; D2 and D1: These modes are found on older Ford transmissions ( C6, etc .).

* Ford: Cruise-O-Matic, C4, CD4E, C6, AOD / AODE, E4OD, ATX, AXOD / AX4S / AX4N

Most trucks utilize a modified and / or custom designed automatic transmission, such as a Turbo 400, Powerglide, Ford C6 transmission, or a Torque-flite 727.

* Ford C6 transmission, an automatic transmission

In 1966, Ford introduced the C6 automatic, which left them with three heavy-duty automatic transmissions and crowded conditions at Livonia Transmission plant.

The sole transmission for the Marquis ( and all full-size Lincolns and Mercurys ) was the Ford C6 3-speed automatic.

It is well to bear in mind that gasoline will cost from $.80 to $.90 for the equivalent of a United States gallon and while you might prefer a familiar Ford, Chevrolet or even a Cadillac, which are available in some countries, it is probably wiser to choose the smaller European makes which average thirty, thirty-five and even forty miles to the gallon.

A big-league municipal stadium at Flushing Meadow Park is in the works, and once the lease is signed the local club will be formally recognized by Commissioner Ford C. Frick.

Merritt D. Hill, Ford Motor Co. vice president, says his company is starting to get calls daily from dealers demanding immediate delivery or wanting earlier shipping dates on orders for corn pickers.

Baseball commissioner Ford Frick has ruled that Ruth's record will remain official unless it is broken in 154 games.

The poem is quoted by Sue Bridehead in Thomas Hardy's 1895 novel, Jude the Obscure and also by Edward Ashburnham in Ford Madox Ford's The Good Soldier.

* 1964 – Ford Mustang is introduced to the North American market.

* 1882 – American Old West: Jesse James is killed by Robert Ford.

Jefferson's earnings reputedly enabled him to buy a car and employ chauffeurs ( although there is debate over the reliability of this as well ); he was given a Ford car " worth over $ 700 " by Mayo Williams, Paramount's connection with the black community.

He is known for his roles as Westley in the cult classic The Princess Bride, Arthur Holmwood in Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula and for his role as Dr. Lawrence Gordon in Saw.

Flockhart is the wife of actor Harrison Ford.

" That same year, then-U. S. President Gerald Ford acknowledged the stature of the comic strip, telling the Radio and Television Correspondents ’ Association at their annual dinner, " There are only three major vehicles to keep us informed as to what is going on in Washington: the electronic media, the print media, and Doonesbury, not necessarily in that order.

Father Mathew Bridge is understood to be near the ancient " Ford of the Hurdles " ( Baile Átha Cliath ), the original crossing point on the River Liffey.

Another example is Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now Redux, which, like the original film, polarized the audience, with some fans considering the original version to be the definitive cut.

Coppola is also the owner of Francis Ford Coppola Presents, a lifestyle brand under which he markets goods from companies he owns or controls.

The J D Wetherspoon pub in Oxford Road, Manchester is named after Ford Madox Brown.

It states on the Wetherspoons website that " This J D Wetherspoon pub is named after the much-travelled artist Ford Madox Brown, a one-time resident of Victoria Park, a suburb south of the pub.

The Ford GT40 is a high performance British-American sports car and winner of the 24 Hours of Le Mans four consecutive times, from 1966 to 1969 ( 1966 being the Mk II, 1967 the Mk IV, and 1968-1969 the oldest chassis design, the Mk I ).

The contemporary Ford GT is a modern homage to the GT40.

Mercury is a Ford Motor Company division, and Mercury's 427 was exactly the same engine as Ford's with different logos.

Orson Welles in an interview with Peter Bogdanovich said of Howard Hawks in comparison to John Ford " Hawks is great prose ; Ford is poetry ".

Shipped without rear seat, rear interior trim, rear window or decklid, the hearse package also features a heavy-duty suspension, brakes, charging system and tires and was once offered on a modified Ford Expedition SUV chassis with the Triton V10 truck engine.

In 1963 Ford sold enough of their aerodynamic “ sport-roof ” edition Galaxies to the public so it would qualify as stock, and with the heavy-duty FE block bored and stroked to the new limit of 427, the top 5 finishers were all Ford.

Ford also developed a heavy-duty V10 version of their Triton engine to replace the 460 big block in truck applications.

Available only in Corinthian White with red vinyl interior, and with a list price of about US $ 4, 200 ( when a base Ford 300 went for US $ 2, 324, and XL Fastback was US $ 3, 268 ), these cars came stock with Borg-Warner T-10 four-speed, 4. 11: 1 rear axle, heavy-duty suspension and brakes, and were fitted with a fiberglass hood ( a flat piece at first, late in ' 63 the popular blister hood also used on the Thunderbolt ), trunk, front fenders, and fender aprons, as well as aluminum bumpers and mounting brackets, transmission cases, and bellhousing.

