New Ford Cars

A definitive American sedan, the Crown Victoria appeals most to drivers who remember first-hand the classic cars from the 1960s. Otherwise, the Crown Vic is best left to the professionals.

If you're a mainstream automaker, two things ought to be at the core of your product lineup: a mid-size crossover utility vehicle and a modern six-cylinder powertrain. Any manufacturer that hasn't mastered those fundamentals by the 2007 model year hardly has a

The Escape gets a face-lift that would make Joan Rivers proud.

Ford stands tall in the full-size SUV arena, with generous safety gear, a well-executed cabin, a standout suspension, and a solid, overall package.

The first-generation Ford Explorer Sport Trac rode on the bones of the 1991 Explorer (which was itself derived from the 1980s-era Ranger), and while its combination of an SUV cabin and a short pickup bed was intriguing, its meager underpinnings betrayed its ap

Over thundering exhaust noise, I can almost hear Steve Saleen talking loudly behind my right shoulder. With his hands clenching my headrest, he's probably explaining how it is that I've just accelerated to 100 mph before realizing I had so much as pushed the p

An efficiently packaged, well-mannered, safe, and conservative sedan.

Reconfigured with less go but more gigabytes. The Focus lost its angular, artistic interior design in 2005, but at least the new coupe and sedan feature better materials and the Sync media system.

The well-composed Freestyle is the crossover vehicle that most Explorer intenders should consider, with better road manners, interior packaging, fuel economy, and sticker price.

Nine hundred dollars well-spent.

There's a great scene toward the end of John Frankenheimer's epic movie, Grand Prix, where James Garner, as the troubled racing ace Pete Aron, drives slowly through the crowded paddock at Monza in his rental car before the season's final round. The fact that h

When the current Ford Ranger began its life in 1992, it cast a large footprint in the market. Its initial advantages in size over the truly compact competitors gave it an edge, but that was soon tempered by concessions in refinement as fresh competition rolled out by the mid-1990s.

What's in a name change? The interior and exterior have been fancified, but we know there's still a Five Hundred under there.