If you are quick and sufficiently educated in the esoterica of the World Rally Championship to know when you see one a Ford Focus decked out in its rally manifestation, you will be rendered immediately and irresistibly aware of the class that these greased lightning vehicles ooze as they gracefully negotiate the translation from high-intensity [...]

Gone are the days when Henry Ford could magnanimously promise his customers a Model T or similar in any colour they wanted, provided, of course, that it was black. These days, the boot is most assuredly on the other foot, the customer being king all of that – and so his successors at the car [...]

There’s always the odd one out in a family, the member who just doesn’t fit. Maybe their hair is a different colour or they manage to laugh at the wrong things at get togethers. It’s hard to fault them for not fitting in, but at the same time, you can be put off by the [...]

The Ranger is the elder statesman of the compact ute segment, with a design that really hasn’t changed much in the past decade and more. When you’re good at what you do, though, you don’t need to change much. A redesign for the 2009 model year puts it at or near the top of the [...]

So you’re in the market for a Ford. Not the tiny ones, but a “Ford”. So you strut into the dealer’s office, puff your chest out and make your way to the Falcon. It’s Australian-born and Australian-raised and there’s a certain cachet attached to it. Unfortunately, your inflated pectorals might have blocked your view of [...]

Do you like the Focus? You’re not alone. Outside of the Mazda3, you probably won’t find a better example of the compacts. So it’s a little long in the tooth. Ford, unlike most companies, didn’t do too much to update it, adding a diesel engine to the trims. Is that enough? Sure, we left out [...]

Toyota-killer seems a bit of a misnomer. Mini-mangler is better suited for a lurid child crime feature on television. So what to call the Ford Fiesta Econetic? I think we’re going to have to stick with surprising. We liked the Fiesta to begin with, and it’s continuing Ford’s global trek to take back some of [...]

The Ford FG XR8 often gets referred to as a muscle car – that must make this XR6 Turbo something pretty close to a dancer. As with the XR8, the XR6 carries over from the FPV model the essentially identical fundamental engine components. In the XR6 turbo this means 270kW and 533Nm – 13Nm more [...]