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The Irish Sun
4 days ago
- Automotive
- The Irish Sun
I'm a mum-of-nine and begging strangers to help me get a new car, I've already raised £1000 but need more
A SINGLE mum has taken to asking strangers online to fund her new car. Whittney Dawn, from the US, is a Advertisement 2 Whittney was asking strangers to fund her new car Credit: TikTok/@whittneydawn_ 2 The mum-of-nine first got pregnant at the age of 15 Credit: TikTok/@whittneydawn_ Taking to social media, Now, almost a decade on, her family has more than doubled in size with nine children, including a set of twins. But the mum was struggling to get herself a car to suit the family's needs and asked In a TikTok clip sitting in her 2004 Ford Expedition, Whittney said: "This is day 12 of using whatever I make on social media to get me and my nine kids a bigger vehicle. Advertisement READ MORE REAL LIFE STORIES "I do not want any donations. All I ask is for you to watch my video for one minute, like, comment at least nine words, and share my video." The mum said she had already been able to earn £1,000 from the creator fund as strangers engage with her videos. But she needed another £4,000 to reach her goal. Creators on TikTok, like Emily, can make money through TikTok's creator fund. Advertisement Most read in Fabulous TikTok bosses say: "The funds that each creator can earn are worked out by a combination of factors - including the number of views and the authenticity of those views, the level of engagement on the content, as well as making sure content is in line with our Community Guidelines and Terms of Service. No two creators or videos are the same, and there is no limit to the different kinds of content we will support with the fund. I was a teen mum - staff wouldn't let me get my kid's ears pierced, it's insane "The Creator Fund total varies daily and is dependent on the amount of videos published by our community that day - so this will fluctuate based on the amount of content being published." Fortunately for the mum, she was getting a lot of support from other TikTok users who were eager to help out. Advertisement Whittney added: "I cannot believe how supportive everyone has been these last couple of days and I still cannot tell y'all how much I appreciate everybody. "I cannot believe how many are coming through for us and I will never be able to tell you how grateful I am." The video soon went viral on her TikTok account @ Plenty of people took to the comments to engage with the video and hoped the mum achieved her goal. Advertisement Social Media Reaction One person wrote: "I hope you reach your goal. What a beautiful thing it will be when you achieve your goal." Another commented: "Girl, I'm definitely thinking about getting here and asking for help because I'm a single mum, only 22 and kinda struggling financially." UK Teen Mum Statistics Teen pregnancies in the UK have been decreasing considerably since 2007... The under-18 conception rate has decreased considerably since 2007, reports Between 2007 and 2021, the under-18 conception rate in England and Wales decreased by 68%, from 42 per 1,000 women to 13 per 1,000 women. This resulted in 13,131 under-18 conceptions in England and Wales in 2021. "Hope you are able to reach your goal and get your 15 seater van!" penned a third. Meanwhile a fourth said: "I hope you get your car, almost there." Advertisement "Wishing you the best and hoping you can get the vehicle you need,' claimed a fifth Someone else added: "Good luck on getting the new vehicle! you got this!"
