NEWS

EUROPEAN car sales fell 6.7 percent in April as scrappage schemes ended across many nations.
Germany’s scrappage scheme ended a while back – Italy’s now has too, meaning both markets have actually started falling.
After its recent success, JATO Dynamics says it is Ford that’s been hit. Sales of the blue oval have not only fallen in [...]

FORD is stretching its advantage over rival car brands with an even better performance in April.

It boasts a 27,824-car lead over the next-best selling brand in the UK.
This is nearly 6500 units more than the lead it had at the same time in 2009. It is strong sales across the range of cars that has [...]

FORD dealers are to receive yet another Fiesta boost with the news Ford has standardised ESP stability control.
All Fiesta models now get ESP as standard – previously, it was a £300 option.
The move will help Ford dealers promote the car’s safety aspects, particularly as not all rivals have ESP as standard on all versions yet.
Hyundai, [...]

FORD’S Fiesta continues its market leading sales position by becoming Europe’s best-seller, too!
March sales saw it take the slot from the Volkswagen Golf by a hefty 11,785 units.
It’s also thus now ahead in the year-to-date sales, too – 140,496, compared to the Golf’s 135,048. This performance was aided by a near-26 percent jump in Ford [...]

FORD once again took the top 2 sales slots in the UK new car sales chart with the Fiesta top dog.
It was followed up by the Ford Focus, continuing a Ford 1-2 trend.
Other brands had reason to celebrate too, though. Hyundai came in 8th with its scrappage-smash-hit i10, while the Audi A3 was also a [...]

FORD Fiesta buyers have voted the supermini best car of 2009 by buying it in greater numbers than any other new car.
SMMT figures show the Fiesta is way ahead of the rest, with 117,296 sales.
Bosses at Ford are celebrating further too, as the Focus came out in 2nd place overall in the new car [...]

FORD is hoping its new 76mpg Fiesta Econetic Van can help it to 25 percent of the small van sector.
The new eco model is now on sale, costing from £11,635.
Emitting a tiny 98g/km of CO2, it’s one of the greenest vans in the world, and will help provide big fuel savings to fleets. There may [...]

FORD has just introduced its first special edition version of the current Fiesta with a high specification new trim.
Coming on the back of a recent minor trim line-up reshuffle, the new Titanium Individual offers a really special standard spec.
Ford says it has premium car features, for a saving of £100 over a regular Titanium [...]

SEPTEMBER 2009 new car sales took the year-to-date total up to 1,517,039, with Ford’s Fiesta topping the chart.
The figures are still 15 percent behind last year’s numbers, but the decline is far lower than many feared.
At this point last year, 1,794,419 new cars had been sold. In 2009, it is the decline in fleet sales [...]

FORD sold 26 percent more Fiestas in July – and, again, it’s scrappage that’s to thank for the increase.
44 percent of Fiesta sales have now come under the scrappage scheme – from a total of nearly 4000 scrappage Ford sales in July.
So far, the brand has recorded 16,500 new car scrap scheme registrations.
But it’s not [...]