Starting Monday, owners of certain Ford Fiesta and Focus small cars equipped with the automaker’s PowerShift automatic transmission can begin filing settlement claims that could top $20,000 apiece, ...

Michelle Hughes' red 2012 Ford Fiesta is running better. The way that happened is extraordinary. Ford's North American powertrain executive quality manager, identifying himself only as “an engineer,” ...

Those last-generation Ford Focus and Fiesta models are no longer found on dealer lots, but they're still on the roads and many still carrying the automaker's faulty dual-clutch transmissions. In the ...

This story has been edited to correct a mischaracterization of wording in the memo from Ford Motor Co. to its dealers regarding Focus and Fiesta transmissions. Ford Motor Co. quietly notified dealers ...

Editor's note: A response from Ford about the original reporting by the Detroit Free Press has been added to the bottom of this story. Despite concerns from lawyers and engineers, Ford Motor Co.

DETROIT — Ford is extending the warranties on about 560,000 small cars in the United States and Canada to cover a litany of problems with a troubled 6-speed automatic transmission. The company has ...