Scottish Sun
4 days ago
- Automotive
- Scottish Sun
I'm a mum-of-nine and begging strangers to help me get a new car, I've already raised £1000 but need more
Read on to see how strangers can help the mum WHEEL GOOD I'm a mum-of-nine and begging strangers to help me get a new car, I've already raised £1000 but need more A SINGLE mum has taken to asking strangers online to fund her new car. Whittney Dawn, from the US, is a mum-of-nine at just 27 and needs help buying a small van to transport all of her kids. Advertisement 2 Whittney was asking strangers to fund her new car Credit: TikTok/@whittneydawn_ 2 The mum-of-nine first got pregnant at the age of 15 Credit: TikTok/@whittneydawn_ Taking to social media, the young mum revealed she first got pregnant at the age of 16, and another at 18, but was still able to graduate from school. Now, almost a decade on, her family has more than doubled in size with nine children, including a set of twins. But the mum was struggling to get herself a car to suit the family's needs and asked strangers online to help out. In a TikTok clip sitting in her 2004 Ford Expedition, Whittney said: "This is day 12 of using whatever I make on social media to get me and my nine kids a bigger vehicle. Advertisement "I do not want any donations. All I ask is for you to watch my video for one minute, like, comment at least nine words, and share my video." The mum said she had already been able to earn £1,000 from the creator fund as strangers engage with her videos. But she needed another £4,000 to reach her goal. Creators on TikTok, like Emily, can make money through TikTok's creator fund. Advertisement TikTok bosses say: "The funds that each creator can earn are worked out by a combination of factors - including the number of views and the authenticity of those views, the level of engagement on the content, as well as making sure content is in line with our Community Guidelines and Terms of Service. No two creators or videos are the same, and there is no limit to the different kinds of content we will support with the fund. I was a teen mum - staff wouldn't let me get my kid's ears pierced, it's insane "The Creator Fund total varies daily and is dependent on the amount of videos published by our community that day - so this will fluctuate based on the amount of content being published." Fortunately for the mum, she was getting a lot of support from other TikTok users who were eager to help out. Advertisement Whittney added: "I cannot believe how supportive everyone has been these last couple of days and I still cannot tell y'all how much I appreciate everybody. "I cannot believe how many are coming through for us and I will never be able to tell you how grateful I am." The video soon went viral on her TikTok account @whittneydawn_ with over 2.5 million views and 512k likes. Plenty of people took to the comments to engage with the video and hoped the mum achieved her goal. Advertisement Social Media Reaction One person wrote: "I hope you reach your goal. What a beautiful thing it will be when you achieve your goal." Another commented: "Girl, I'm definitely thinking about getting here and asking for help because I'm a single mum, only 22 and kinda struggling financially." UK Teen Mum Statistics Teen pregnancies in the UK have been decreasing considerably since 2007... The under-18 conception rate has decreased considerably since 2007, reports Nuffield Trust. Between 2007 and 2021, the under-18 conception rate in England and Wales decreased by 68%, from 42 per 1,000 women to 13 per 1,000 women. This resulted in 13,131 under-18 conceptions in England and Wales in 2021. "Hope you are able to reach your goal and get your 15 seater van!" penned a third. Meanwhile a fourth said: "I hope you get your car, almost there." Advertisement "Wishing you the best and hoping you can get the vehicle you need,' claimed a fifth Someone else added: "Good luck on getting the new vehicle! you got this!"
India Today
18-07-2025
- Entertainment
- India Today
Priyanka Chopra: America's most wanted
(NOTE: This article was originally published in the India Today issue dated Dec 7, 2015)It's a cold, blistery morning in downtown Montreal. At Rue St Jacques, lined by giant stone buildings, the eerie pre-dawn silence is broken all of a sudden by a rush of orchestrated activity. Dark, hooded figures are walking purposefully in all directions, glaring at onlookers, barking orders on headsets. Four NYPD cars enter from the south. A black van with FBI markings slithers in ominously from the east. Something big is going a few minutes, it does. A Ford Expedition SUV storms into the street, and everyone stops in their tracks, turning to look. A grin. A raised eyebrow. A smile. Priyanka Chopra has arrived on the set of Quantico. Just like she's arrived in North America-not with a whimper, not with a thud, but with an explosion that has eviscerated the Grand Central station in New York City and announced the dawn of a new age for network television. An age of diversity. An age of crossovers. And, who knows, perhaps an age when India's 900-films-a-year movie industry will finally begin to integrate seamlessly with the isn't certain what is drawing it towards Priyanka yet. But something is definitely working for her. For a new series with a smallish cast, Quantico is picking up ratings by the bucketful. It's