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  • 2011 Lincoln MKZ Hybrid

    Gas or Hybrid, When They Are the Same Price How Do You Choose?

  • 2011 Lincoln MKZ Hybrid
    2011 Lincoln MKZ Hybrid Priced From $35,180--Same As Gas Only Model

    With a fuel economy of 36 mpg in the city and 41 mpg on the highway, the new 2011 Lincoln MKZ Hybrid already lays claim to the title of being the world’s most fuel efficient luxury sedan, and now it’s making the headlines once again. Lincoln will sell its new hybrid at the same base price as...

  • Ford Focus BEV for The Jay Leno Show's Green Car Challenge
    One In Four Fords Could Feature Alternative Power By 2020

    Ford is at the forefront of the alternative power push, having been one of the first on the market with a hybrid vehicle and now less than a year away from launching its first all-electric model. However, we are still at the start of the alternative power revolution but in as little as a decade we...

  • Green Car News: Lincoln MKZ Hybrid Hits 41 MPG

    With the impending death of the Mercury Milan Hybrid, there's just one luxury sedan that gets the EPA's top fuel economy ranking for the 2011 model year--and that would be the Milan's surviving sister, the 2011 Lincoln MKZ Hybrid. While it waits patiently for an on-sale date this fall, the MKZ...

  • 2011 Lincoln MKZ Hybrid
    2011 Lincoln MKZ Hybrid Earns 41-MPG Rating

    We've told you about the Lincoln MKZ Hybrid awaiting an on-sale date later this year. Now, Ford's confirming that its ritzy cousin to the Ford Fusion Hybrid will hit the same 41-mpg city fuel economy rating. The MKZ Hybrid's EPA fuel economy will be 41/36 mpg when it goes on sale later this year...

  • 2010 Ford Fusion Hybrid
    Ford Fusion Hybrid Fastest To Pay Off Premium

    When it comes to hybrids, there are two main factors that motivate buyers into paying the premium the vehicles demand over comparable non-hybrid models: money and the environment. Hybrids are cleaner than regular models in that they consume less fuel and thus produce fewer emissions, but at the...

  • 2009 Ford Escape Hybrid used by NYPD traffic unit, by Samuel Smith from NYCPDcars.50webs.com

    As New York City works aggressively to reduce its carbon footprint and cut exhaust emissions, it has encouraged large fleets to switch to hybrids. From utility ConEd to the fleets of yellow cabs, more and more hybrids are showing up on city streets. The latest large fleet to go greener is the New York Police Department, which will add 200 Ford Fusion Hybrid sedans and Ford Escape Hybrid crossovers to its fleet this year alone. The new vehicles will double the department's fleet of hybrids to roughly 400. The NYPD runs a large number of Ford Crown Victoria full-size sedans, one of Ford's most...

  • RMAP Outstanding Car Awards Presentation by Sara Lacey, RMAP Secretary
    2010 Denver Auto Show: RMAP Gives Awards For Outstanding Cars

    The Rocky Mountain Auto Press Selects Cars In Four Separate Categories

  • 2011 Buick Regal at 2010 Denver Auto Show
    2010 Denver Auto Show Opens With Long Line For Tickets

    The Weather Was Good and the People Were Eager

  • Colorado Green Car Convoy in Frisco
    Ramp Up To 2010 Denver Auto Show: Green Car Convoy

    Manufactures and Dealers Come Together To Show the Best of Green Cars

  • 2011 Lincoln MKZ Hybrid
    2010 New York Auto Show: 2011 Lincoln MKZ Hybrid

    Hybrids originally came from mass-market brands--Toyota, Honda, then Ford--before they ascended into loftier realms (Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Porsche). Now Ford is taking its well-received hybrid sedans upscale, by adding a hybrid model to the 2011 Lincoln MKZ lineup. The MKZ, although it shares a...

  • 2010 Nissan Altima Hybrid
    Green-Car Tip: Hybrid Vehicles Get Discounts, Incentives Too

    While the auto industry in general offers an average incentive of more than $1,000 off the sticker price of any new vehicle, many buyers somehow assume this doesn't apply to hybrids. Oh, but it does. You can get money off pretty much any hybrid out there at the moment, since gasoline prices are far...

  • 2010 Ford Fusion Hybrid

    Just yesterday, we reported on Ford's first-ever 300 hp/30 mpg ratings for the 2011 Mustang. The company has vowed to achieve best-in-class fuel economy numbers for every new model it launches. Certainly the 2010 Ford Fusion Hybrid clears that bar, trouncing any other mid-size sedan with an EPA fuel economy rating of 41 mpg city, 36 mpg highway. Camry Hybrid lags behind By comparison, the Toyota Camry Hybrid gets 33/34 mpg, and the Nissan Altima hybrid is rated at 35/33 mpg. Now Ford [NYSE:F] sales data shows that the Fusion Hybrid is bringing in more buyers new to Ford than ever before, with...

