Tests and Features

All everyone’s talking about these days is autonomous cars. Both disparaged and hailed, these self-driving cars are still very rare. At most, a handful of Tesla owners can aspire, to a certain extent, to the nirvana known as the driverless experience. Pilot projects are popping up here and there, like …

Last week, when The Car Guide dropped by Ford’s head offices in Dearborn to attend seven conferences in two days—covering hypothetical market trends in today’s society—we also got some time to have a little fun. Before the end of these, conference-filled days, probably to seek redemption for putting us through …

Yeah, yeah, we know. If we made an announcement every time we drove a Ford, the social networks would be inundated. It’s just that this time, we’re going to drive a self-driving Ford , which begs the question: is “drive” really the right word for what we’re going to do?

By now, you probably know that the current generation of the Ford F-150 is built with aluminum body panels, and that it offers several powertrains, including two turbocharged V6 engines. It’s never an easy choice for us to decide which full-size pickup we prefer, as the Chevrolet Silverado 1500, GMC …

Whether we like it or not, Ford is the leader in the world of pickup trucks. Its vehicles aren’t perfect, but the Dearborn automaker has plenty of experience in the field. The pickups wearing the Blue Oval—which seems to get bigger and bigger on their front grille—are technically advanced and …

The Focus RS was once a unicorn—a car that all had sworn existed, but no one in North America had ever seen with their own eyes. Then, one day, a wizard at Ford ’s HQ waved his magic wand and poof, the RS was suddenly real. The 2016 Ford Focus …

At the recent 2017 Ford Escape media drive, we were introduced to Ford Connect and FordPass, the company’s new connectivity features for owners of new Ford vehicles. Buyers of 2017 Ford cars and trucks equipped with the new SYNC 3 infotainment system—much improved over the previous MyFord Touch, by the …

If you drive a Freightliner 122SD, you might not be too impressed with those little F-250, F-350 and F-450 models from Ford. However, for most people, the Super Duty series is quite massive. This week, The Car Guide will be heading to Colorado to try out this workhorse. For 2017, …

The Ford Fusion has never been happy playing second fiddle in the midsize sedan segment. Since the release of the second-generation Fusion in 2013, Ford has gone the extra mile to offer a superior product. And from now on, this vehicle will no longer be built in different forms to …