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The 2017 Ford F-150 Leads Its Competition

Recently, the new F-150 was recognized for its outstanding power and performance over its competitors.

 

With the recent inclusion of the all-new 3.5-liter EcoBoost® V6 engine, the 2017 F-150 has earned best-in-class status thanks to its powerful 375 horsepower performance and segment-leading 470 lb.-ft of torque, making this legendary pickup truck a force to be reckoned with.

 

 

 

 

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Ford Donates to Fund California Startup

To stay on the cutting-edge of technology, Ford has recently donated to a California-based startup company dedicated to making three-dimensional maps for future autonomous vehicles.

 
 

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The automaker, along with three other companies, donated over $6.6 million in seed funding to Civil Maps in order to help jumpstart this technological boom. Civil Maps will use artificial-intelligence to collect data from sensors on self-driving vehicles.

 

 

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Ford Announces New Videos to Help Answer Common Financing Questions

Just 24 percent of millennials, and only 40 percent of Americans overall, can answer common questions about vehicle financing, according to research from the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) Investor Education Foundation. For this reason, Ford Credit announced a new series of videos designed to deliver this information in an easy to understand format...

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Fashion Week and Ford: a Beautiful Thing

This week, the world of fashion celebrates as London is immersed in gorgeous designs, color and textiles. It’s London Fashion Week and a small window of time in which designers and their teams experience a rush watching their creations walk down the runway.

For someone like Stella, seeing her own designs on the runway would be a dream come true. Stella is a fashion designer from France who has been creating captivating clothes and accessories since childhood.

 

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The 1965 Ford Mustang: Love at First Sight

For young mother, Terry Maxfield, it was love at first sight. She’d gone to the Ohio dealership to look for a family vehicle. She was expecting a baby and already had a toddler. But when she saw the beautiful, blue 1965 Ford Mustang, she knew that it was her car.

She drove it off the lot and the rest, as they say, is history. The two have spent 50 years together and covered many miles of road.

Sometimes though, life circumstances change and Terry, sadly, had to find a new home for her beautiful blue Mustang.

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My Ford Gives You Advice in the Event of Winter Driving Disaster

Winter driving is anything but fun. We at Orleans Ford understand this. You never know what you're going to encounter on the road -- especially when it's a slippery, sludgy mess. Will the biggest storm of the year hit while you're driving home from work? Will you slide into a snowbank while driving the kids to school? Will windshield-wiper fluid freeze and cause smudges on the glass, impairing your vision, subsequently causing you to slam into a telephone pole? These questions and others are addressed in My Ford's latest winter safety article. Check it out in the…

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Mustang Shelby GT350R Roars Away with Road and Tracks PCOTY Honors

Here at Orleans Ford, we're quite partial to the iconic styling and muscular bravado of the new Mustang. So of course we're big fans of the super powered Shelby GT350R, with it's 5.2-liter V-8 engine, that puts out 526 horsepower and 429 pound-feet of torque. The folks of Road and Track magazine seem to agree with us; just take a look at the results of their 2016 Performance Car of the Year test...

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