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Motor 1
09-07-2025
- Automotive
- Motor 1
Ford's Newest Incentive Is Even Better Than Employee Pricing
Ford saw such huge success with its employee pricing program this year that it's now offering buyers something new. Starting today, you can buy most Ford and Lincoln models with no down payment, no first-month payment, zero-percent interest for 48 months, and zero payments for 90 days. The promotion excludes the 2025 Bronco Sport , Bronco, Expedition , Ranger, Transit , Super Duty, and Lincoln Navigator , as well as the 2024 Maverick, Ranger, Transit, Super Duty , F-150 Lightning , and Mustang Mach-E , and all Raptor variants. That leaves models like the Ford Escape , Explorer , F-150 , and Mustang eligible for the program, with three Lincoln options. Ford introduced its employee pricing program in April amid the talk of tariffs, hoping to keep people spending, and it worked. The automaker had announced it would extend the program by the end of that month, and consumers rewarded the Blue Oval. The new "0-0-0" campaign takes its place. Photo by: Victoria Scott / Motor1 Ford's Discount Program Boosted Sales Sales for Ford Motor Company were up 14.2 percent in the second quarter of 2025 and up 6.6 percent for the year. Bronco Sport and Bronco sales were up 38.6 and 51.3 percent, respectively, last quarter, while Ranger sales jumped 36.3 percent. Even Mustang sales came to life, increasing 3.2 percent from April to June. However, sales for the iconic pony car remain down 14.2 percent for the year. It's also interesting that Ford is excluding the 2024 Maverick and not the 2025 model. Ford had to increase the price of its compact pickup to just under $30,000 in May. That's only a couple of thousand dollars cheaper than an entry-level 2025 Mustang that's also eligible, but about $4,400 more than the 2024's starting price. Photo by: Ford The absolute cheapest Mustang you can get costs $33,915, which comes with no options, the 10-speed automatic transmission, and the 2.3-liter EcoBoost four-cylinder, which doesn't sound the most exciting. But it is a rear-wheel drive coupe with 310 horsepower. Ford isn't alone in trying to keep customers coming into showrooms. Automakers are facing stiff and confusing tariffs that are raising prices for consumers while attempting to mitigate some of the added fees. Some are covering the costs outright, others are adjusting shipments to the United States, while a few are just passing along the cost . At least Ford is taking some initatave to keep buyers walking through the door. Here's More Ford News: The Ford Escape Isn't Dead Yet. But These Six States Can't Buy One The Ford Explorer Finally Has a Real Off-Road Trim Get the best news, reviews, columns, and more delivered straight to your inbox, daily. back Sign up For more information, read our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use . Source: Ford Share this Story Facebook X LinkedIn Flipboard Reddit WhatsApp E-Mail Got a tip for us? Email: tips@ Join the conversation ( )
BBC News
14-06-2025
- Business
- BBC News
Cumberland Council shopfront grants available once more
More than £100,000 is being made available as a scheme aimed at improving tired shopfronts Council is encouraging property owners to apply for grants to enable work it says "brings pride back" into town centres and high than 100 premises in Cumbria have been upgraded, with 11 vacant units brought back into use as a result of previous funding, according to the Labour-led leader Mark Fryer hailed those efforts as a "great success". Among the shops to have benefited is Maryport's With Love a cafe, the building, on Senhouse Street, had stood empty since the 1980s until Victoria Scott and her sister, Samantha Cartwright, opened their studio earlier this their landlord having received a grant to undertake work to the front, Mrs Scott says she is "super proud" of the way it looks."It's been beautifully done. Several people have told us how stunning it looks," he said. Sean Parnaby, chairman of the Maryport Business Group, welcomed the grant scheme's return and encouraged businesses to apply for it."It's needed in the town. Although the cost of buying a shop here is relatively low, the expense of transforming a front can quickly make bringing the property back into use unviable, so a helping hand from the council is important."Our town centre is also a conservation zone, meaning any work has to be done to the right standard."The money comes from the government's UK Shared Prosperity Fund and information about how to apply is available on the council's website. Follow BBC Cumbria on X, Facebook, Nextdoor and Instagram.
