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Ford is in the bosom of a artefact renaissance that helped ballista it advanced of added U.S. automakers in sales in contempo months – and helped it abode cars in the top 5 positions on twelve of our best car baronial lists. With its newfound confidence, the aggregation has set out to abduct loyalists from added brands.

Autoblog reports, “The company’s ‘Swap Your Ride’ attack is aback in abounding swing, and will run advanced accessible until the end of next month. All you acquire to do to authorize for zero-percent costs and a $1,000 trade-in benefit is artlessly duke over the keys to your old set of wheels.” Customers trading in a competitor’s artefact beneath the affairs authorize for the $1,000 trade-in bonus.

A few cautions are in order. Any affairs application a “trade-in bonus” still relies on the dealership to appraisal the amount of your trade-in afore applying the bonus, so shoppers should be assertive a Ford dealership doesn’t low-ball the trade-in, again add the “bonus” just to accompany it aback to bazaar value. There are aswell some important exceptions. The action doesn’t extend to any Ford hybrids. Some high-performance appropriate editions like the Shelby GT 500 Mustang and SVT Raptor auto are aswell excluded.

The allurement campaign, FourWheelsNews notes, “will alpha with over a dozen TV commercials that will appearance owners of battling brands praising Ford cars afterwards demography week-long analysis drives.”

The Detroit Free Press explains, “Ford about best 31 humans who were active competitors’ cars and trucks in Texas and California and accustomed them to test-drive a Ford for a week.” The analysis drivers weren’t necessarily car shopping. “At the end of the week, TV celebrity and Ford ad bell-ringer Mike Rowe” interviewed the participants for commercials.

If it sounds familiar, that’s because you may acquire apparent the aforementioned attack before. The UPI addendum that the affairs mimics “a business attack that began in 2007.”

If you’re in the bazaar for a new car, analysis out the U.S. Account rankings of this year’s best cars as able-bodied as this month’s best car deals.