already among the biggest Sunday shows for ABC, and among the most popular across the country on the tough 10 p.m. slot, grabbing high numbers on DVR playbacks. It's been licensed to 196 territories in 44 languages, and dubbed versions are being rolled out in mainland Europe. More importantly, Priyanka, 33, a "veteran" in India and a "find" in America, is giving the United States, and perhaps a larger global audience in the Golden Age of Television, a totally new Indian reference point. One that is a million miles away from the taxi driver-shopkeeper-doctor-engineer-scientist stereotype. Americans have long considered Indians efficient, practical, loyal, wise, good at following through and even better at making money. But never associated them with machismo, heroism or character is an American citizen with an Indian back story. She is a desi, but she is Alex Parrish, not Anjali Parashar. She is in the FBI, where she's a field agent, not an analyst. Alex is sensual, promiscuous, street-smart, and she can kick ass. Each one of those traits is new for an Indian in mainstream American pop culture. And then, she's a woman. A Bharatiya nari whose redeeming quality is that she's right, not are so many firsts in what Priyanka has achieved by landing this part, and then making it stick, that her most obvious attraction is sometimes overlooked. America thinks that Priyanka is hot. She's dusky, leggy, curvy, with a tiny waist, and thick, flowing hair. It's important to describe her in such detail, even at the risk of sounding crass, because the flair of her role and the body that she inhabits have combined to make Priyanka appear desirable. To be desirable in America is perhaps even harder than to be successful in America. And Priyanka is fully aware that America is liking what it's seeing. Ask her how tall she is, and she replies, "Five-six-and-three-quarters." How about we call it five-six-and-a-half, we ask. "No," Priyanka retorts, "I want my quarter!" She always philosophy of not giving a quarter has made her different from several other Indian compatriots who are doing well overseas. Irrfan Khan is a global actor in his own right now. So is Suraj Sharma after Life of Pi and his run on Homeland. Freida Pinto, who was discovered in Slumdog Millionaire seven years ago, has acted with the biggest directors and the best co-stars since. Rahul Khanna did a stint on The Americans. And Anil Kapoor's Slumdog role landed him parts on 24 and the fourth Mission what Priyanka has achieved is bigger. For she has managed to take her status of being a "lead actress" in India and translate it directly into a mainstream American network show. It would have been good enough if she had been any of the five recruits on Quantico, not the main protagonist in the middle of the poster. Somehow it wasn't good enough for time we stop being apologetic," she tells INDIA TODAY in an old bank building in Montreal that serves as the FBI's New York bullpen on Quantico. "In our country, we have a vibrant, exciting film industry. We make hundreds of movies every year. We have great technicians, top actors, big budgets, and visionary directors. Bollywood is all over the world. It may not be mainstream in America because it's not in English, but it is still a global film industry."Priyanka is clearly being too kind to the general standard of films that are made in India, particularly some of our biggest blockbusters and some movies that she has starred in, but her point is a significant one: "If I have a certain standing in one industry, why shouldn't I want a part in another that is befitting my experience and my profile?" she asks. "Why should I settle for anything less?"Her not settling for less is now making America discover new things about Priyanka. They're googling her and realising that, no, she is not related to self-help guru Deepak Chopra. They are learning that she is a huge star back home. They are finding out that she's a former beauty pageant winner. They are remembering that she's the face for Guess. They are recalling that she's a musician who had collaborated not long ago with Pitbull and every interview that she's done to promote Quantico-from Jimmy Kimmel to Kelly & Michael to Good Morning America-the almost 50 films under her belt have been brought up by the hosts with a sense of amazement. In each of those appearances, she's been playful, confident, perhaps to the Indians who know her well, even trying to be too coquettish. But for the Americans who are just waking up to her charms, she's scored heavily in each Good Morning America, she taught the audience how to do a Bollywood dance-put your hand on the side of your hips as if you have a gun in a holster, she said, now take out the gun, sway your hips, and fire. It's almost as if this is all part of some giant mission to educate the West about free-thinking, global Indians. Her message is simple: "I know who I am. I don't need America to validate me."advertisementOr, does she?Western promisesThere may be a little more to Priyanka's desire to do well in the United States than she acknowledges, or perhaps even realises. Priyanka was born in 1982 in Jamshedpur into an army family. Her parents moved frequently from city to city. Her father, Ashok, was genial, well-meaning, and only mildly traditionalistic. He loved music and was a huge fan of Mohammed Rafi, particularly