If Audis only talked with Audis or Fords only talked with Fords, many of the safety benefits derived from connected vehicles would not be realized.
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And the ultimate reason that people buy Fords or have bought Fords is not because they were better cars, but because it reflected a belief in the middle class.
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The experience has not deterred the Fords from trying again.
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Need to catch up with the Fords before season two?
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You've heard it in ads for Chevys, Lexuses, and Fords.
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Lest we forget the Model T and Model A Fords.
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Fords Gin Officers' Reserve, $39.96 at Astor Wines & Spirits, astorwine.com.
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BRAZILIAN AUTOMAKER CAOA NEGOTIATING PURCHASE OF FORDS SÃO BERNARDO PLANT -SOURCE
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In Chevys, Cadillacs, and Fords, the touchscreen-heavy controls work well.
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The Fords also have another sister, Michelle, who is the middle child.
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As in "The Force", the Fords' optimism was built on incomplete foundations.
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The Fords took the hint, and the chief executive is now leaving.
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The pieces go into shock absorbers in Fords, Chevrolets and other vehicles.
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But the Fords say they have had overwhelming support from their community.
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All families have their own stories; the Fords' story is one of bloodshed.
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Fords, Chevrolets and Toyotas all led laps and played into the final outcome.
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Strong Island's sharp focus on the raw emotions of the Fords was a reminder.
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It boosts variety: Americans can shop for Volvos and Subarus in addition to Fords.
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But it's not just the Fords of the world who are paying a price.
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The Fords got the message, and Mr. Fields, the chief executive, is now leaving.
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The Fords felt certain that their child was not merely going through a phase.
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We'll need a Ford, or rather a generation of Fords to restore effective governance.
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So, how soon will we be driving Fords with parts made of tequila byproducts?
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On the other hand, they all qualified behind the five Fords that led the field.
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Find one with the 429/360 and it's the last of the big, fast Fords.
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But unlike the Fords and Chevys, this particular car requires a lot of special attention.
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Why not just sell them off the lot next to other Fords, Chevys, and Nissans?
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Ford files a petition The majority of vehicles included in NHTSA's recall expansion are Fords.
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By the final pit stops, there were three Fords in the lead of the race.
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Since his brother's time in office, the Fords courted and welcomed immigrants to their ranks.
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Chip Ganassi Racing will be using four of the Fords in the top-tier class.
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Factories in China assemble iPhones, stitch up Nike apparel and footwear and make Chevrolets and Fords.
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So "Fords" is off to a good start, and its stars' profiles are on the rise.
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The Fords, who live in Washington, D.C., sought guidance from gender experts and mental health practitioners.
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Time assigned me to photograph him regularly after that, and I became friends with all the Fords.
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Over the past 40 years, Johnson has collected over 100 muscle cars, including Chevrolets, Pontiacs, and Fords.
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She is the author of "First Lady's Lady: With the Fords at the White House" (Putnam, 1979).
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Some Chevrolets and Fords were parked there, too, because vehicles made in Mexico are not welcome, either.
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According to HGTV, the Fords first tried their hand at renovation on a very risky project: Leanne's home!
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The resulting products — items like mirror brackets and window frames — go into Fords, Chevrolets and Harley-Davidson motorcycles.
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William Clay Ford, Sr., hosted a dinner for the Ford Foundation board with several dozen Fords in attendance.
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"Restored By The Fords" Airs Tuesdays at 10PM ET on HGTV Come back every day at 8:30 a.m.
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The Fords and their guests danced this 1970s classic when they hosted their final state dinner in December 1976.
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The Nevada Highway Patrol was already on the alert for people in brightly colored Fords with big black grills.
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That forced the race into overtime, with Hamlin's Toyota leading a quintet of Fords, with two laps to go.
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The last time I checked, there were superb right-hand driven Chevys and Fords in a number of Asian countries.
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Mazlin: I used to work for [the Fords] in the 90s, and they were always so, so good to me.
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You look at the rundown on the pylon, and it's lots of Fords lined up in the top-12 spots.
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The Restored by the Fords star, 37, is expecting her first child with husband Erik, they share with PEOPLE exclusively.
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"The auto industry needs regulatory certainty, not protracted litigation," Joe Hinrichs, Fords president of global operations said in a statement.
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Since then it's appeared on everything from Fords, to the Porsche 917, to the incredibly strange 1970 Porsche 908/3.
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That provides the GMs and Fords with a way to make money globally when they experience a downturn at home.
