Ford has 2 finalists for car, truck of the year.

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From: "Automotive News."

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Ford has 2 finalists for car, truck of the year

Greg Migliore
Automotive News
December 18, 2008 - 12:14 pm ET


Ford Motor Co. placed two candidates on the short list of finalists for the 2009 North American Car and Truck of the Year awards.

Ford's Flex car and the F-150 pickup are among the six vehicles to make it through the latest round of voting by 50 automotive journalists in the United States and Canada.

The other cars were the diesel-powered Volkswagen Jetta TDI and Hyundai's Genesis luxury sedan. No Korean automaker has made the cut before.

The Mercedes-Benz ML320 Bluetec and the Dodge Ram pickup round out the truck field.

The VW and Mercedes models are the first vehicles with diesel engines to qualify as finalists in the 16-year history of the awards. The winners will be announced Jan. 11 at the Detroit auto show.


Last year, the Chevrolet Malibu won car of the year, and the Mazda CX-9 was honored as the top truck.

Domestic automakers have won the car trophy eight times, the Europeans four times and the Japanese three times.

In trucks, domestics have won nine times, followed by the Japanese four times and the Europeans twice.

Additionally, hybrids have won four times.

More than 50 vehicles were considered this year; 14 cars and 11 trucks made the initial ballot.

Automotive News is represented on the voting panel by Executive Editor Edward Lapham. Sister publicationAutoWeek has two members on the jury: Natalie Neff and Dale Jewett.
 
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The auto industry's enviable tradition of holiday breaks has lost its luster with extended shutdowns that leave workers wondering what's ahead in 2009.
Chrysler is closing its 30 North American manufacturing plants until at least Jan. 19 due to slumping sales, and Ford Motor Co. will shut down 10 North American assembly plants for an extra week in January, also due to lower U.S. sales.
Ford and Chrysler workers get vacation pay for the normal holiday shutdown, then will receive unemployment benefits and supplemental pay from the company that total about 85 percent of normal pay.

Better sell alot of flexes and 150's
 
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Unless the vote is rigged - :notme: - why would the Flex or the 150 win? The Flex is a squashed Land Rover LR3 - the Ford folks stole the LR original design and the F150 is simply a derivative of the last one! Only the two diesel engined cars are close to offering something innovative, and appropriate to the market needs. A great example of how out of step Ford is with the market needs!
 
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Maybe they are going by the number of vehicles sold? Since Ford sold almost 500,000 of the F-150's this year. :D
 
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