when his voice was combined with the genius of composer S.D. Burman. Her mother, Madhu, was the more "hip" of the two, and loved Elvis Presley and The Beatles. There was always music playing in the Chopra house, and Priyanka would know who was "winning" that day-Mom or Dad-depending on what was on when she woke was a bit of an independent spirit from the start. She says she convinced her parents, in what was a very "adult" conversation, to send her to boarding school when she was in Class III. She moved to Lucknow's La Martiniere Girls' College at a time when her brother Siddharth was still a toddler. Priyanka doesn't remember all that much about school, but the name of Florence Keelor, the school's legendary principal who served until the '90s, brings a spark of instant recognition to her face: "We called her Killer!"It was while she was at La Martiniere, now a 12-year-old, that another "adult" conversation with her mother resulted in her move from the capital city of Uttar Pradesh to the biggest apple of all, New York. It was decided that she would go and live with her aunt after convincing her mother, who later convinced Dad, that the 'pros' far outshone the 'cons'.Queens, NY, was a different world, and the start of an exciting new chapter. She was the oldest of her cousins, and became the leader of their tiny group, picking up and passing on pop culture references. Priyanka was soon hooked to the East Side rap of Tupac Shakur, and the likes of Ice-T and The Notorious B.I.G. That was how she rolled back then, like a "gangsta"-bling, tirchi topi, oversized clothes, speaking with a hip-hop drawl. "What all I did!" she laughs. "I'm embarrassed to this day."This obsession continued even when she moved with her aunt's family to Newton, Massachusetts for high school. It was a typical high school movie setting with class divisions that split the lunch room into various camps. There were the jocks, the geeks, the cheerleaders, the nice girls, the mean girls, and so on. It was here that the ugly side of what was until then a dream American childhood for a girl from India began to manifest of the girls in school-Priyanka asks that she not be named because "it's not fair on her any longer", before cracking up and adding, "also because maybe I'm still scared of her"-started to pick on her. It was a relentless assault with racist undertones. Priyanka stopped enjoying going to school, and dreaded facing her adversary day after day. Tired of being hounded, she spoke to her mother-now as a 16-year-old-saying she wanted to come back the country where she spent her formative years as a teenager was also the country that she chose to leave, not entirely on her own terms. And that is why, even if Priyanka says she doesn't need America's validation, returning to the United States as a star that has already risen must feel extra special. A vindication, if not a the ropesThe Priyanka who'd left as a child and then come back to India as a young woman was hard to handle for both the Chopra family and the city of Bareilly. She was now alluring, "America returned", and had a bit of an accent going. She started to draw so much attention from boys to young men that her father had to fortify the house to keep unwanted admirers was not long after that her mother, initially on the insistence of her then 10-year-old brother that "didi" could be a beauty pageant winner, entered her in the Miss India contest. Priyanka was 17 when she finished as first runner-up, qualifying for the 2000 Miss World pageant. That is where she understood the early pitfalls of fame. Asked who her most inspirational living woman icon was, Priyanka made a catastrophic blunder by replying, "Mother Teresa", who had already been dead three says she has no excuse for the mistake, except that she got caught up in the moment, and pointing out that she had been in a school uniform until just a few months ago. Though she was crowned Miss World for how well she articulated her answer, it led to severe criticism back home-one reputable columnist even described her as the "stupidest of the stupids". "I'd won, but I was being so gleefully pulled down by people. Looking back, the reaction could have been more tempered," she Miss World title propelled her into Bollywood almost by form, as it did with so many other pageant winners of that era. She moved to Mumbai, without a "Mumma or Pappa in the industry", and began to find her own way. Her first few roles were all in the mould of arm candy at best and sex kitten at worst. One producer even told her that he could "interchange" her with anyone. But slowly, Priyanka started to create space for herself with a rap song in Bluffmaster! (2005) alongside Abhishek Bachchan that established her as "cool", then reinvented herself as an action star in Don the following year, before making a more serious breakthrough in Fashion in won a national award for that film, which was seen as a huge risk for a mainstream actress because it had no significant male lead, and because her character had to undergo an exploitative, almost misogynistic, journey. Among other things, it involved her getting drunk and waking up one morning next to a Black man-which in a racially bowdlerised India was akin to hitting rock bottom. Far removed from the good "well brought up" and "morally centred" heroines all Indian actresses aim to be