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News 07/23 2006 Nascar Ford FUSION to debut at Daytona 500 Ford has a new "face for the Chase." The 2006 Ford Fusion race car, based on the production model that will hit showrooms this fall, was officially named Ford Racing's new race car for NASCAR competition at an unveiling today in Charlotte, N.C. The 2006 NASCAR Ford Fusion will make its competition debut at the 2006 Daytona 500 in February, and Ford teams will use it in next year's NASCAR Nextel Cup Chase for the Championship, as well as Busch Series competition. "We're thrilled to be unveiling the new Fusion," said Dan Davis, director, Ford Racing Technology. "The Fusion production car represents a fresh, new attitude for Ford in the mid-size sedan lineup. This Fusion race car has the same b 07/19 Ford new Flexi-Fuel Focus and C-MAX Cars Ford has introduced its new generation Focus Flexi-Fuel, plus a Flexi-Fuel version of the Ford Focus C-MAX in Sweden this week, and remains the leading manufacturer of ethanol-powered vehicles in Europe. Offering up to a 70 per cent reduction in overall CO 2 (carbon dioxide) emissions, the new Focus and Focus C-MAX Flexi-Fuel vehicles play a key role in Ford's broad portfolio approach and wide-ranging efforts towards sustainable mobility. The success of the previous model Focus Flexi-Fuel is also a prime example of what can be accomplished through co-operation and partnership between companies from different industries, local and national government and non-governmental organisations. “There 07/18 Ford Mercury Mariner Hybrid to be ordered online The order bank is set to open for America's newest hybrid, the 2006 Mercury Mariner Hybrid, which goes on sale Monday and will be ordered almost exclusively online. Although some orders will still be taken directly at certified dealerships, the majority of the 2,000 initial production Mercury Mariner Hybrid models will be ordered online in a first-come/first-served real-time basis. And in a first for Ford Motor Company, those orders will determine which dealers receive the vehicles. "We are taking a very non-traditional approach to marketing the Mercury Mariner Hybrid because our target customers are far from traditional," said John Fitzpatrick, general marketing manager for Lincoln Mercury. 07/15 Ford General Motors DaimlerChrysler research lightweight materials battery technologies Ford Motor Company, General Motors Corporation and DaimlerChrysler Corporation, as members of the United States Council for Automotive Research (USCAR), signed cooperative research agreements with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to support continued research and development in the areas of lightweight materials and advanced battery technologies for vehicles.Signing today's agreements at the Automotive Hall of Fame were U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Samuel W. Bodman; Mark Chernoby, DaimlerChrysler Vice President of Advanced Vehicle Engineering; Dr. Gerhard Schmidt, Ford Vice President for Research and Advanced Engineering; and Thomas Gottschalk, GM Executive Vice President of Law an 07/10 Ford Fusion 2006 Concert Promotions