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Mike Martinez
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Automotive News reporter covering Ford and the UAW.
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Wrote this highly personal piece about my family this week. Check it out!
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How UAW benefits shaped an immigrant family
He had been dead 42 years, but my great-uncle's benefits sustained and, in many ways, shaped the remainder of my great-aunt’s life.
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February 19, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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Ford CEO Jim Farley: “President Trump has talked a lot about making our U.S. auto industry stronger...So far what we’re seeing is a lot of cost and a lot of chaos.”

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Trump creating ‘cost and chaos,’ Ford CEO Jim Farley says
Farley said long-term 25 percent tariffs on Canada and Mexico "would blow a hole in the U.S. industry that we have never seen."
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February 11, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Ford is repaying dealers for part of the cost of the EV chargers they were required to install as part of a now-discontinued program.

Some retailers can get as much as $240,000 back.

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Ford reimbursing dealers for EV charger installations
Ford is paying back retailers as much as $240,000 over the next few years for investments they had been required to make to continue selling F-150 Lightnings, Mustang Mach-Es and E-Transits.
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January 22, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Scenes from the Detroit auto show: The Ford Ranger gets its decal for winning NACTOY Truck of the Year.

It's the fifth-straight win for a Ford truck.

Our story: www.autonews.com/events/detro...
January 10, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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A sales milestone for Ford's electric Mustang Mach-E: it outsold the gas-powered Mustang by nearly 8,000 units in 2024, the first time since it went on sale in late 2020.

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Electric Mustang Mach-E outsells gasoline Mustang for first time
Sales of the gasoline-powered Mustang fell 9.5 percent to its lowest level in at least two decades amid supplier challenges, Ford said.
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January 8, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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This year's Automotive News All-Stars include two from Ford:

⭐Dianne Craig, President of Lincoln: www.autonews.com/awards/all-s...

⭐Lynn Simoncini, inventor of the SupportBelt: www.autonews.com/awards/all-s...
December 2, 2024 at 1:29 PM
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Thanks to everyone for following me here! As a reward, here's a scoop:

Ford plans to reduce Bronco production, reassign 400 workers in early 2025.

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Ford to reduce Bronco production, reassign 400 workers
In a Nov. 18 memo to workers, which a spokesperson confirmed as authentic, the automaker said it would “reduce our line rate to better serve customer demand for Bronco” early next year.
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November 20, 2024 at 2:53 PM