accepted as. Fashion led to seminal roles in films such as Kaminey, 7 Khoon Maaf, Barfi!, and Mary Kom. The rest, as they say, is doesn't shy away from admitting how far she has come from her early days in the industry. Though she doesn't want to disown any of her work, some films do make her "cringe". About some others, she wonders what she was thinking when she took them on. Her thought process as an actor, too, has evolved-even if experts still consider her craft more in the realm of "adequate" than "formidable", while hastily adding that she has the potential to get her how she prepares for a role, and she replies: "Pankaj Kapur once told me that everything you want to know about a character is in the script. The writer, the producers, the director ensure that you have all the ammunition you need. Instead of seeking inspiration outside, you need to find it in the script." Talk to her about method acting, which she says is not for her though it might work for some people, and she tells this story: when Lawrence Olivier and Dustin Hoffman were working on Marathon Man (1976), there was a scene in which Hoffman had to be out of breath. He decided to run for a few miles so that it would be a realistic representation. When he returned to the set to start the scene, Olivier patted him on the back and said, "Next time, try acting, son."There has been intense speculation over the years about Priyanka's personal life. She was linked by the tabloids with Akshay Kumar early in her career, with Shahid Kapoor for a while in the late 2000s, and, quite scandalously, with Shah Rukh Khan for most of the early 2010s. She refuses to confirm or deny any of these stories, with an argument that is hard to counter: "For too long, instead of our work, actresses in India have been reduced to their relationships. Isn't it time that stopped?"Around the worldOn the set of Quantico, Priyanka doesn't appear to be a newbie in the American entertainment industry. Far from that, the midi-chlorians that dictate the mood of the shoot clearly flow from her. She is always hanging around on the set, which is a lot of moving parts, at the "video village" where the directors and writers watch the footage being captured in real time. She is joking here, laughing there, breaking into an impromptu jig somewhere else. If there is any reticence (her mother tells us she is actually a shy person), it has been masked perhaps helps that Quantico is a kind of show Priyanka can fit into easily. It is a typical network potboiler-not artsy and deep like Breaking Bad or intricate and intense like House of Cards, or even detailed and tormented like Homeland. The actors are always airbrushed, always looking good, and the plot lines are full of twists that favour dramatisation over realism. In other words, it's unabashedly popcorn entertainment, a lot like Bollywood, and it's a vibe that Priyanka gets perfectly. "Entertainment must be commercial, must be popular," she says. "That's what Quantico is. It's a show with energy and frenzy. It's not 'art'; it's mainstream network television. You can say, like people do about Bollywood, 'dekho eyeliner laga ke ro rahi hai' (see, she's put eyeliner while crying). But even in commercial ventures, an actor, a technician, a director, a writer, can showcase their art."Priyanka landed this role after signing a talent-holding deal with ABC, on the insistence of one of its executive vice-presidents, Keli Lee, which stemmed primarily from the idea that a star from one region could be transplanted to America and made a star there. The thinking was that their large fan following from a certain demographic would move with them. It was a financial and creative experiment, and Quantico's early success has shown that it seems to be working. First approved for six episodes, it was extended to 13, then 19, and finally to 22 episodes despite a production budget in the region of $6 million per episode, which is more than what most Bollywood films cost. If it holds its ratings, a second season could well be on the still had to audition for the part, though. Something she hadn't done in India for years. That morning, as she was going to ABC Studios in Los Angeles, Priyanka says she shed her nerves, and her fear of rejection, by telling herself that this is what she does; if she can do it in India, she can do it anywhere. "When I walked into the room, there were about seven people there. I sat on a chair, said my lines (the scene was from the first episode of Quantico when she breaks down Jake McLaughlin's character after a brief sexual encounter), and left."One of the people in that room was Joshua Safran, the show's creator. He says when Priyanka walked in, he thought she was glamorous and beautiful, but perhaps not right for the part. "Then she sat down and started reading. It was a revelation," he says, "for I'd thought Alex was dark, brooding, unlikeable. But Priyanka played her in a way that while there were conflicts bubbling inside, there was a magnetic quality to Alex that I hadn't imagined before. I thought, so Alex Parrish can be cool and playful too." It was almost a week before Priyanka knew she'd got the part. Alex's Indian back story was worked into the script later to fit her then, it's been about getting into the look, and the moment. She has a dialect coach who sharpens her American accent, which is