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But neither of the Ferraris finished the race, both out by Lap 227, leaving the road clear for the Fords.
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Even at home, most Chinese car buyers prefer Chevrolets, Fords and Volkswagens made by foreign companies working with local partners.
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The Fords' decision to help Ellie transition socially from boy to girl was not something they did on a whim.
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Front Burner Fords Gin Officers' Reserve is a higher alcohol-content spirit made in the style of British Navy gin.
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Simon Ford, who makes Fords Gin, has now introduced his Officers' Reserve, a Navy-strength gin at 54.5 percent alcohol.
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Like Fords Gin, it's London-style, dry and infused with classic botanicals and spices, like juniper, which impart subtle flavor.
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The motive remained unclear, and a visibly angry Stawinski said it was difficult to understand the rationale behind the Fords' actions.
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And you can bet the Restored by the Fords designer is using the opportunity to plan the nursery of her dreams.
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Both would raise the cost of polluting and also raise the rewards for any modern-day Henry Fords developing revolutionary technologies.
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The Restored by the Fords star welcomed her first child, a daughter, with husband Erik, the couple confirm to PEOPLE exclusively.
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SO ALL WE WANT TO DO IS BE ABLE TO SELL AS MANY FORDS INTO GERMANY AS THEY SELL BMWs HERE.
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The Chock full o'Nuts can has changed over time, just as the Checker cab gave way to Fords, Toyotas and Nissans.
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They're flying up and down the streets here ... Do you have Fords and Chevrolets flying up and down streets in Germany too?
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Some of the emerging shows star siblings ("Restored by the Fords") or parent-child teams ("Good Bones"), but most revolve around couples.
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Take former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, who has driven Fords for years because his father was a manager at Ford Motor Company.
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""Fastest Car" season 2 — "Extremely expensive supercars take on massively modified undercover speed demons, including Hondas, Fords, Oldsmobiles and even a Mini Cooper.
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Berry took all-night hamburger stands, brown-eyed handsome men and V-21 Fords and turned them into the stuff of American poetry.
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The designer and star of HGTV's "Restored by the Fords" deviated only slightly from her favorite color when decorating her Los Angeles home.
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In fact, the Fords said, once she began to express herself and dress as she wished she immediately blossomed into a happier child.
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Malisa says they had been looking at Fords but her husband convinced her it was okay to spring for the more expensive Lincoln.
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The big question now is whether the moderately ambitious update will be enough to keep longtime Chevy owners from flirting with Fords and Rams.
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"I haven't seen a line for a new release in a while," said Rob Roth, founder of Vintage Vinyl Records in Fords, New Jersey.
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The pitch worked on Gautham Chandra, a United States citizen who lives in Fords, N.J., who took the trip and described it as incredible.
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While China is full of Chevrolets, Fords and Volkswagens, most are made in factories jointly owned by a foreign automaker and a local company.
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Since putting up the form, she has received over 2,400 submitted signatures, though some -- like "Donald Trump" and several "Christine Fords" -- are obviously fake.
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Roush fielded Fords for Cup champions Matt Kenseth (217) and Kurt Busch (1113), winning the first title under NASCAR's new 2111-race Playoff format.
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We saw that at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries with the Rockefellers and Carnegies and Mellons and Fords of the world.
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A season ticket holder for nearly 50 years, the Fords "sat and froze their butts off" throughout four Super Bowl trips -- and four losses.
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The Fords struggled to make changes through a chaotic tenure at city hall, though they were elected with a large cohort of supportive councillors.
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For example, the Port of Portland is the leading exporter of autos on the West Coast, with 2017,303 Fords bound for Asia last year.
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" Left: "This is an Uli Weber photo of antique Fords at the Goodwood Revival, the annual vintage car race and festival in West Sussex.
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But instead, a study finds the most popular cars for high-income Americans are pretty much what everyone else drives, notably Fords, Jeeps and Hondas.
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However, with Farley's lack of traditional auto experience and his recent focus on Ford's future, it appeared outwardly that "One Ford" might become two Fords.
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Unafraid of the untested, Beier fearlessly fords uncharted technological waters, experimenting with green screens and live-video feeds that transport viewers to fantastical digital locales.
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While Chinese drivers love to buy Chevrolets and Fords, those vehicles are generally made in Chinese factories through joint ventures between local and American carmakers.
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Even basic Fords and Chryslers offer automatic climate control, which regulates the heater, air conditioning and fan speed to keep your car at your selected temperature.
