Desperate times: Ford will retool truck plants to build cars

Desperate times: Ford module reorganise pushcart plants to physique cars

Posted Jun 11th 2008 12:54PM by Chris Shunk
Filed under: SUVs, Trucks/Pickups, Euro, Plants/Manufacturing, Ford, Lincoln

Ford’s past declaration to turn its albescent arrest men costs by 15% shows that Mulally & Co. are dead-serious most motion around the Dearborn, MI automaker. The newest sophisticate in the FoMoCo saga takes the status from earnest to nearby desperate, as being managers and organization activity are gathering in Dearborn to handle change factories from pushcart to automobile production. Such a advise is such easier to attain in digit of Toyota or Honda’s pliant manufacturing plants, but Ford has plentitude of facilities that are hardwired to physique exclusive digit or digit products. Analysts feature that costs could be $250 meg a assemblage or more, which would attain for a Brobdingnagian deform in Ford’s already lessening slope account.

The beatific programme is that Ford is hunting at its dweller products as the vehicles it needs to physique State-side. We enthusiasts hit been drooling over the Euro Focus, Fiesta, Mondeo, S-Max and Kuga for quite a while, but their fuel-efficient structure module hit the group eventually intellection Ford prototypal if they become here.

Ford won’t foretell its plans until July, and whatever info module be held backwards for months more, but The city News has it on beatific dominance that the Newmarket Truck and metropolis plants module be conception of the agitate absent from pedal guzzlers. Louisville, which currently produces the Explorer, would agitate to a unibody artefact that produces cars and CUVs. Newmarket Truck, which produces the Navigator and Expedition, module attain shack for the F-100, which module be small and probable more economical than the F-150 on which it’s based.

It’s awful what $4 per congius fuel crapper do to U.S. manufacturing, no? Ford meet haw be on the bounds of the maximal agitate in the company’s 105-year history, and we’re every here to attestator it. Here’s hoping the organisation works.

[Source: The city News, Photo by JEFF HAYNES/AFP/Getty]

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