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Ford posts $8.7 billion second-quarter loss on truck slump DETROIT (Reuters) - Ford Motor Co posted a record $8.7 billion quarterly loss on Thursday as it wrote down the value of slumping truck and SUV operations and revamped plans in a bid to break its reliance on the gas-guzzlers that have been its franchise vehicles for a decade. Shift to smaller cars raises safety questions WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An accelerating consumer shift from sport utility vehicles and pickups to more fuel-efficient cars should reduce rollover, but safety experts worry a lighter fleet poses serious risks despite air bags, anti-collision systems and other advances. Crowd-sourcing the e-car HELSINKI (Reuters) - After the wikipedia, the wikicar. "eCars - Now!" is a Finnish Internet community seeking to apply the collective approach taken by online collaborators like the authors of Wikipedia to start converting used petrol-fuelled cars to electric ones, with the first roll-out due this year. GM trails Toyota in first-half 2008 global sales DETROIT (Reuters) - General Motors Corp trailed Japanese rival Toyota Motor Corp in global vehicle sales decisively through the second quarter and first half of the year, hurt by a large decline in North America. Ford mass plug-ins at least 5 years away LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Ford Motor Co is at least five years away from manufacturing big numbers of plug-in electric vehicles for the mass market, an executive said on Tuesday.

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