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Though still smarting from what wasn't the most successful arguing on their behalf at Congress last week, Ford Motor Company had already decided to "do things differently" before senators and congressmen kept asking them to do so. Yesterday the Wayne, Michigan plant that had been partly responsible for the hundreds of thousands of F-150s, Expeditions, and their offspring stopped building vehicles to ready it for small car production.
- Ford’s 5-millionth Ecoboost-equipped Vehicle Is A 1.0l Focus
Ford has built the 5-millionth EcoBoost-equipped vehicle at its assembly plant in Wayne, Michigan. The milestone car is a Ford Focus equipped with the 1.0-liter unit, the smallest from the EcoBoost family. On the Focus, the 1.0-liter EcoBoost engine...
- Gm Idles Pickup Production Once Again To Reduce Inventory
General Motors announced that it will temporarily halt production at its Fort Wayne plant in Indiana for the week starting November 7, in order to reduce its inventory of pickup trucks models. This is not the first time that GM has stopped production...
- Gm Reduces Truck Production Due To Unusually High Inventories
General Motors is cutting back on production at its Ford Wayne, Indiana plant that builds the GMC Sierra and Chevrolet Silverado pickup trucks, due to reduced demand and high inventories. According to the UAQ Local 2209 site, the Detroit automaker...
- Ford And Mazda Buddy Up And Invest Us$350 Million In Thailand Plant For New Pickup Trucks
Longtime partners Ford Motor Co. and Mazda plan to invest US$350 million in their AutoAlliance (AAT) plant in Thailand to support the production of the next generation of the Ford Ranger and Mazda B-Series compact pickup trucks, which are scheduled to...
- Ford Reopens Cleveland Plant Which Begins Production Of Ecoboost V6
After hearing about all sorts of closures in the auto biz, Ford brings us some good news today with the announcement of the reopening of its Cleveland Engine Plant No.1. The plant, which had been idled since 2007, is now open up for business as it has...
Cars
FORD STOPS BUILDING TRUCKS IN WAYNE - PREPS TO BUILD SMALL CARS
Though still smarting from what wasn't the most successful arguing on their behalf at Congress last week, Ford Motor Company had already decided to "do things differently" before senators and congressmen kept asking them to do so. Yesterday the Wayne, Michigan plant that had been partly responsible for the hundreds of thousands of F-150s, Expeditions, and their offspring stopped building vehicles to ready it for small car production.51 years ago the Wayne plant began building large vehicles for Ford and has gone through the F-Series, Broncos, Expeditions, and Navigators. Another plant that switched from trucks to small cars is the Cuautitlan, Mexico facility that will be building the Ford Fiesta (Scottish car of the year, yippee) by 2010. Ford will invest $75,000,000 in the Wayne plant just for a spectacular body shop. That cost is over and above the cost of basic re-tooling and reorganizing.
- Ford’s 5-millionth Ecoboost-equipped Vehicle Is A 1.0l Focus
Ford has built the 5-millionth EcoBoost-equipped vehicle at its assembly plant in Wayne, Michigan. The milestone car is a Ford Focus equipped with the 1.0-liter unit, the smallest from the EcoBoost family. On the Focus, the 1.0-liter EcoBoost engine...
- Gm Idles Pickup Production Once Again To Reduce Inventory
General Motors announced that it will temporarily halt production at its Fort Wayne plant in Indiana for the week starting November 7, in order to reduce its inventory of pickup trucks models. This is not the first time that GM has stopped production...
- Gm Reduces Truck Production Due To Unusually High Inventories
General Motors is cutting back on production at its Ford Wayne, Indiana plant that builds the GMC Sierra and Chevrolet Silverado pickup trucks, due to reduced demand and high inventories. According to the UAQ Local 2209 site, the Detroit automaker...
- Ford And Mazda Buddy Up And Invest Us$350 Million In Thailand Plant For New Pickup Trucks
Longtime partners Ford Motor Co. and Mazda plan to invest US$350 million in their AutoAlliance (AAT) plant in Thailand to support the production of the next generation of the Ford Ranger and Mazda B-Series compact pickup trucks, which are scheduled to...
- Ford Reopens Cleveland Plant Which Begins Production Of Ecoboost V6
After hearing about all sorts of closures in the auto biz, Ford brings us some good news today with the announcement of the reopening of its Cleveland Engine Plant No.1. The plant, which had been idled since 2007, is now open up for business as it has...