Ford Motor India said on Monday that it hopes to wipe out its losses this year riding on the growing sales of its mid-size sedan Ikon.
Central government has approved the proposal to buy Ford's Ikon Flair for institutional purchases. Ford India has entered into a tie-up with the Directorate General of Supplies and Disposals for this. The Ikon will be available to government departments at a special rate. Ford India had supplied its SUV Endeavour and sedan Fiesta to various government and public sector undertakings. Besides the Ikon, Ford India sells sedan Fiesta, compact car Fusion, SUV Endeavour in India.
The price of the new petrol variant starts at Rs 686,000, while the diesel one begins with Rs 782,000 (ex-showroom, Delhi).
The Gujarat government, which sought a probe into the role of activist Teesta Setalvad's NGO, is now targeting her main funding source, the US-based NGO, Ford Foundation.
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Fiesta hatchback was launched in the US a while back and the car has been getting good reviews.
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Dr Kissinger, then US president Richard M Nixon's national security adviser, feigned illness on a visit to Pakistan in July 1971 and made a secret trip to Peking, as Beijing was then called, to begin the process of a rapprochement between America and China. It was a debt that Chinese leaders have never forgotten.
Ford's India boss, shares that the success of the Indian market so far has also come with its share of challenges.
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The current Explorer and Explorer Sport Trac models are built at the companys Louisville assembly plant in Kentucky.
Car maker Ford on Wednesday launched an advanced version of its sports utility vehicle Endeavour, priced at the higher end between Rs 15.99 lakh to 17.99 lakh ex-showroom New Delhi.
The diesel variant of the new Ikon would come with a 1.4 litre DuraTorq TDCi engine, while the petrol variant would be available with a 1.3 litre RoCam engine. The company would launch a new small car in India in 2010.
If you don't mind working over weekends and like being in a two-piece suit all day long, pick the Superb. And if you have a penchant for exploring places over the weekend, look no further than the Endeavour which can also carry your gang.
Ford Motor Co sued luxury automaker Ferrari on Wednesday for trademark infringement after Ferrari named its 2011 Formula 1 racing car the "F150."
Ford India on Tuesday launched Fusion Plus, a new variant in the Ford Fusion range, priced at Rs 616,500 and Rs 683,500 (ex-showroom, Delhi). The company claims that Fusion Plus offers consumers excellent value for money and the introductory offer on the Fusion Plus during the month of March includes an MP3 player with 4 speakers.
Car major Ford has launched its new Ford Endeavour at Rs 15.39 lakh in New Delhi.
With its bullish plans to take its Figo car model to global markets, Ford India is looking at North America, the UAE and South America, among others, for export. The company expects to export at least 10,000 units of Ford vehicles in these countries by the end of this financial year.
American auto giant Ford is likely to retain a stake and continue supplying engines and some of the components for Jaguar and Land Rover, even after the sale of the two British luxury brands, media reports said in the United Kingdom.
Post the completion of expansion programme in mid-2012, the engine plant's production capacity will increase from 2.5 lakh units to 330,000 units per year.
The US auto giant Ford Motor on Tuesday said it would post profits at its Indian unit from this year, with a strong sales growth of its mid-size sedan 'Ikon' in the market.
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The $26-million assembly plant has a production capacity of 50,000 diesel engines and 10,000 petrol engines annually, the company said. The company has also added 25 new local suppliers to its supply network to support the new diesel engine assembly operations, which help to contribute nearly 50 per cent local content to the diesel engines.
Let's see if Liva can live up to the expectations of the hatchback buyers and what will woo them to buy it as compared to Maruti Suzuki Swift, Hyundai i20, Ford Figo, and others.
Charging NGOs like Greenpeace with violating Indian laws, the RSS on Sunday called US as "the global police of democracy" and questioned its defence of the two organisations.
Modi denies the charges and was exonerated in an Indian Supreme Court inquiry in 2012.
Michael Boneham, president, Ford India, said the small car would be engineered for Indian conditions and that the company was keeping options open for both petrol and diesel variants. Ford's mall car will mark its entry into the mainstream segment, popularly known as the B segment cars in India, which accounts for a little over 70 per cent of the 1.3 million India car market.
A 40-year-old Indian doctor was held in a US jail on a USD 2 million bond after being charged with multiple sex crimes for allegedly recording hundreds of nude images and videos of children and women over several years, according to media reports.
Ford Motors India has apologised for an ad campaign that showed scantily-clad, voluptuous women gagged, bound and stuffed in the trunk of the car maker's Figo model.
Ford Motor India on Monday said the sales of its flagship model Ikon crossed the 10,000 mark in the first five months this year and the company was poised to post profit in 2004.
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