Sparta Ford and local community to raise as much as $6,000 for local high schools
</element><element id="paragraph-1" type="body"><![CDATA[Ford Motor Company and Sparta Ford are partnering to help raise money in support of Sparta, Chester, Coulterville, Steeleville, and Trico High Schools as part of Ford's Drive One 4 UR School program. Members of the local community will have the opportunity to raise up to $6,000 for each high school by test driving a Ford vehicle at the Sparta Ford dealership on Saturday, November 13th from 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM.
For every person who test drives a new 2011 Ford vehicle, Sparta Ford will donate $20 to the schools, which will be using the proceeds to help fund extracurricular activites.
"We're excited to help raise money for Sparta, Chester, Coulterville, Steeleville, and Trico High Schools and at the same time introduce parents, teenagers and other drivers to our high quality lineup and innovative safety technologies," said Dawn Seibold, Parts and Services Director at Sparta Ford. "We know it is important that students continue to have opportunities to participate in extracurricular activities, and that's why over the past two years it has been a privilege to help support these important programs."
Since the start of Ford's Drive One 4 UR School program in 2007, over 173,000 people have helped raise more than $3.3 million for close to 700 high schools across the country. Locally, Sparta Ford has participated in Ford's Drive One 4 UR School program for two years and has raised $11,000 for local high schools.
In addition to raising much-needed revenue for high school extracurricular activities, Ford Motor Company's Drive One 4 UR School program also gives participants the chance to take a look at Ford and Lincoln Mercury's exciting new cars and leading safety technologies, including:
MyKey™, a system that allows parents to limit a vehicle's top speed and audio volume to encourage safe driving behavior in teens;
SYNC®, the fully integrated, in-vehicle voice-activated communications and entertainment system with 911 AssistTM, Vehicle Health Report and GPS-based features including business search and call completion;
Blind Spot Information System (BLIS™) with Cross Traffic Alert, which uses radar to check the blind spot and helps notify the driver of approaching traffic when backing out of a parking spot; and,
Active Park Assist, a technology that helps drivers position the vehicle for parallel parking and then steer it into a parking spot without touching the steering wheel.
To participate, please visit Sparta Ford, located at 311 S St. Louis St, Sparta, IL between 9:00 AM and 3:00 PM on Saturday, November 13th.
Participants must be 18 or older and have a valid driver's license. There is a limit of one test drive per household.
About Ford Motor Company
Ford Motor Company, a global automotive industry leader based in Dearborn, Mich., manufactures or distributes automobiles across six continents. With about 178,000 employees and about 80 plants worldwide, the company's automotive brands include Ford, Lincoln and Mercury, production of which has been announced by the company to be ending in the fourth quarter of 2010, and, until its sale, Volvo. The company provides financial services through Ford Motor Credit Company. For more information regarding Ford's products, please visit www.ford.com.