Ford Motor Company today announced an investment of R600-million in the Struandale Engine Plant in Gqeberha (formerly Port Elizabeth). This investment supports the launch of a new 3.0L V6 turbodiesel engine, as well as upgrades to the existing assembly line for the 2.0L Single Turbo and 2.0L Bi-Turbo diesel engines – all of which will be offered in the recently unveiled next-generation Ford Ranger pick-up, set for launch in 2022.

A championship battle that went down to the final race on the calendar is exactly how motorsport legend, and co-owner of Shelby South Africa, Peter Lindenberg wanted to retire from a phenomenal motorsport career.

The Ford Wildlife Foundation (FWF) has provided a locally assembled Ford Ranger to the Freshwater Research Centre’s Cape Critical Rivers programme. This vehicle will support the non-profit organisation’s crucial work in the Cape Floristic Region to improve freshwater ecosystem management.

In the lead up to the 2022 launch of the Next-Generation Ford Ranger, Ford South Africa this week hosted a high-level delegation for an oversight visit at its Silverton Assembly Plant and the adjacent Tshwane Automotive Special Economic Zone (TASEZ).

In what has been one of the most exciting and hotly contested seasons in the South African Cross Country Series (SACCS) for many years, the championship battle will go down to the final race of the season on Saturday 20 November 2021.

As the chequered flag brought a close to the inaugural Team Fordzilla Nations Cup international sim-racing event this past weekend, it was the team from Iberia who scored the most points to emerge victorious, ahead of South Africa in second, with Turkey completing the podium.

The Vryburg 400 delivered some of the closest and most spectacular racing in recent South African Cross Country Series (SACCS) memory, with a margin of just four seconds separating the Ford Castrol Cross Country Team’s Lance Woolridge and Elvéne Vonk (334) from a second consecutive victory after 400km of high-paced action.

South Africa’s Kruger National Park is home to a number of endangered species, case in point - the African Wild dogs. Kruger has the largest contiguous population of Wild Dogs in South Africa. This substantial population declined between 1995 and 2000 but fortunately, through mitigation of threats, the population has increased in the last decade.

Ford is pioneering new brain research that could ultimately lead to a faster and more accurate way to detect when the driver is starting to switch off behind the wheel.

The Castrol Ford Cross Country Team is looking forward to resuming its challenge for the 2021 South African Cross Country Series (SACCS) title when the sixth and penultimate round of the championship takes place at the Vryburg 400, on 29 and 30 October 2021.