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Junkyard Find: 2007 Ford Taurus SE

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The original Ford Taurus first appeared as a 1986 model , going through three generations and nearly 10 million sales (counting the Mercury Sable ) before getting the axe in October of 2006. That made 2007 the final model year for the "real" Taurus, and I've found one of these rare cars in a New Orleans self-service junkyard.

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Junkyard Find: 2007 Saturn Vue Green Line

The Truth About Cars

Honda beat everybody to the production gasoline-electric hybrid game in the United States, putting the Insight in showrooms in 1999. That car was the 2007 Saturn Vue Green Line, and I managed to find one in a Denver-area car graveyard recently. A 2007 Saturn Vue Green Line hybrid in a Colorado wrecking yard.

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GM pushes again on UAW calls for to revive advantages misplaced since 2007

Baua Electric

The union officially offered its financial proposals extreme year to GM, Ford Motor Co. 14 cut-off date that might supremacy to production-crippling moves. ” The post GM pushes again on UAW calls for to revive advantages misplaced since 2007 appeared first on Bauaelectric Auto News.

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Coca-Cola Company and Ford unveil Ford Fusion Energi with PlantBottle Technology interior

Green Car Congress

The Coca-Cola Company and Ford Motor Company are collaborating on the first interior fabric made from the same renewable material used to produce Coca-Cola’s PlantBottle Technology packaging. The Ford Fusion Energi research vehicle will be on display later this month at the Los Angeles Auto Show.

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Ford expands use of near-dry machining to six plants worldwide

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Ford Motor Company has added its near-dry machining process—Minimum Quantity Lubrication (MQL)—to six plants globally, a number that will nearly double in the next few years. For a typical production line, MQL can save more than 280,000 gallons (1 million liters) of water per year, Ford says. Right: MQL machining.

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Ford Begins EcoBoost Engine Production

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Ford Motor Company began production of its EcoBoost engines ( earlier post ) at Cleveland Engine Plant No. Ford invested $55 million to retool and reopen the plant, which had been idled in 2007. The EcoBoost begins production. 1 opened in 1951 as Ford’s first engine plant in Ohio. Click to enlarge.

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Ford planning to cut 18% of production capacity, 13% of workforce in Europe; anticipating more than $1.5B loss in Europe in 2012

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The actions—along with a previously announced initiative to reduce approximately 500 salaried and agency positions across Europe, with the Ford salaried reductions achieved voluntarily—affect 6,200 positions or about 13% of Ford’s European workforce. Ford plans to close the two facilities in the UK in 2013.

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