SF Environment: Press Release
The model year 2000 dedicated natural gas Ford Crown Victoria NGV is one of the first vehicles to meet California Air Resources Board's LEV II emissions standard years before regulatory requirements.
AFDC - Alternative Fuel News
Barwood Cab Company in Montgomery County, Maryland, is evaluating the costs and emission benefits associated with using 10 1996 Ford Crown Victoria CNG cabs. Barwood operates a fleet of more than 400 vehicles serving the Washington metropolitan area. This DOE study is being conducted with support from Mardi John of George Mason University, and a Maryland-based emissions testing laboratory, Environmental Research and Development. The New York City, New York, taxi program, which received the National Partner Award at the Clean Cities Conference, currently has 185 CNG taxis. The New York City Department of Transportation has been working with Ford to design a practical vehicle for the taxi industry that meets the special requirements of taxi fleets, including generous trunk space and extended vehicle range. New designs for the Crown Victoria have been made to accommodate additional fuel tanks so the driver can travel 160 city miles without refueling. A typical 12-hour shift averages 130 miles. Other changes may include partitions around the driver to ensure passenger and luggage space is not lost. According to Mark Simon, Director, Alternative Fuels Program, New York City Department of Transportation, "the taxi industry is a valuable niche market by acting as a bridge to the private sector.
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Religion in the Workplace
That help comes in the form of her weekly meetings with chaplain Angie Ruiz, who also visits employees at 13 other Taco Bells and Pizza Huts around Austin, Tex. After pulling up to the restaurants in her powder-blue Ford Crown Victoria with the backseat full of Bibles, Ruiz heads straight to the kitchens.
Crown Victoria Safety Alert - FORD FILES
Eighty-five percent of police cars are Crown Victorias. The one-hour investigative report focuses on this high performance vehicle, one of the few models in which the gas tank is mounted behind the rear axle, extending up to the trunk area. A statistical analysis study performed for Ford found that of 149 makes and models, the Crown Victoria police cruiser has the second worst record for all fire-related fatalities, involving rear-end accidents that occurred in the last decade. In "In the Line of Fire," CNN national correspondent Susan Candiotti reports on Arizona highway patrol officer Juan Cruz, Florida deputy sheriff Steven Agner and others who never made it out of their cars. She also profiles several survivor stories, including that of Phoenix patrolman Jason Schechterle, whose face and hands melted away in a car fire after a taxicab hammered his Crown Victoria patrol vehicle from behind. After a two-and-half-month doctor-induced coma and multiple operations, Mr.
SurfWax: News, Reviews and Articles On Lincoln Town Car
It has also announced plans to produce 250,000 ethanol-capable vehicles in 2006, including the Ford F-150 pickup, Ford Crown Victoria, Mercury Grand Marquis and Lincoln Town Car. On the Net: Ford Motor Co.. Sources had speculated a Lincoln Town Car - made on the same platform as the Crown Victoria and Grand Marquis - would be moved from a Michigan plant to the Ontario city. Hargrove said he's seen the revised designs for the sedans made there and expects they'll sell well. Auto analyst Dennis DesRosiers suspects Ford may promise to add the Lincoln Town Car to the production mix in St. Thomas to prevent that site's closure. The Town Car is built on the same platform as the Crown Victoria and Grand Marquis models.
Cloud of Uncertainty Settles Over Ford's Area Stamping Plant ...
The Woodlawn plant also stamps out roofs and fenders for Ford's F- 150 pickup truck, among other components. Its biggest products are parts for the Crown Victoria and Grand Marquis, which are assembled in nearby St. Thomas, Ont.
The Center for Auto Safety
"You can't get much safer than a police car," Fitzpatrick said after test driving his daughter's 1994 Ford Crown Victoria Police Interceptor, a fresh coat of white paint hiding the markings it once bore.
Ford searches for a replacement to the Town Car :: carBC.com ...
Although the plan for a Five Hundred based Town Car sounds most viable, Mascarenas also suggested that keeping the current vehicle's underpinnings could be an option. The old Panther-based chassis has been in production since 1978, and is currently shared with the Ford Crown Victoria, Mercury Grand Marquis and Marauder. The Panther obviously should be laid to rest. Its ladder-frame chassis, non-independent suspension and low rigidity can only provide a certain degree of comfort, which is easily outclassed by the more advanced competition. This chassis is well behind thetimes, and even if it upgraded it will only continue to keep Lincoln lagging behind its rapidly evolving arch-nemesis, Cadillac.
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