Glasgow Times
12-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Glasgow Times
'Car crash TV': Glasgow designer on her exit from hit show
Victoria Scott, a project director with flexible workspace company CoVault, groans as she reveals the string of disasters which led to her dismissal by judge Michelle Ogundehin. 'It was car-crash TV, no doubt about that,' she says. 'Absolutely everything went wrong that could have gone wrong.' Victoria Scott (Image: Gordon Terris/Newsquest) Victoria has dazzled judges over the last five weeks with her stunning, contemporary designs for everything from a youth hostel room to a training room for dogs. Viewers of Friday night's show, which moved from its usual Thursday night spot because of VE Day programming, saw Victoria struggle with wonky wallpaper, tricky ceiling roses and paste that would not stick…. 'It was so frustrating, because I thought my design idea was actually good, and followed the brief,' she explains. 'I just couldn't make anything work.' READ NEXT: Glasgow designer makes mark on TV show The designers were asked to create relaxed, luxury hospitality boxes at Twickenham, home of English rugby. Victoria, who lives in the West End, did her research by visiting the Scottish national team's Glasgow home at Hampden and some of the city's other stadia. 'I decided to go down the route of using a vintage England shirt as my starting point, which combines navy, white and red,' she explains. 'I turned the design into a wallpaper, but when it arrived, the navy was actually purple. 'I spent hours one night, painting all the purple bits blue.' READ NEXT: 'It was the end of blackouts and air raids and fear' as Glasgow marked VE Day She sighs. 'It took ages,' she adds. 'And then when we tried to put it up, it would not stick. We had to use double-sided tape in the end.' A fluted ceiling rose Victoria designed also fell apart just before judging. 'The petals were falling off, it was just awful,' she groans. 'The whole thing was horrendous.' The programme does not focus too much on the behind-the-scenes calamities, however, and Victoria's finished room does receive praise from the judges. Despite the painful end to her time on the show, Victoria says she loved the experience. 'I'm proud of what I achieved, which was way more than I ever thought I was capable of,' she says. 'I'm so passionate about interior design and this was an amazing opportunity.' Her next project is two-fold – doing up her new home, which she says she 'can't wait' to get started on – and preparing for the arrival of her first baby. 'There is a lot going on,' she smiles. 'I'll always be really pleased I did Interior Design Masters, I'm so happy to have met such lovely people on the show. It has been the biggest whirlwind of my life.' Interior Design Masters continues on Thursday on BBC One.
The Herald Scotland
12-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Herald Scotland
'Car crash TV': Glasgow designer on her exit from hit show
'It was car-crash TV, no doubt about that,' she says. 'Absolutely everything went wrong that could have gone wrong.' Victoria Scott (Image: Gordon Terris/Newsquest) Victoria has dazzled judges over the last five weeks with her stunning, contemporary designs for everything from a youth hostel room to a training room for dogs. Viewers of Friday night's show, which moved from its usual Thursday night spot because of VE Day programming, saw Victoria struggle with wonky wallpaper, tricky ceiling roses and paste that would not stick…. 'It was so frustrating, because I thought my design idea was actually good, and followed the brief,' she explains. 'I just couldn't make anything work.' Read more: The designers were asked to create relaxed, luxury hospitality boxes at Twickenham, home of English rugby. Victoria, who lives in the West End, did her research by visiting the Scottish national team's Glasgow home at Hampden and some of the city's other stadia. 'I decided to go down the route of using a vintage England shirt as my starting point, which combines navy, white and red,' she explains. 'I turned the design into a wallpaper, but when it arrived, the navy was actually purple. 'I spent hours one night, painting all the purple bits blue.' She sighs. 'It took ages,' she adds. 'And then when we tried to put it up, it would not stick. We had to use double-sided tape in the end.' A fluted ceiling rose Victoria designed also fell apart just before judging. 'The petals were falling off, it was just awful,' she groans. 'The whole thing was horrendous.' The programme does not focus too much on the behind-the-scenes calamities, however, and Victoria's finished room does receive praise from the judges. Despite the painful end to her time on the show, Victoria says she loved the experience. 'I'm proud of what I achieved, which was way more than I ever thought I was capable of,' she says. 'I'm so passionate about interior design and this was an amazing opportunity.' Her next project is two-fold – doing up her new home, which she says she 'can't wait' to get started on – and preparing for the arrival of her first baby. 'There is a lot going on,' she smiles. 'I'll always be really pleased I did Interior Design Masters, I'm so happy to have met such lovely people on the show. It has been the biggest whirlwind of my life.' Interior Design Masters continues on Thursday on BBC One.
