DETROIT – They knew the truth and kept quiet. Their secret wasn’t a secret at all in engineering, product development, research, design or manufacturing within Ford Motor Co., say seven current and ...

DETROIT — More than 1.9 million unhappy customers who purchased or leased a Ford Focus or Fiesta say the company lied to unload cars with faulty transmissions on unsuspecting buyers and then blamed ...

I'd call it an open secret in the world of cars but for the fact that everyone knows about it: the dual-clutch transmission in the last-generation Ford Fiesta and Focus was an utter disaster. The ...

Seven current and former Ford employees spoke to The Detroit Free Press about what they knew about transmission problems with the Fiesta and Focus that are now at the center of a class-action lawsuit.

It all started with Gran Turismo. From those early PlayStation days, Sean was drawn to anything with four wheels. Prior to joining the Roadshow team, he was a freelance contributor for Motor Authority ...

The six-speed dual-clutch automatic transmission Ford launched in the U.S. with the Fiesta and Focus has had a seriously troubled life from early drivability and reliability problems that eventually ...

Ford Motor Co. provided this statement in response to Free Press questions about its decisions regarding the DPS6 dual-clutch transmission used in the Fiesta and Focus: In 2011 and 2012, Ford was ...

Two U.S. senators have called for an immediate federal investigation of Ford Motor Co.'s decision to knowingly launch and continue for years to sell Fiesta and Focus vehicles with defective ...

Several members of congress are pushing for a NHTSA investigation into Ford's handling of customer issues with its PowerShift transmissions. Kyle Hyatt (he/him/his) hails originally from the Pacific ...

The 2012-16 Focus and 2011-16 Fiesta equipped with the DPS6 have been the subject of 18 recalls for a range of defects, but none for transmission repair. Ford has conducted customer service programs ...