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  • **FILE** Sport utility vehicles sit at a Lincoln Mercury dealership in Northern Virginia on Dec. 17, 2008. (The Washington Times)

    Lincoln to cut dealerships to revive brand

    Ford Motor Co. plans to eliminate more than a third of its Lincoln dealers in large metropolitan areas over the next two years as part of its effort to revive the luxury brand, according to a dealer who attended a closed-door meeting Tuesday.

  • Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood mimics cell phone use as he talks about distracted driving duirng a press conference at the Department of Transportation in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 9, 2010, announcing the lowest traffic fatalities in six decades. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

    Summit calls for reduction in distracted driving

    Making sure drivers keep their eyes on the road will require a network of tough laws, enforcement by police and personal responsibility, the government said Tuesday.

  • Lawyer: Ford, family settle in player crash death

    Ford Motor Co. on Thursday settled a Mississippi lawsuit over a 2001 accident in which a New York Mets prospect was killed when his SUV crashed in the Florida Panhandle, a lawyer for the player's family said.

  • Billionaire Jeff Greene, Democratic candidate for Florida Senate, is laying out a reported $24 million to challenge Rep. Kendrick B. Meek. (Associated Press)

    Campaigns get down to business sense

    "One tough nerd." "One chance" to fix things. An invitation to "reinvent" Michigan — a state straining mightily against its manufacturing past and still firmly caught in the recession's coils.

  • President Obama tours the Ford Motor Co. Chicago assembly plant with Ford executive Mark Fields (left) and plant manager Jan Allman on Thursday, Aug. 5, 2010. The Chicago plant will begin production of a new 2011 Ford Explorer. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

    Obama: Auto bailout saved 1 million jobs

    Touring a Ford Motor Co. plant in his hometown of Chicago, President Obama on Thursday said his administration's $60 billion bailout of the auto industry may not have been popular but saved some 1 million jobs in the midst of a deep recession.

  • ** FILE ** Ford Motor Company unveils the 2011 Ford Explorer during a news conference in New York, Monday, July 26, 2010. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

    U.S. auto sales rise in July, thanks to ads, credit

    Every major automaker in the U.S. topped their June sales in July except Ford and Daimler.

  • Group leaders work on a pre-production 2012 Ford Focus at the Michigan Assembly Plant in Wayne, Mich., Thursday, July 22, 2010. Ford Motor Co. said Friday, July 23, 2010, it posted net income of $2.6 billion in the second quarter as it continued to grab sales from rivals in a slowly recovering U.S. market. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

    Ford posts another quarterly profit as sales climb

    Ford Motor Co. posted a strong second-quarter profit Friday, but trimmed its U.S. sales forecast and predicted weaker results in the second half as the economy slowly recovers.

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Glenn Wilder, owner of an auto-repair garage in Scituate, Mass., and others are pushing the state legislature to pass a bill they say would enable them to get the computer codes they need to repair cars on an equal footing with auto dealerships.

    Mechanics take on automakers

    When Mary Burke recently took her 2007 Honda Element with its worn-out ignition switch to her regular repair shop, the mechanic didn't have the software to fix the problem.

  • Styling of 1966 Thunderbird is an attention grabber

    In the early years of the Thunderbird, the body styles were changed every three years, the fourth generation being built during 1964, 1965 and 1966.

  • As economy sputters, auto sales drive of cliff

    Detroit's Big Three automakers all saw U.S. sales of their vehicles decline by 12 percent or more in June, compared with May, and Toyota did even worse - a sign that the auto industry and the general economy remain fragile.

  • ** FILE ** General Motors vehicles are displayed at the GM headquarters in Detroit on Thursday, July 9, 2009. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

    Detroit 3 see auto sales drop by more than 10%

    Detroit's Big Three auto makers -- Ford, Chrysler and GM -- each saw U.S. sales of their vehicles decline by more than 10 percent in June, compared to May, in a sign that the economic recovery remains fragile.

  • U.S. cars top foreign brands on quality survey

    U.S. automakers topped their foreign counterparts for the first time in a new survey.

  • FILE - In this file photo taken June 28, 2007, a 1950s vintage Mercury Montclair auto waits on College Street in New Haven, Conn. Ford Motor Co. announced June 2, 2010, that it would drop its 72-year-old Mercury brand, the latest example of an American auto giant shedding one of its divisions. (AP Photo/Bob Child, File)

    Ford to drop Mercury brand

    Ford Motor Co. announced Wednesday afternoon in a press conference in Dearborn, Mich., that it would drop its 72-year-old Mercury brand, the latest example of an American auto giant shedding one of its divisions.

  • FILE - In this file photo taken June 28, 2007, a 1950s vintage Mercury Montclair auto waits on College Street in New Haven, Conn. Ford Motor Co. announced June 2, 2010, that it would drop its 72-year-old Mercury brand, the latest example of an American auto giant shedding one of its divisions. (AP Photo/Bob Child, File)

    Ford to drop Mercury line at year's end

    Ford Motor Co. announced that it would drop its 72-year-old Mercury brand, the latest example of an American auto giant shedding one of its divisions in an increasingly competitive marketplace.

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A Ford SUV sits on display in front of the Ford Michigan Truck Plant in Wayne, Mich. The company will be cutting production as a result of high gas prices and a sluggish economy.

    Ford cuts output of SUVs, trucks

    Ford Motor Co., which dropped its goal of becoming profitable by 2009 and said it will cut production of trucks and sport utility vehicles through the rest of this year. It was a warning shot to the rest of the beleaguered U.S. auto industry, which is facing its worst sales in more than a decade.

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