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The windows to Goldblum's soul and infinite wisdom were a classic black pair of Tom Fords, but at that moment, they became collateral for my phone.
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In addition to their new season of Restored By the Fords, Leanne and Steve's new digital series Ford Family Classics will premiere on HGTV's digital platforms.
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The most expensive cars being auctioned at this year's Monterey Car Week are mostly vintage Ferraris, but the list also includes Porsches, Fords, and Aston Martins.
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During services in Houston, Mr. Bush's coffin rested on a padded bier, provided by L.H.T., that has only been used during services for the Fords, Mrs.
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Auto industry experts say the reason for this is pretty simple: Americans love Hyundai and Kia cars much more than South Koreans love Chevys and Fords.
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At former President Richard Nixon's funeral in 13, the Clintons, Bushes, Reagans, Carters and Fords sat together in a long line reflecting the order of their presidencies.
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Approximately 12,000 jobs will be impacted at Fords wholly owned facilities and consolidated joint ventures in Europe by the end of 2020, primarily through voluntary separation programs.
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Bear Grylls Fords a Gator River For a show predicated on the idea that its host could be killed at any moment, few episodes of Man vs.
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Ford intends to ask things like which Fords you've owned before, how much you'll want to drive the GT as well as measure your social media engagement.
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On HGTV's Restored by the Fords, in which the Pittsburgh-based contractor stars alongside his sister, interior designer Leanne, Steve spends his days revamping other people's houses.
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Even places most closely associated with cars, like Detroit and Los Angeles, are remaking transit networks once ripped out to make way for Fords, Chevys and Chryslers.
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But six Fords, led by Logano, managed to come back together at the head of the field to break away and into the next 60-lap segment.
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She then quickly moved on to her endless rows of footwear, kicking things off with a pair of leopard-print Tom Fords featuring a heavy, gold T-strap.
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The Restored by the Fords star, who is expecting her first baby in March, is launching a lighting collection with the retailer and PEOPLE has your first look!
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The full first season of Restored By the Fords will be available on demand across all of the network's digital platforms and their app beginning Tuesday, March 5.
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The two produced books on the Rockefellers (21967), the Kennedys (21966) and the Fords (21972), and in 21960 Mr. Collier wrote on the Roosevelts, with Mr. Horowitz contributing.
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Fords Gin sponsored the North American leg of their tour, while Pernod Ricard appointed them global sustainability ambassadors and asked them to create training programs for 10,000 bartenders.
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Exhibition Review In the American imagination, Cuba evokes a scant handful of trademark sights and sounds: sugar cane, rum, 1950s Fords and Chevys, the Buena Vista Social Club.
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Each method is like a different "brand" of the same machine; they work as differently under the hood as Fords and Toyotas, but perform the same classification job.
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"Our mom wrote that on there…#SublimenalMessage???" the Fords say on this throwback photo of the two when they were little, featuring the words "Best Friends" written in marker.
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I'm told customers using the site have sold lots of Fords, Audis, VWs and Vauxhalls of all ages as well as Aston Martin DB9s, Porsche 911s and various Ferraris.
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The Rob Fords of the world are all around us, and they shouldn't have to die of cancer before we can view them humanely, on social media or otherwise.
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The plan for Mr. Ford's funeral was developed by Gregory D. Willard, a White House staff assistant in 1975 who later served as the Fords' personal lawyer in California.
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The owner of the Los Angeles Clippers and former CEO of Microsoft has proudly driven Fords throughout his life because his father was a manager at Ford Motor Company.
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The Fords said they went public with their story because they feel it is important to raise awareness about transgender issues and to humanize and normalize gender nonconforming people.
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The unusual pit-stop exchanges resulted in the fastest Fords trying to align in formation to run at the front, taking the high line, closest to the outside wall.
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Barry earned a bachelor's degree from Rutgers University and a master's of business administration in public accounting from Pace University before joining the family business, Siperstein Fords Paint Corp.
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But, presumably, Ford wants wants to sell self-driving vehicles — as a feature for personal cars and/or within fleets — wherever they sell Fords today; hence the winter trials.
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As we were walking to lunch, we noticed that even the White House pictures had changed: Photos of the Nixons were gone and the Fords were already on the walls.
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The Fords had gathered at their parents' home in Rancho Mirage, California, for an intervention, under the guidance of a Navy physician, Dr. Joseph Pursch, who would oversee Betty's care.
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"Maybellene" begins, "As I was motivatin' over the hill/I caught Maybellene in a Coupe de Ville" as if highway battles between V-8 Fords and Cadillacs were common occurrences.