Ford offered two suspension options, the heavy-duty and competition suspension.

Motor Trend described the suspension as " Unlike the super heavy-duty springs of years past, the folks at Ford have managed to produce superior ride control without harshness.

Beginning as a stock Mustang with a 4-speed manual, the cars were shipped to Shelby American, where they received the high-riser manifolds, had their stock Ford Falcon live rear axles replaced with heavy-duty Ford Galaxie rear axles, and were given larger, metallic-lined rear drum brakes and Kelsey-Hayes front disc brakes.

In addition, 15-passenger vans, a segment dominated by the Ford Ford E-Series, are tall because of their heavy-duty suspensions necessary to carry large amounts of people which also make them prone to rollover.

The initial engine was the Ford straight-6, modified with solid valve lifters, a oil pan, heavy-duty fuel pump, oil-bath air cleaner, and a carburetor with a float bowl compensated against tilting.

In May 2000, Kona and Ford Motor Company marketed a special edition of the Ford Focus featuring an " Out Of Bounds " Kona bike, bolt-on roof bike rack, nylon washable seat covers, unique colors Dirt Metallic and Rainforest Green, unique side moldings with molded-in Kona Moto logo and bike tire treads ; 16 ” six-spoke machined aluminum wheels and heavy-duty black rubber floor mats with Kona Moto logo and bike tire treads.

The EK of 1960 was Holden's response to the Ford Falcon ( Australia ) | Ford Falcon, with the availability of automatic transmission.

Paalen contributed Fumage and Onslow Ford Coulage as new pictorial automatic techniques.

Exceptions include the 1995-1996 Ford Escort / Mercury Tracer and the Eagle Summit Wagon which had automatic safety belts along with dual airbags.

* C5 automatic, a successor to Ford C4 transmission

All the Mustang's engines were revised for 2011, and transmission options included the Getrag-Ford MT82 6-speed manual or the 6R80 6-speed automatic based on the ZF 6HP26 transmission licensed for production by Ford.

The two production engines were always mated to an automatic gearbox but have become popular in the custom car scene where they have been mated to the 4x4 manual transmission and the rear-wheel-drive manual transmission from the Ford Sierra XR4 and XR4x4.

Four-speed manual transmissions were by now almost universally offered in the UK for this class of car, and contemporary road tests commented on the rather large gap between second and third gear, and the resulting temptation to slip the clutch when accelerating through the gears in the smaller-engined cars: it was presumably in tacit acknowledgment of the car's marginal power-to-weight ratio that Ford no longer offered the automatic transmission option with the smallest 1298 cc-engined Cortina.

The optional automatic was changed to a " Merc-O-Matic " 3-speed automatic transmission ( essentially a Ford C4 transmission ).

Six-speed automatic transmissions are probably the most common offering in cars from 2010 in cars like Toyota Camry V6 models, the newer GM cars and trucks, Ford cars and trucks.

Ford, with the BF, also introduced the six-speed ZF 6HP26 automatic transmission and electronic stability control, both of which were made available on selected trim levels.

The automatic locking front hubs also tended to fail prematurely ; the manual versions, made for Ford by Warn, suffered from fewer reliability problems.

Output was and, while European versions produced in standard carburettor trim for vehicles with automatic transmission and for the Fiesta XR2 and the Escort XR3 or Orion Ghia ( twin Weber carburettor ), or fuel-injected ( K-Jetronic ), KE-Jetronic catalyst mechanical fuel injection, ( EFI Electronic fuel injection with Ford EEC-IV engine management ) as found in the XR3i or Orion GLSI.

Durashift is the brand name of a range of Ford automatic and recently manual transmissions.

The 2000-2006 Ford Transit featured a Durashift EST automatic transmission.

The current Ford Mondeo features Durashift in a 2. 3L, 6-speed automatic powertrain.

Also, two transaxle options were available: the manual Ford MTX-75 transmission or the automatic Ford CD4E transmission ( available in the US with either engine, although the I4 / automatic combination was extremely rare ; supposedly only 500 Cougars were built with the I4 / auto ).

The Super sedan also gained the 1. 6 L engine and auto option in ' 73 while the range was expanded in 1974 when 1. 3 L variants ( a result of the fuel crisis that also prompted rival Ford NZ to reintroduce a Cortina 1. 3 ) and 1. 6 L manual or automatic ' Super ' wagon models were added to the New Zealand assembled range.

The cars were also equipped with an engine oil cooler, a power steering oil cooler, special offset rear shocks, a 3. 25: 1 Ford 9 inch 31 spline nodular open rear end, and most surprisingly: a heavy duty C-6 ( cast iron tailshaft ) automatic transmission that was column shifted.

Ford Escape was also sold as the Ford Maverick in Europe with a Ford 2. 0 L I4 Zetec engine with manual transmission, or 3. 0 L Duratec coupled to automatic transmission.