still ethnically ambiguous at best but fits with her character because Alex Parrish spent a decade in Mumbai after her father's says she's being compensated "adequately for her time". Estimates suggest this is not close to the reported $150,000 per episode Kerry Washington makes for Scandal, but not too far-on a pro-rata basis depending on the number of days of shooting-from the $1.2 million she purportedly makes for a Hindi film. Quantico has an 83 per cent approval on Rotten Tomatoes and a 7.4 rating on IMDB, suggesting the critics and the public have largely warmed up to it as a pulpy, soapy FBI fact, the way Alex Parrish has been fine-tuned for Priyanka could now be a stepping stone for more work in America. "Look around you," she says, "the girl next door could be of any colour now. We're at that age when diversity is being embraced. Of course, I can't be born to two white people because of my skin colour. But that's not important any longer."And therein lies the nub that could see her spending more and more time away from home, even though she insists she still has an interest and a future in Bollywood, which remains her primary karma bhumi. Her next film Bajirao Mastani, directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali-one of her three favourite directors along with Anurag Basu and Vishal Bhardwaj-will release this December. But she doesn't play the title character in the film, which has Deepika Padukone acting as Mastani. So, with the shelf life for lead actresses in India notoriously short once they get on the wrong side of 30, it's easy to conclude that this expanding of horizons and opportunities could not have come at a better time for Priyanka. At 33, you're still young in America, we prod her. "Yes," she replies, "at 33, you're Beyonce."Videsi girlThrough the process of earning her chops, and learning her trade, Priyanka has also evolved into a person that a large section of India either doesn't understand or simply overlooks. Perhaps she has been around for so long now, and been seen through such a public prism, that her on-screen persona is often confused for her a few surprises about her, for example, is an obsessive love for mathematics. On the set of Quantico, when she is not animatedly picking the brains of the writers or director about the next shot, Priyanka gets lost in her iPhone on Math 42. It's an intricate app that throws up problems ranging from trigonometry to factorials to integers to calculus, which she tries to solve for several minutes at a surprise is that she's an avid reader who absorbs multiple books simultaneously, and her spot boy always carries between three to four volumes in her bag. These days she's finishing The Martian by Andy Weir, after which she will watch the Ridley Scott movie by the same name starring Matt Damon and Jessica Chastain. She says her favourite non-fiction work of all time is Letters from a Father to His Daughter by Jawaharlal Nehru, which her Dad had given her years ago-pointing, among other things in the context of today's India, to political liberalism. Priyanka's father, whom she was extremely close to, passed away in 2013 and she famously has a tattoo on her wrist with "Daddy's little girl" scribbled in his most unlikely surprise, however, is how much she loves food. Unexpectedly for an actress of her ilk, every meal is liberal, and one of her favourites in Montreal at the moment is the local delicacy poutine, which is French fries and cheese smothered in gravy and topped with meat. We ask how she manages to tuck into these greasy dishes, and she replies: "Oh well, I have good metabolism." Oh well, home away from home, which she has rented for the duration of her shoot that runs until mid-December, is a large, sunny six-bedroom in the Montreal suburb of Hampstead. It has split levels, an airy backyard, and a swimming pool in the basement. The interiors, which came with the house, are what can be best described as Punjabi baroque-with opulent sofas, giant chandeliers, thick candles-and would not be out of place in Greater Kailash in south Delhi. It's still a quiet sanctum for whatever time Priyanka gets off the set-Mohnish and Basanti, her helpers from Mumbai, have moved in to look after her. Her frequent guests include members of the Quantico crew, her stylists and hairdressers, and occasional trips from India by her brother and Diwali. The house has been decorated with fairy lights and diyas, and there is a small Lakshmi Puja in the evening. It's still a working day for Priyanka. Unbeknownst to her, co-stars Yasmine al Massri, Anabelle Acosta and Johanna Braddy-who play fellow FBI recruits Nimah Amin, Natalie Vasquez and Shelby Wyatt on Quantico-have organised a surprise party on the set. They have decorated the catering room across the street with gilt statues, ordered ethnic Indian clothes for themselves, and conjured up a local Bollywood troupe to the time Priyanka is lured into the building by one of the executive producers, the stage is set. As she walks in to shouts of "Surprise!" and "Happy Diwali!", failing to hold back the tears, one cannot but wonder at this seamless mingling of cultures. Priyanka Chopra, the girl from Bareilly, has somehow ensured that American network television finally embraces the Indian festival of lights, camera, to India Today Magazine- Ends
Miami Herald
14-07-2025
- Automotive
