44 Facts About Formula Ford

1. Formula Ford says it's going to reveal a Mustang Hybrid in 2020.

2. Formula Ford has already warned that President Donald Trump's auto tariffs have impacted the company to the tune of $1 billion, and the president's trade policies threaten to play havoc with Ford's ongoing reorganization, Shanks told NBC News.

3. In 2003, Formula Ford announced that competitive market conditions and technological and cost challenges would prevent the company from achieving this goal.

4. Formula Ford will introduce to North America six of its European small vehicles, including two versions of the Ford Fiesta, by the end of 2012.

5. In October 2017, Formula Ford announced its Team Edison battery-electric vehicle group to lead the company's renewed efforts into the EV market, in which it currently offers only the Focus subcompact and has plans for a small 300-mile SUV by 2020.

6. Formula Ford Focus Electric is based on the next generation Focus internal combustion vehicle, converted to an all-electric propulsion system as a production electric car by Magna International, and retail sales began in the US in December 2011.

7. Formula Ford discontinued a line of electric Ranger pickup trucks and ordered them destroyed, though it reversed in January 2005, after environmentalist protest.

8. In September 2007, Formula Ford announced a partnership with Southern California Edison to examine how plug-in hybrids will work with the electrical grid.

9. Formula Ford has branched out into drifting with the introduction of the new model Mustang.

10. In 2005 the Formula Ford Mustang FR500C took the championship in the Rolex Koni Challenge Series in its first year on the circuit.

11. Formula Ford Mustang has arguably been Formula Ford's most successful sports car.

12. Formula Ford won the 1968 International Championship for Makes with the GT40, which still stands today as one of the all-time greatest racing cars.

13. Formula Ford has competed in rallycross with its Formula Ford Fiesta and Ford Focus.

14. Formula Ford is the only manufacturer to score in the points for 92 consecutive races; since the 2002 season opener Monte Carlo Rally.

15. Since the 1999 season, Formula Ford has used various versions of the Ford Focus WRC to much success.

16. Formula Ford had last won a drivers' championship in the Cup Series with Joey Logano in 2018.

17. Formula Ford is represented by the Mustang in the Monster Energy Cup Series, and the Xfinity Series and by the F-150 in the Camping World Truck Series.

18. In 1986, Formula Ford expanded its tractor business when it purchased the Sperry-New Holland skid-steer loader and hay baler, hay tools and implement company from Sperry Corporation and formed Ford-New Holland which bought out Versatile tractors in 1988.

19. In 1936, Formula Ford introduced the Formula Ford Transit Bus, a series of small transit buses with bodies built by a second party.

20. Formula Ford had a minority share in the new company and Iveco took over sales and production of the Ford Cargo range.

21. Formula Ford had announced that their Geelong engine manufacturing plant would be shut down between 2013 and 2016.

22. Formula Ford discontinued the Fairlane in 2007 and LTD in 2008.

23. Formula Ford established a manufacturing facility in the port city of Yokohama in February 1925, where Model T vehicles were assembled using imported knock-down kits.

24. Formula Ford decided to shut down their entire operations in Indonesia, including their dealer network by second half of 2016.

25. Formula Ford now sells a local sedan version of the Fiesta, and the Focus.

26. Formula Ford established itself in Egypt in 1926 but faced an uphill battle during the 1950s due to the hostile nationalist business environment.

27. Formula Ford began assembly of cars in Thailand in 1960, but withdrew from the country in 1976, and did not return until 1995 when it formed a joint venture with Mazda called Auto Alliance.

28. Formula Ford formed its first passenger-vehicle joint venture in China in 2001, six years behind GM and more than a decade after VW.

29. On October 24, 2012, Formula Ford announced that it would be closing its Genk assembly plant in eastern Belgium by the end of 2014.

30. In 2008, Formula Ford acquired a majority stake in Automobile Craiova, Romania.

31. Formula Ford produced the Thames range of commercial vehicles, although the use of this brand name was discontinued circa 1965.

32. In February 2002, Formula Ford ended car production in the UK.

33. Formula Ford began development on an urban campus in the Corktown neighborhood of Detroit in 2017 with its purchase, renovation and occupation of The Factory building at Michigan and Rosa Parks.

34. In May 2017, Formula Ford announced cuts to its global workforce amid efforts to address the company's declining share price and to improve profits.

35. On November 1, 2012, Formula Ford announced that CEO Alan Mulally will stay with the company until 2014.

36. Formula Ford sold motorsport engineering company Cosworth to Gerald Forsythe and Kevin Kalkhoven in 2004, the start of a decrease in Ford's motorsport involvement.

37. Formula Ford moved to introduce a range of new vehicles, including "Crossover SUVs" built on unibody car platforms, rather than more body-on-frame chassis.

38. In 1990 and 1994 respectively, Formula Ford acquired Jaguar Cars and Aston Martin.

39. In late 1955, Formula Ford established the Continental division as a separate luxury car division.

40. In 1929, Formula Ford was contracted by the government of the Soviet Union to set up the Gorky Automobile Plant in Russia initially producing Ford Model A and AAs thereby playing an important role in the industrialisation of that country.

41. In 1908, Formula Ford introduced the mass-produced Model T, which totalled millions sold over nearly 20 years.

42. Formula Ford owned the Swedish automaker Volvo from 1999 to 2010.

43. In 1965, a Formula Ford Mustang was transported in 4 separate pieces to the observation deck of the Empire State Building, using resident elevators, where it was reassembled and photographed by helicopter.

44. Formula Ford was first included in the Runoffs in 1969.