19, 2012 – FC Santa Claus – and their red-suited mascot – kick off a new weekly series of short films that celebrates the unique culture of European football. View the full article

Ford C-MAX is the fastest-selling hybrid ever at launch; Hot-selling C-MAX named official car of 2013 CES; All-new Transit changes the game in full-size commercial vans; Next-generation Transit Connect breaks new ground; 2013 Ford Fusion design to reduce repair costs 13 percent; Two Ford engines win Ward's 10 Best Engines trophies View the full article