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Ford Strives to Protect Environment—Read Up on Efforts in 2017 Sustainability Report

On the shores of Lake Ontario, surrounded by wildlife management areas and scenic byways, Rochester is a great place for nature-lovers. There are many threats facing our environment, from deforestation, to pollution, and—looming over all else—climate change.

Ford Motor Company's executive chairman Bill Ford noticed this, too, and was disturbed to see the natural places he enjoyed....

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By Our Powers Combined: The Ford Focus Electric!

There are a lot of incentives to climb over to the greener side of the automotive fence and our favorite American automaker makes it looks as good as it feels! The 2016 Ford Focus Electric is a truly amazing car that gets ride of CO2 emissions, fuel fill-ups, and oil changes so you can enjoy true all-electric freedom. Take a look at the video below to see a hilarious overdubbing of the old Captain Planet cartoons and get a chuckle along with us. We think you'll like it:

 

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Is Your Engine Missing a Cylinder?

One surefire way to make an engine more powerful is to add extra cylinders to it. A 4-Cylinder engine is efficient, but puny. A V6 is pretty good. A V8 is impossibly powerful, but gets very poor gas mileage. That's traditional wisdom on the subject, anyway. But what if we told you Ford was shaving a cylinder off their smallest engine, and making it more powerful at the same time? Thanks to advances in Turbocharging-- a process by which extra air is forced through the engine-- power outpu
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