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"New donations will go towards security and other expenses determined by the [Ford] family," explained the campaign organizer, who says they set up the campaign on behalf of the Fords.
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"Restored by the Fords" debuted in January and has averaged nearly 1.7 million viewers per episode (it is HGTV's best-rated new program this year among viewers 25 to 54).
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There's even a photo of that last thing: Teddy in his iconic white safari hat, perched atop an antlered beast as it fords a body of water flanked by evergreens.
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There's a difference here beyond the geography; this is the third generation of Uber's autonomous vehicle, which is distinct from the second-generation Fords that were used in the Pittsburgh pilot.
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The initial mapping exercise will be on the company's existing fleet of vehicles working on autonomous research around London today – those will be the Fords from last year's deal, he said.
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Leanne Ford, an interior designer and HGTV star of "Restored By The Fords," shared with Insider that she's excited about the caning trend at an event for the Leesa Legend mattress.
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President-elect Donald Trump has criticized Ford for the decision to shift production of Focus small cars to Mexico in 2018, and said he would consider levying tariffs on Mexican-made Fords.
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In an exclusive conversation with PEOPLE ahead of her first child's birth, the Restored by the Fords star revealed that she and husband Erik Allen Ford are gearing up to welcome their daughter.
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Compared to the Daimlers and Fords of the world, though, Tesla is still a fairly low-volume operation, so it's no surprise that it was one of the first to change its pricing.
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Let us now bow our heads in deep appreciation: Most 2017 Fords get the Sync 3 infotainment system, a major leap over the MyFordTouch interface in touch responsiveness, processing speed and visual clarity.
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The competitors are no newcomers to home makeover TV: the series stars Good Bones' Mina Starsiak Hawk, Restored by the Fords' Leanne Ford, Hidden Potential's Jasmine Roth and Windy City Rehab's Alison Victoria.
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" Evans, a former dentist, proposed that his was "a movement of plain people," and acknowledged that this "lays us open to the charge of being hicks and 'rubes' and 'drivers of secondhand Fords.
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A vivid picture of all that is a sight of an ocean (not a sea) of Japanese cars and motorbikes, with small Chevys and Fords being odd rarities, in Asia's booming and congested cities.
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The planned communities of the world's Disneys and Fords are largely out of vogue now, but for tech giants, the white whale is always skywards, in the form of a grandiose universal internet initiative.
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In Fords, he finished the season third overall – and the same result appeared likely in the CAMS F4 series, only for him to non-score in the final round and slip down to sixth.
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As long as its prices undercut competitors and offers fewer horses and a less dynamic driving experience, it's unlikely that a Hyundai will ever be an aspirational car like fast Fords tend to be.
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All told, Fords claimed six of the top 12 starting positions, including Team Penske drivers Logano and Keselowski and all four Stewart-Haas Racing drivers — Almirola, Harvick, Daniel Suarez (10th) and Clint Bowyer (11th).
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If a business refuses to serve 7-year-old Ellie or another patron harasses her because she is transgender, the Fords can complain to management or police and expect their report to be taken seriously.
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If he doesn't achieve the visual or narrative poetry of the filmmakers he's riffing on — the John Fords, Howard Hawkses and Robert Altmans — he still gives you plenty to look at, and it's never boring.
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The government could also urge the Chinese public not to buy American-brand cars like Chevrolets and Fords, even though those are built almost entirely from Chinese-made parts and assembled in factories in China.
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With three major HGTV shows under her belt and a new baby at home, Restored by the Fords' Leanne Ford has to make the most of her time off—by catching some Zs, of course.
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The Focus RS will be built in Germany, and will be sold under Fords "Performance Division" marquee — which also includes the upcoming GT supercar, the Mustang GT-350, and the F-150 Raptor pickup truck.
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The Fords typically assign tasks a value of zero to five points, though that number might go up if the chore is urgent or high-stakes (think filing taxes or dealing with a child's school paperwork).
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Made of ingredients I didn't even know existed, a Gate No.1 is compromised of Old duff genever, Fords Gin, Lagavulin 16 Whisky, Belsazar Red Vermouth, David Douband Pinot noir, Port, Milk Jam, and Strawberry tulsi Kombucha.
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Keith Koegler, who said he has known the Fords for more than five years and considers them close friends, said Ford told him in the summer of 2016 that she had been sexually assaulted in her youth.