Yahoo
10-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
'My Interior Design Masters exit was a car crash and soul-destroying'
Interior Design Masters contestant Victoria Scott told Yahoo UK about her "car crash" experience of being sent home from the BBC show. As a Scottish native, the designer admits it was a "sickner" being sent home at the English rugby grounds where she was tasked with designing a premium hospitality suite at Twickenham. Scott narrowly missed out on the quarter finals of Interior Design Masters, here she takes us behind the scenes. Is it a disaster? Is it car crash TV? Do you know, Alan Carr is always a total breath of fresh air when he comes in but see when he then starts picking holes in your design, you're like: "Alright!" I think my exit was car crash TV, 100%. I felt like I'd really put a lot of thought into the user and the actual client being Twickenham as well. Is it a disaster? Is it car crash TV?Victoria Scott Maybe I over analysed everything. I tried to learn from my mistakes in previous episodes as well, so printing the stripes rather than painting the stripes but it all went terribly wrong. Whatever could have gone wrong did go wrong. Seeing the striped paper was horrible. It was really horrible and seeing a real life scenario, if you stand back and it looks terrible then you find another way. You'll go get it reprinted or you think actually, no, let's scrap that idea. Let's go back to the old fashioned way of painting it. In real life, you'd have time to do that and money to buy paint but we had neither so we just had to go with it and find a way of getting that paper on the wall. You just have to keep going. You don't have time to stall and find other ways. Nobody had any money left. It was a tumbleweed of disaster. I thought I was being clever getting the stripes printed but then when I picked them up, they were purple instead of blue. The whole concept was based around this vintage England rugby shirt which had a beautiful dark blue with the white and red. I didn't want it to be all white and red — too in your face English rugby. So that's why I wanted to have the blue in there as well... And the blue was purple! So what I had to do before even getting to Twickenham was roll it all out in a massive floor space in the office and paint by hand because I didn't have any money to get them reprinted. It was actually soul destroying to be honest. It just took forever and I was crawling about the floor doing this. Then you want to make it not look patchy. Because these boxes are £6,000 to rent per event, you don't want it to look as if you've been crawling about the floor painting a bit of paper to put on the wall! That wasn't great. The whole mirror thing was a disaster. My carpenter was not loving life... He was frosty. Again, tried and tested in a previous episode, I thought it would be dead easy. No bother at all. See right at the end when there was a countdown to go and we're trying to get that bloody rose on the ceiling which I spent so much time doing. I thought it could have been a really lovely focal point and then it starts all falling off. And I'm like, "Oh man." I knew I was going home. I was confident in my design, the execution was horrible, but maybe the only thing that could have swayed Michelle [Ogundehin] ever so slightly was the fact that I'd really tried to dissect the brief and take on board what she'd actually asked for. So she'd asked for an informal lunch set up and I feel that I did that with the high height table. There wasn't a massive table set because I had no money. I wanted it to be functional as well. I feel like I'd really ticked a lot of boxes. So the thought process is there but the execution was not. Who is on Interior Design Masters 2025? (BBC) You don't see half of Interior Design Masters! There are a lot of emotions that happen behind the scenes that never make the final cut which is wonderful actually because nobody's there to see somebody breaking their heart. That's the two bits of information that my dad gave to me before starting. He says, "Whatever you do, do not cry and when you get excited about it, you get more high pitched and you talk quicker and quicker and quicker, so just keep calm." I never made stand out space, I do regret that. I had just the best time. Truly it was a once in a lifetime experience. I met so many wonderful, wonderful people. An experience that only a handful of people ever get the chance to to take part in. It was amazing. I was so distraught to get sent home when I did. I had so much left to prove. Being quite a patriotic Scottish person as well, it was a real sickner getting sent home at the English rugby ground. I know maybe I was a wee bit disadvantaged being Scottish designing for English rugby but you know what it doesn't matter who your client is. Ultimately last week your client was a dog. Victoria Scott spoke to Lily Waddell. Interior Design Masters is on at 8pm on BBC One on Wednesday instead of Thursday next week.
