Ford Reporter

Ford and Honda place trying to catch a leader in green car sales struggle in the United States of America.

Ford hybrid sales were 73%in the first nine months of 2009 compared to same period last year.

In September, Ford said that its financial reports, he sold 26,016 hybrid vehicles, because of the new Ford Fusion Hybrid, which led sales.

According to Automotive News, Ford and Honda are fighting for 2nd place in sales of hybrid vehicles in the United States.

Honda currently holds the second position , led by Honda’s Insight and hybrid Civic, With total sales of 29,958 hybrid cars in the first nine months of this year, pointing to an increase of 8 percent.

Toyota Motor Corp. hybrid drive car sales in the U.S., Recording sold more units than all brands myself. Although market leader, Toyota recorded a decline of 28% of hybrid sales in the first nine months of 2009, with a total of 144,351 units.

Via Focus Fanatics  you can now admire a few photos made to a Ford Focus parked somewhere in a small town.  Sweet.

Well, we`ve lived to see this happening. Ford made an off-road  version based on the Ford Focus 3.  This car, named X Road has 17 inch wheels, silver paint  and a new body.

They say the suspensions remained the same but the car is a bit bigger. The engine is 1.8-liter 125 hp , enough for this car but we`d like to see a bigger engine available as well.  The car will be available in Netherlands and only 300 units will be sold.

Mountune, the British tuner from Ford came with an sportier version of the Ford Fiesta. They upgraded the 1.6 Liter Version from 120 BHP to 140 BHP.  This package, which is basicly an upgrade costs only 1.400 Euro and will be available for the Fiesta Ti-VCT Sport and Titanium.   20 BHP more are enough to get this little car to 60 in just 7.9 Seconds with 2 Seconds faster than the standard version.

A few pictures below:

Well the title says everything  -  Vaughn Gittin Jr made the longest drift in the world, around 6,285 feet or 1.19 Miles compared with just 4,137 feet how the previous record was. He still waits for the guys at Guinness to make it official but we`ve seen enough. Watch the video below.