Ford Taurus News
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If you visit this site regularly, you’ll know that we usually only cover smaller, more fuel efficient cars and those powered by alternative fuels like electricity, hydrogen or biofuels. But yesterday the EPA certified the 2013 Ford Taurus 2.0-liter Ecoboost with gas mileage figures never seen before in the segment: 32 MPG highway and 26 MPG combined. For reference, that’s the same gas mileage figures as it gave the 2009 Mini Clubman, a car which we’re sure you’ll agree is much, much smaller. Powered by a 2.0-liter four-cylinder, turbocharged engine, the 2013 Ford...
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Forget Hydrogen: Here They Are, The Two Fuels of The Future
Forget hydrogen. You can mostly ignore natural gas. Even diesel may not grow much. The two fuels that will largely power us for the next 20, maybe 30, years are already here. They are gasoline (with some ethanol in it), and electricity. That's it. That's all she wrote. First, gasoline Those...
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More Ethanol In Gasoline: 'Minimal Risk' To Old Cars, Study Says
We've written before about just how worried automakers are at proposals by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to increase the ethanol content of pump gasoline from 10 to 12 or even 15 percent. They fear it will damage older cars whose engines and fuel systems were never designed to handle...
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Smaller-More-Efficient Engines II: Ford EcoBoost Effort Expands
We said it on Friday: Smaller, more efficient engines are going to be the main way we increase gas mileage in the next few years (in that case, a four-cylinder 2010 Buick LaCrosse). This morning, Ford has underlined that theme once more by announcing three new applications of their EcoBoost engines...
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Your New Car Is Made Of Old Carpet, Milk Jugs, and Ripped Jeans
When you think of a brand-new, gleaming, 2010 model car rolling out of your driveway, what materials come to mind? Steel, chrome, soft-touch interior plastics, maybe even supple leather upholstery? Well, how about some old carpets, ground-up milk cartons, and shredded, faded, raggedy blue jeans?...
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Ford Talks Sustainability at 2009 Denver Auto Show: 4 New Electrified Vehicles in Next 4 Years
Ford Shares Their Plans for a Sustainable Future
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Ford's new V6 EcoBoost engine lowers fuel economy while raising power; it'll appear first in the 2010 Taurus SHO