Electric-sports car maker Tesla Motors plans to go public soon, Reuters reported today, citing two sources familiar with the matter said. An IPO filing from the six-year-old start-up, best known for its $109,000 all-electric, zero-emissions Roadster, is expected any day, the news agency quoted one of the sources as saying. The person did not give a specific time frame, although IPOs typically take several months. Tesla spokeswoman Rachel Konrad, in an interview with Green Car Advisor , declined to comment on what she called “rumor or speculation.” Tesla would mark the first public offering from a U.S. automaker since the Ford Motor Co. debuted its shares in 1956. The IPO represents a landmark in the resurgence of electric-car technology that most carmakers had dismissed as impractical until recently. The company's chairman Elon Musk said early last year that an …

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Reuters Reports Tesla Preparing an IPO; Electric-Car Maker Declines to Comment

While Ford are making some headway in North America, their real Western Hemisphere focus is on the growth market of Brazil. Bloomberg reports that Ford will invest 4 billion Brazilian Reals (that’s $2.3 billion to you lot, I only deal in UK pounds) on Brazilian production capacity. Naturally, Ford aren’t doing this alone, the Brazilian

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Ford Invests Big In Brazil

After the sales plunge in the auto market began in earnest in the fall of 2008, automakers scrambled to reduce production schedules, sell off swollen inventories and otherwise deal with a drastically contracting U.S. market. Now, after months of production cutbacks orchestrated by many automakers and the summer's outsized demand from the $3-billion Cash for Clunkers rebate program, bloated inventories are a thing of the past. Now, data researchers at Edmunds.com say the coming months may be a tug of war between still-cautious buyers and right-sized-but-cash-strapped automakers anxious to hold the line on pricing. It could be a battle that sees winners and losers on both sides as uncommon market and industry forces collide in what will be an unpredictable sales environment.

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As ‘09 Inventories Deplete, Who Will Blink First – Carmakers or Customers?

Remembering the day that Ford Motor Company put the Edsel, the car that’s synonymous with colossal failure, out of its misery.

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Edsel, 50 Years After Its Demise

According to Ford, sales of small cars could exceed those of midsize cars by 2013 because two huge demographic groups, baby boomers and their children, are gravitating toward smaller cars.

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There May Be a Smaller Ford in Your Future

Ford and VW each had six Top Safety Picks, awarded by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. But more interesting is that Toyota was shut out.

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Ford Leads in Top Safety Picks

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has advanced an investigation, looking into transmission failures in 2004-05 Ford Freestar and Mercury Monterey minivans.

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Ford Minivans Investigated for Transmission Failure

Maybe Auto Bild missed the memo that police fleet Ford Crown Victorias have been called “Interceptor” since 1992. Either way, they’re arguing that Ford’s new “all-new Interceptor” should be a production version of 2006’s Ford Interceptor Concept. “With it the police’s new transportation would not only be more modern, but also properly cool,” they deadpan.

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What’s Wrong With This Picture: Cool Über Alles Edition

The Ford Fusion is a perfectly competent, yet utterly bland vehicle. It’s proof that American firms can compete in the mass-market vanilla sedan segment, but not because it does anything particularly well. It’s strength is nothing more than an absence of the glaring issues that kept Detroit out of the Accord/Camry sweepstakes. Which is why

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Ford Fusion Named Motor Trend Car Of The Year

Ford Motor Co. stock closed Monday at its highest price in more than two years after billionaire investor George Soros upped his stake in the automaker. Ford shares rose 30 cents, or 3.6 percent, to close at $8.71 a share on Monday. That's the highest price since the shares closed at $8.95 per share on Nov. 2, 2007, according to Bloomberg. Ford shares have risen 25 percent since Oct. and more than tripled this year.

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