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It's time to celebrate. Ford is launching their all-new 2012 Ford Focus. Boasting an estimated 40 mpg, the compact will be Ford's first truly global vehicle. To meet worldwide demand, the automaker plans to make a grand total of two-million 2012 models.

Mark Ford, President, Ford of the Americas, says "The launch of the Focus couldn't come at a better time." Given the onward-and-upward direction of gas prices, we couldn't agree more.

To meet their lofty two-million unit goal, Ford has four-thousand workers building the vehicles on two shifts at their Michigan Assembly Plant in Wayne…

There has probably never been a day you thought your car would be able to communicate with others. Well, that day may come soon. Ford UK is currently working on advanced WiFi and GPS systems, which will one day allow cars to communicate with other vehicles on roads. This could help warn off and prevent accidents.

Ford Motor Co. is demonstrating the technology before The Washington Auto Show. The system sends out multiple messages per second about a vehicle's location, speed, braking and steering. Ford's been working on "intelligent vehicles" for 10 years.

The system will be available…

Pickuptrucks.com and USA Today reports Ford is working along side The Center for Compact and Efficient Fluid Power and Folsom Technologies. What will this team create? A "hydraulic hybrid" F-150 pickup, capable of hitting 40 miles per gallon city.

Ford has won countless awards in recent years for their amazing green cars, like the upcoming electric Ford Focus and hybrid Ford F-150 pickup. But even the non-hybrid variant of F-150 is attracting attention from green truck shoppers.

The hydraulic hybrid's brakes capture energy typically lost as heat and uses it to pressurize hydraulic fluid in a container, called…