Ford’s industry-exclusive technologies – rear inflatable seat belts, MyFord Touch™ and MyKey® – each received top honors as 2011 Edison Best New Product Award winners by grabbing the Gold in their respective categories SYNC® AppLink captured recognition as a Silver award winner, second only to MyFord Touch in the Transportation – In-Car Driving Aids category [...]
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Ford SYNC 911 Assist: Non-Subscription Emergency Service Available in 2 Million Vehicles Provides Peace of Mind | Ford Motor Company Newsroom
SYNC® 911 Assist™ quickly connects accident victims directly with 911 operators and is now equipped on 2 million vehicles With SYNC 911 Assist, there is no need to worry about renewing or paying for any kind of subscription There is no middleman or call center between vehicle occupants and those trying to help the victims, [...]
Ford Fiesta Becomes Segment’s First to Earn Top Safety Ratings in World’s Largest Auto Markets | see them at McMahon Ford your St. Louis Ford Dealership
Ford Fiesta adds five-star safety rating in China to similar top ratings in Europe and Australia/New Zealand Fiesta reaches 1 million sales in Europe, total global sales are 1,140,000 In North America, the 2011 Ford Fiesta earned a Top Safety Pick from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety – the first car in its segment [...]
FORD ACCELERATES INTELLIGENT VEHICLE RESEARCH, CREATING ‘TALKING’ VEHICLES TO MAKE ROADS SAFER | Ford Motor Company Newsroom
Ford is rapidly expanding its commitment to intelligent vehicles that wirelessly talk to each other, warning of potential dangers to enhance safety and flag impending traffic congestion to help improve the environment Intelligent vehicles could potentially help in 81 percent of all police-reported light-vehicle crashes involving unimpaired drivers, according to a National Highway Traffic Safety [...]
REINVENTED 2011 FORD EXPLORER EARNS IIHS TOP SAFETY PICK; DELIVERS SUITE OF STANDARD SAFETY FEATURES | see them at McMahon Ford your St. Louis Ford Dealership
DEARBORN, Mich., Dec. 22, 2010 – The reinvented 2011 Ford Explorer, which offers a suite of innovative safety technologies, is the latest Ford vehicle to earn a Top Safety Pick rating from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. Ford now has eight vehicles on the road in the U.S. that have earned Top Safety Picks, [...]
NEW 2012 FORD FOCUS CRASHED MORE THAN 12,000 TIMES IN VIRTUAL AND REAL WORLD TESTS | Ford Motor Company Newsroom
Ford engineers expanded safety testing for the new 2012 Ford Focus, including more than 12,000 virtual and real-world crash tests globally, to prove out its new safety technologies The new Focus features advanced restraint systems with innovative next-generation airbags that provide enhanced chest protection Ford Focus also provides enhanced side crash protection through a specialized [...]
FORD TO COMPLETE REAR CAMERA ROLL-OUT ON NEARLY ALL MODELS | See them at McMahon Ford your St. Louis Ford Dealership
DEARBORN, Mich., Dec. 3 – Ford Motor Company will continue its aggressive technology onslaught by completing the roll-out of its innovative Rear View Camera System that will be available on nearly all Ford and Lincoln models by the end of 2011. “Ford is making new innovations such as the Rear View Camera System available to [...]
FORD WINS POPULAR SCIENCE ‘BEST OF WHAT’S NEW’ FOR INFLATABLE REAR BELTS, FIESTA SMALL CAR | Ford Motor Company Newsroom
Ford honored for inflatable rear seat belts and its 2011 Fiesta in latest edition of Popular Science“Best of What’s New” awards Inflatable belts combine safety features of seat belts and airbags to help protect vulnerable rear seat passengers from head, neck and chest injuries in an accident Ford Fiesta delivers best-in-class connectivity with its segment-exclusive SYNC® [...]
ALL-NEW FORD FOCUS LAUNCHES EXCLUSIVE AIRBAG TECHNOLOGIES THAT ENHANCE CRASH PROTECTION | at your St. Louis Ford Dealership
All-new 2012 Ford Focus will offer an exclusive suite of innovative airbags that help customize protection in the most common frontal and side crashes Focus is launching Ford’s next-generation driver-front airbag with enhanced chest protection technology designed to help reduce chest and rib injuries Innovative side airbags help enhance chest protection for front seat occupants [...]
SMALL IS SAFE: FORD FIESTA EARNS 2010 TOP SAFETY PICK | See it at a St. Louis Ford Dealership
The 2011 Ford Fiesta has earned a 2010 Top Safety Pick from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) – it is the first mini-car to do so since the introduction of a new roof strength test Fiesta’s energy-absorbing body structure is optimized for strength and stiffness and designed to absorb and redirect crash forces [...]
FORD RESEARCHERS ADVANCING CRASH AVOIDANCE CAPABILITY WITH WIRELESS TECHNOLOGY | Ford Motor Company Newsroom
FORD RESEARCHERS ADVANCING CRASH AVOIDANCE CAPABILITY WITH WIRELESS TECHNOLOGY Ford researchers are advancing vehicle safety with the development of new crash avoidance systems that use wireless vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure communications to detect and respond to imminent collisions Ford’s research into wireless “active safety” applications includes its vehicle-to-infrastructure Smart Intersection project Ford is conducting cooperative vehicle-to-vehicle [...]
