Ford Fusion hybrid, Transit Connect win coveted North American Car of the Year and North American Truck of the Year awards at Detroit auto show
Ford Motor vehicles won North American Car and Truck of the Year -- twin honors bestowed by a jury of 49 journalists representing dozens of newspapers, magazines, on-line publications as well as free-lance writers and editors. It was the first time in the award's 17 years that one company won both the car and truck awards. Fusion hybrid won car and Transit Connect, a Euro-designed small commercial van modified for the U.S. market, took top truck honors.The North American Car and Truck of the Year (NACTOY) is considered unusually credible because the panel of judges is diverse and not subject to pressure from advertisers, as a single publication would be when awarding an "of the yea...
Ford Fusion Hybrid, Transit Connect sweep car, truck honors at Detroit auto show
The 2010 Ford Fusion Hybrid earned the Car of the Year award, and the 2010 Ford Transit Connect won Truck of the Year honors, officials announced this ...
Ford Sweeps Car/Truck of the Year Honors
DETROIT (WXYZ) - The Ford Transit Connect and the Ford Fusion Hybrid have been named the North American Car and Truck of the Year at the North American ...
2010 Ford Transit Connect review
Nope. There's no insulation along the cabin walls, only a thin cloth liner along the roof and an equally thin vinyl strip over the floor in back to filter ...
Ford Transit Connect Finally Comes to US
By AP The new Ford Transit Connect has a strange name, a compact European delivery van appearance and a ceiling that's so tall, someone sitting in the ...
Ford Transit Connect Launches in US
Finally, the new Ford Transit Connect has launched In US. The new Ford Transit Connect has a strange name, a compact European delivery van appearance and a ...
2010 North American Car and Truck of the Year Winners Announced
... selected the Ford Fusion Hybrid as the 2010 North American Car of the Year and the Ford Transit Connect as the 2010 North American Truck of the Year. ...
Detroit Free Press 2010 Truck of the Year
The 2010 Ford Transit Connect deserves to be the first of many. A mere 1.9 inches longer than a Toyota Corolla compact sedan, ...
Optimism at Detroit auto show as industry banks on recovery
Ford got a boost Monday when its 2010 Ford Fusion Hybrid sedan and Ford Transit Connect truck won the best car and truck of the year respectively by a vote of a panel automotive journalists.While the restructuring of GM and Chrysler under bankruptcy protection was extremely painful, it has left Detroit in a much stronger position, GM vice chairman Bob Lutz said Sunday."I'm genuinely optimistic about the future," Lutz told the Society for Automotive Analysts' annual conference.The Detroit Three, which also include Ford, have dramatically reduced their fixed costs after years of painful cuts and Lutz said GM's balance sheet is in the strongest position in decades."D...
The Augusta Chronicle
The first What Is It? photo of the new year showed a section of the brand-new 2010 Ford Transit Connect -- a difficult name for a tiny work and passenger ...