All-new Ford EcoSport: A closer look!
The all-new Ford EcoSport wowed car lovers across the world when our global team unveiled the car in New Delhi yesterday. If you’re hungry for more on the compact SUV that everyone’s talking about, we’ve got some pictures to excite you. These are early design sketches of the vehicle, straight from the team behind the [...]
Here’s the all-new Ford EcoSport!
The wait is over, folks! Welcome the newest member of the global Ford family—the all-new Ford EcoSport. Pictures here: Set 1, 2, 3. The all-new Ford EcoSport was unveiled a short while ago in New Delhi at a preview event to the Auto Expo 2012 in the capital. Present at the unveil were Alan Mulally, [...]
Gujarat plant news: Groundbreaking at Sanand
A short while ago, we broke ground at Sanand, Gujarat for our new, state-of-the-art integrated manufacturing facility. The facility will house new vehicle manufacturing and engine plants. The first vehicles and engines are scheduled to come off the line in 2014. Ford leadership during the Gujarat plant groundbreaking ceremony As we announced a few weeks [...]
Ford India’s DSFL: Driving for safer roads, greener India
By the time you finish reading this, more than 25 people will have died or been injured as a result of a motor vehicle accident, on average. India has the highest motor vehicle injury and fatality rate in the world. On-road safety has never been this important. As part of our commitment to promote a [...]
July 2011 News: Sales up 45%, new plants in Gujarat
What a difference a year can make. From just 49,000-odd cars last year from Jan to July, we sold 71,347 vehicles in the first seven months of 2011. That’s a jump of 45 per cent! And this sales performance reinforces our recent decision to build new Ford manufacturing facilities in Gujarat. We are also expanding [...]
June news: 1 lakh Figos sold, Ford India sales up 53%
In June 2011, we delivered our 100,000th Figo while our increased sales by 53 percent for the year. Ford India sold more than 60,000 cars (wholesale and export vehicles) from January to June 2011, compared to 39,465 cars sold during the same period last year. In June alone, we sold 9,145 vehicles, compared to 8,483 units [...]
Ford CSR: Rebuilding schools for better education
“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” –William Butler Yeats At Ford India, building the best possible future for our children is as important as building the best cars. Helping the children from our local communities get good education in the right environment has topped our priorities over [...]
Ford among the best employers in India for the 3rd successive year
Hurrah! We have been selected as one of the 25 Best Employers in India 2011 in an extensive nationwide study conducted by Aon Hewitt, a global human resources consultancy services company. Ford in India was ranked 17th and has earned the unique distinction of being the only Indian automobile manufacturer to have made it to [...]
Ford India’s strong business momentum continues in April
After breaking several sales records for the past few months, Ford India continued with its strong business momentum in April 2011. With domestic wholesales of 7319 vehicles and robust exports this month, the numbers are overwhelmingly positive . The quarterly numbers are encouraging as well. The company sold 42,395 wholesale and export vehicles from January [...]
Ford spoke to India’s favourite bloggers!
At the sidelines of the world’s most exciting consumer technology trade show in Las Vegas held in January—CES 2011—a few senior managers at Ford Motor Company spoke to India’s favourite bloggers: Kamla Bhatt (of the Kamla Show) and Kiruba Shankar. As Kamla and Kiruba posed them one question after another, we got some unusual and [...]
