Monday Maintenance Tip

Monday Maintenance Tip: The best thing you can do for your vehicle is getting regular scheduled maintenance. An oil and filter change is the most important and most frequent maintenance you’ll need, so make certain to follow the advice of your Owner Guide for how often it should be done. We recommend having your tires rotated and getting a multi-point inspection performed with every oil change. http://bit.ly/Wv0MGv

2014 Nissan Versa

Learn more about necessary routine maintenance for the 2014 Nissan Versa in order to keep all systems in peak functioning condition. http://youtu.be/YdTW7DEis0w

Nissan Vehicle Incentives

Hey fans! Check out the new vehicle incentives offered at Kenny Ross Nissan. Take advantage of these great saving opportunities! http://bit.ly/ZPVzZC

Ford Hybrid Sales Growth

Aside from the Chevy Volt, a plug-in hybrid, the car companies formerly known as the Big Three—GM, Ford, and Chrysler—have largely been spectators in the hybrid and plug-in vehicle category.

But there was a new contender on the scene: Ford, which sold 3,625 Fusion hybrids in April—more than four times the number it sold in April 2012. And it sold 3,197 of the C-Max Hybrid, a crossover model that didn’t exist last year. In all, Ford accounted for 6,822 of 42,804 hybrids sold in April—about 16 percent of the total.

It’s one thing to get an existing Ford owner to trade in her five-year-old Escape for a new one. It’s quite another thing to attract a former Prius owner to choose a Fusion hybrid as her next car. And that’s what these new vehicles are doing. I drove the C-Max Energi hybrid in April—it’s got all the techno-wizardry that Prius owners will recognize—a dashboard laden with data and digital green leafs that grow as you drive in a fuel-efficient manner.

Ford has engineered a remarkable turnaround in the last several years. Alone among the U.S.-based carmakers, it avoided bankruptcy, restructured its business, and weathered the deep recession in comparatively good health. That wasn’t enough to make its products cool in lucrative markets like Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C. But the hybrids are.

In effect, the hybrids and plug-ins are allowing Ford to gain new customers in new geographic areas, and to take market share from competitors. Overall, sales of Ford brand vehicles were up 17.8 percent in April 2013 from April 2012. By contrast, Toyota’s sales in the U.S. fell 1.1 percent between April 2012 and April 2012. “We’re turning, conquesting and growing our sales the fastest in the largest hybrid markets in the country,” Ford spokesman Erich Merkle told Bloomberg News last week.

-Courtesy of The Daily Beast

National Nurses Week

Monday, May 6th, through Sunday, May 12th, we are celebrating nurses! In honor of National Nurses Week, we would like to recognize and thank those who work in the medical field and take such wonderful care of our loved ones.

Take Your Child to Work Day

Hey fans! April 25th was "Take Your Child to Work Day" at Kenny Ross Ford South. One of our employees taught their daughter how it's done in our service department.

Vehicle Specials

Hey fans! Have you checked out our current vehicle specials, such as this 2013 Ford Flex with EcoBoost? Go to our website for more information! http://bit.ly/10xzHiV