  • 2010 Ford Fusion Hybrid
    New Hybrid Braking Issue: First Prius, Now Ford Fusion Hybrid

    Another day, another hybrid braking problem. Only this time, it's not Toyota. It's Ford. Late yesterday, Ford announced a "customer satisfaction program" that will ask that owners of 2010 Ford Fusion Hybrid and 2010 Mercury Milan Hybrid models built before October 17 to bring the cars to their...

  • 2010 Ford Fusion Hybrid
    Edmunds Consumer Poll Puts 2010 Ford Fusion As Top Hybrid

    Ford Seems To Be Taking More Market Share From Toyota

  • Ford's Nancy Gioia at 2008 Detroit Auto Show
    Five Questions: Nancy Gioia, Ford global electrification director

    Ford was the first U.S. automaker to offer a hybrid, introducing the Ford Escape Hybrid crossover in 2004. It recently expanded its portfolio with the well-received 2010 Ford Fusion Hybrid. More recently, the company has announced plans for limited numbers of plug-in hybrids, as well as electric...

  • Ford CEO Alan Mulally at 2010 Washington DC Auto Show
    Ford CEO: Fuel-Efficient Engines Pose Tough Fight for Hybrids

    Ford has built hundreds of thousands of hybrids since 2004, but unlike Toyota, it hasn't staked its future on the pricey technology that mates an electric motor to a combustion engine. Ford's CEO Alan Mulally says that's because hybrids will face continuing competition from increasingly more...

  • Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm, at Ford plant announcement
    2010 Detroit Auto Show: Ford To Bring Hybrid Batteries Back Home

    Ford was on a roll at this year's Detroit Auto Show. It launched its new 2011 Ford Focus compact sedan and hatchback, which got rave reviews, and its 2010 Ford Fusion Hybrid won North American Car of the Year. The company added a late-breaking press conference on Monday to make a further...

  • 2010 Ford Fusion Hybrid IP

    Today was the first press-only day at the 2010 North American International Auto Show in Detroit, and while it was blustery and miserable outside, inside the Cobo Center, it was divine, chrome and carbon fiber as far as the eye could see. I started at the gigantic Ford display, and as I approached, they were wheeling in the 2010 North American Car of the Year, the 2010 Fusion Hybrid. I have always loved this car. It impressed me from the moment I first laid eyes on it, and especially once I got behind the wheel. I liked it more than the third-gen Toyota Prius, more than the Camry Hybrid. This...

  • 2010 Audi A3 TDI named Green Car of the Year, 2009 LA Auto Show
    Green Car Sales: Winners and Losers of 2009

    It's beginning to look as if the worst is over for U.S. auto sales. The year that just closed was, in the immortal words of Queen Elizabeth II, an annus horribilis, with only 10.4 million vehicles sold, down 21 percent on 2008 and the lowest total since 1982. But some light seems to be appearing on...

  • 2010 Ford Fusion Hybrid 4-door Sedan Hybrid FWD Grille
    A Year In Review: Ford In 2009

    We Take a Look Back At Ford In 2009

  • 2010 Toyota Prius rolls onto the Detroit stage at its global debut in January 2009
    EPA's Most Climate-Friendly Cars: All About Fuel Efficiency

    The dirty little secrets of Top 10 lists are in the methodology, as Forbes found out with its weirdly inaccurate "10 Dirtiest Cars" list. (It's the end of the year, so it's time for a lot of Top 10s.) But we see no such problems in the EPA Green Vehicle Guide, which rates vehicles not only on...

  • 2010 Ford Fusion Hybrid
    Ford Fusion Hybrid, Keep the Awards Coming

    Back at it again, the Ford Fusion Hybrid has won yet another award.  Add this new one to the list which includes the vehicles recent selection as Car and Driver's 10 Best.  The newest award presented to the 2010 Ford Fusion Hybrid is the 2010 Earth, Wind, & Power Award for green car of the...

  • 2010 Ford Fusion Hybrid
    Car and Driver Names Ford Fusion Hybrid one of 10 Best

    Ford might need to upsize their trophy case for all the awards the new Fusion is winning. Just two weeks ago, the Fusion was awarded Motor Trend's golden calipers as the 2010 Car of the Year, beating out the Honda Insight, the Lexus HS 250h, and the Toyota Prius, among numerous others. Now Car and...

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