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The star of HGTV's Restored by the Fords, 37, has listed her Los Angeles house for sale, just 9 days after PEOPLE exclusively announced she's expecting her first child, a girl, with husband Erik Allen Ford, 35.
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The Fords were working really hard to run together, and Kevin and Joey and (Ryan) Blaney and myself, I thought we were doing really good at it, but for whatever reason the car just instantly turned there.
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The new rules also include a technical revision that Havana's "rolling museum", including Chevrolets, Plymouths and Fords from the 1950s, are struggling to pass, Oramas said, and that 2,167 licenses had been canceled so far as a result.
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Last year, Fords' executive director of connected vehicle and services Don Butler told CNBC that the carmaker needs to think more like a "software of services company" and said being "open and inviting" to partnerships will be key.
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In a clip teasing the second season of their hit HGTV show, Restored By the Fords, the brother-sister home renovators attempt to make some interiors magic in a family's dated house in their hometown of Pittsburgh, Penn.
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In a clip that premiered exclusively with PEOPLE, the Fords take on the challenge by putting drywall on the ceiling, tearing down walls in the living room, adding French doors, exposing the brick fireplace and painting it white.
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The biggest import is cars, with the U.S. spending $74 billion in 2015 for the hundreds of thousands of Chevrolet and Ram trucks, as well as Volkswagens, Fords, Hondas, Nissans and other brands that are assembled in Mexican factories.
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" Restored By the Fords' sister-brother team Leanne and Steve Ford will team up with Eve Plumb (Jan Brady) on the family room and kitchen, which Leanne is currently adorned with "lots of orange and lots of avocado [green].
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The Toyota cars made an early pit stop in an attempt to run the race on a different strategy, and this set up a much clearer manufacturer battle against the Fords and Chevrolets than a single race typically generates.
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Edmonds was splitting a bottle of red wine with a lawyer friend who was also undecided at the Avo cocktail bar in Mountain Brook, a ritzy suburb of Birmingham where Lexuses and Audis seem to outnumber Fords and Chevys.
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During their second season, the Fords will take on a number of new home projects, and Steve even asks Leanne to help him design his first house — a bachelor pad located in an abandoned 1940s warehouse near downtown Pittsburgh.
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On the team's first trek, from 289 to 21980, Wanderwell drove in the expedition's parade of Fords from Nice, France, across Europe and then through Asia, from Mumbai to Kolkata on India's broad shoulders, and then up to China.
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In the old days, the Indians led their cattle to the freight yards many miles away on horseback; their wives awaited them in Model T Fords, pulled their saddles off the horses, and drove them back to the reservation.
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CreditCreditTessa Neustadt On her HGTV show, "Restored by the Fords," Leanne Ford paints everything white, so it's no surprise that her tiny, early 20th-century four-room cabin in the Echo Park section of Los Angeles would be white.
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As such, Strong Island is deeply emotional, circling around and back around to the moments that defined the Fords' personal tragedy to discover their meaning while linking them to the broader injustices that black men and women have experienced in America.
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Because we have a history, also in this country... You had Andrew Carnegie or the Fords or these old foundations, which now seem rather pleasant, in terms of what they did, whether it was libraries, or the Ford Foundation continues.
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Corsair has never been used for a Lincoln model before, but there was a line of Fords built in the UK under the name in the 1960s, and another sold in Australia from 1989 to 1992 that was a rebranded Nissan sedan.
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William was unarmed, but he was black, and the man who shot him was white, and an all-white grand jury decided not to indict the latter, to the shock and distress of the Fords, declaring the act one of self-defense.
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His brief encounter with her leads to a series of adventures that find him on the lam from the police in Scotland, where he crosses moors, fords streams, dangles from bridges, assumes false identities and meets a prototypical Hitchcock blonde (also Ms. Vicars).
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Government doesn't know how to create more world-class innovators — like the Thomas Edisons and Henry Fords of yesteryear, or today's Bill Gates and Elon Musk — but it can easily raise the prospective return on new investment by lowering the tax bite.
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In addition to the six former Bradys, the other cast members include the aforementioned Starsiak and Laine, Property Brothers stars Jonathan and Drew Scott, Flea Market Flip's Lara Spencer, Restored by the Fords siblings Leanne and Steve Ford and Hidden Potential's Jasmine Roth.
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"The full details of Dr. Ford's polygraph examination are particularly important because the Senate Judiciary Committee has received a sworn statement from a longtime boyfriend of Dr. Fords, starting that he personally witnessed Dr. Ford coaching a friend on polygraph examinations," Grassley wrote.