- Miami Herald
Ford Breaks General Motors' Infamous Recall Record
We already knew that Ford was having a dire year for recalls, but a new record by the Blue Oval is the final nail in the coffin for the brand's ongoing quality issues. According to data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), Ford has issued 89 recalls in the first six months of 2025. That number surpasses the annual record for recalls by an individual manufacturer - and we're only in July. For dealers and customers alike, the need to attend to the various issues related to the 88 recalls has caused immense frustration. Related: Every Two Days: 2025 Is Turning Into A Recall Disaster For Ford Ford's 89 records so far in 2025 surpassed the 2014 record held by General Motors, when the latter issued 77 recalls. That year, hundreds of thousands of GM cars were affected by faulty ignition switches, including models from Chevrolet and Cadillac. However, GM is the parent company of multiple individual brands, so it figures that more recalls had to be issued, whereas Ford only has Lincoln under its umbrella. According to Automotive News, Ford's 2025 recall count is more than the next five automakers combined. Ford says it's taking a proactive approach to recalls, whereby it's aggressively auditing previous fixes of issues in an attempt to pick up problems early. As Dodge recently discovered, some recalls can come back to haunt automakers years after quality issues should have been resolved. Ford is willing to risk short-term reputational damage to improve quality in the longer term, although one wonders when customers will finally see the number of recalls decline, as Ford was the most recalled automaker in 2023, too. One of the most recent of Ford's 89 recalls is an issue with a low-pressure fuel pump. This one affects over 850,000 models, including the Ford Bronco, Ford Expedition, and Ford F-250. Prior to this, Fords were recalled in 2025 for issues with rearview cameras, steering controls, braking systems, and seats, among others. The rearview camera recall was even bigger, affecting 1.1 million vehicles. In this case, the rearview camera image could freeze or be delayed, so drivers would not be able to spot potential hazards. At the end of 2022, Ford CEO Jim Farley said that fixing Ford's quality issues could take years, and midway through 2025, the company still has its hands full resolving new and old quality issues. Copyright 2025 The Arena Group, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Yahoo
11-07-2025
- Automotive
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Over 850,000 Ford Best-Sellers Have A Problem Pumping Gas
Over 850,000 Ford Best-Sellers Have A Problem Pumping Gas originally appeared on Autoblog. It's tough to come up with a new way of discussing a recall without making the concerned automaker look bad, but here we are again, talking about faulty Fords. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has announced a recall affecting 850,318 vehicles, including some under the Lincoln brand, noting that the low-pressure fuel pump may fail, potentially causing the engine to stall, which could increase the risk of a crash. This comes a month after Ford recalled some 1.1 million vehicles for faulty backup camera images, but the fuel pump issue is mechanical, so it's going to take more than a software update. View the 3 images of this gallery on the original article Ford estimates that 10% of the listed vehicles have the defect, so it's going to take a while to sift through all the repairs once a remedy is ready. In the meantime, owners of the following vehicles can expect to receive notification letters pertaining to recall 25S75 to be mailed on July 14: Ford Bronco (2021-2023) Ford Explorer (2021-2023) Ford Expedition (2022) Ford Mustang (2021-2022) Ford F-150 (2021-2022) Ford F-250 Super Duty (2021-2023) Ford F-350 Super Duty (2021-2023) Ford F-450 Super Duty (2021-2023) Ford F-550 Super Duty (2021-2023) Lincoln Navigator (2021-2022) Lincoln Aviator (2021-2023) Ford has received six customer complaints alleging a loss of power due to the fuel pump failure, but a remedy has not yet been found. Those who drive one of the abovementioned vehicles will want to take note of any misfires, lumpy idling, reduced power, or check engine lights. It's probably also best to ensure the gas tank isn't run close to empty, particularly in hot weather, as fuel pumps are cooled by the gasoline they feed, so low fuel levels or hot weather can hasten the pump's failure. View the 3 images of this gallery on the original article We hate to harp on the continual struggles Ford is having with recalls, but if you're a Ford owner reading this, you may have missed other recent recalls that may impact your ownership experience. Last month, Ford recalled almost half a million Explorers for detaching trim and another 300,000 SUVs for seats that may move unexpectedly. Just in the past week, 20 different Ford and Lincoln models got hit with a rearview camera recall that is separate from the one mentioned at the outset. Of course, Ford is not the only automaker to suffer, but it's certainly called up by the NHTSA more often than 850,000 Ford Best-Sellers Have A Problem Pumping Gas first appeared on Autoblog on Jul 11, 2025 This story was originally reported by Autoblog on Jul 11, 2025, where it first appeared.
