Imagine you could avoid parking fines, make money from your car while it’s parked at an airport, or fuel your car without visiting a filling station. These are among the concepts behind eight smart apps designed to help change the way the world moves and improve mobility that have emerged as the winners from a 24-hour coding challenge hosted by Ford’s Connected Vehicle and Services team.

Ford is teaming up with major global cities – starting with San Francisco – to solve congestion issues and help people move more easily, today and in the future.

Checking the battery charge status and finding your way back to your electric vehicle is as easy as telling the time, with a new smartwatch app.The MyFord Mobile app also enables Focus Electric and C-MAX Energi plug in hybrid drivers to remotely lock and unlock their car, check the driving range and get key information about their most recent journey.

The efforts of the Ford Chip Ganassi Racing team went unrewarded at Round 5 of the FIA World Endurance Championship in Mexico City today. The #67 Ford GT of Marino Franchitti (GB), Andy Priaulx (GB) and Harry Tincknell (GB) finished in fifth place in class and the #66 car of Stefan Mücke (GER) and Olivier Pla (FRA) finished in seventh position.

The 2016 FIA World Endurance Championship goes global this weekend as the teams head outside of Europe for the first of the ‘flyaway’ races.

Few of us expect the electronic devices we rely on to last very long. Cracked screens, slow-running software, and the appeal of the latest model can consign new smartphones, tablets and laptops to the bin after only a few years of use.

How do you fly a drone through a car, or freeze two drones in mid-air just like in The Matrix?

Five bleary-eyed gamers each completed a mammoth two day stint at the wheel of a virtual Ford GT race car in Forza Motorsport 6 to set a new GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS title for the “longest video marathon on a racing game”.

What happens when you bring together one of the world’s most exciting new sports – and some of its most thrilling cars?

Pedestrians today are distracted by smartphone games, messaging, and videos when they cross the road. Now Ford is introducing technology that enables vans to detect people in the road, and automatically apply the brakes if the driver does not respond to warnings.