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Even if China does reduce its 25 percent tariff on imported vehicles — as Chinese President Xi Jinping promised on Tuesday — it is not clear that would mean a big, long-term increase in Fords and Lincolns made in U.S. factories heading to Chinese showrooms.
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GMs Cadillac luxury brand is gearing up to launch a series of electric SUVs and cars, while Fords Mustang Mach-E electric SUV, unveiled in November, will launch later this year and could compete with Teslas Model X or soon-to-launch Model Y SUVs.
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" We do technically have a few, running in a closed pilot project in Phoenix, courtesy of Waymo, but that's not what Ford was talking about: "Self-driving Fords that have no steering wheels, brake or gas pedals will be in mass production within five years.
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Even if China does reduce its 25 percent tariff on imported vehicles - as Chinese President Xi Jinping promised on Tuesday - it is not clear that would mean a big, long-term increase in Fords and Lincolns made in U.S. factories heading to Chinese showrooms.
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During a recent appearance on PEOPLE Now, the Rock the Block cast — which comprises of Windy City Rehab's Alison Victoria, Hidden Potential's Jasmine Roth, Restored by the Fords' Leanne Ford, and Good Bones' Mina Starsiak Hawk — revealed what they thought about Scott and Deschanel's new romance.
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The six original cast members were joined by Property Brothers stars Jonathan and Drew Scott, Good Bones' Mina Starsiak and Karen E Laine, Flea Market Flip's Lara Spencer, Restored by the Fords siblings Leanne and Steve Ford and Hidden Potential's Jasmine Roth as part of the celebration.
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The 22009,29 Fords sold in Russia last year are still barely more than a fifth of the almost 210,21 vehicles the company sold in 20083, before the global financial crisis brought the first of two collapses in the Russian car industry in less than a decade.
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To start with, there was Ford's multimillion-dollar investment in the race, with its eight GT40 Mark II cars at three Ford teams — plus five of its cars used by several private teams — meaning that 13 of the 55 cars entered in the 1966 race were Fords.
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Restored by the Fords follows siblings Leanne and Steve Ford as they make over outdated houses in Pittsburgh, PA. Although integrating clean, modern looks for local families is certainly a plus, Leanne, the designer, and Steve, the contractor, are in it for more than just the pretty "After" photos.
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Watch the full video above to see the cast meet the HGTV designers, including Property Brothers stars Jonathan and Drew Scott, Good Bones' Mina Starsiak and Karen E. Laine, Flea Market Flip's Lara Spencer, Restored by the Fords siblings Leanne and Steve Ford and Hidden Potential's Jasmine Roth.
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Uber ATG Head of Product Matt Sweeney told me in an interview that this third-generation vehicle actually uses fewer sensors than the Fords that are on the roads in Pittsburgh, though the loadout still includes a full complement of traditional optical cameras, radar, LiDAR and ultrasonic detectors.
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If you wanted to follow the majors you either read about it in the newspaper or, if you were lucky enough to live near one of the 563 teams (very near—there were still a good number of people driving horses, not Fords), you went to the park.
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Each week the Windy City Rehab star, along with Restored by the Fords' Leanne Ford, Good Bones' Mina Starsiak and Hidden Potential's Jasmine Roth make over a different room in the house with the goal of adding the most property value, and a judge from the HGTV family decides on the winner.
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The son of a hot-dog vendor from Italy, he joined Ford in 1946 and grappled his way to the top using a flair for marketing ruses and a recognition that flogging Fords relied on flashy design, as much as the reliability and safety that the firm believed were its main assets.
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Each sibling was assigned a room of the house to restore — with help from some HTGV experts along the way, including Property Brothers stars Jonathan and Drew Scott, Good Bones' Mina Starsiak and Karen E Laine, Flea Market Flip's Lara Spencer, Restored by the Fords siblings Leanne and Steve Ford and Hidden Potential's Jasmine Roth.
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Uber has a more direct relationship with Volvo in turning its new XC90s into cars with autonomous capabilities; the Fords were essentially purchased stock off the line, while Uber's partnership with Volvo means it can do more in terms of integrating its own sensor array into the ones available on board the vehicle already.
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The show features the actors who played the six children in the 1970s show — along with other HGTV stars like Drew and Jonathan Scott from "Property Brothers," mother-daughter duo Karen E. Laine and Mina Starsiak from "Good Bones," and siblings Leanne and Steve Ford from "Restored by the Fords" — as they restore the TV home.
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