Ford Shifts All Small Car Manufacturing to Mexico


Future buyers might think that their Ford Fiesta was built in the USA, but soon that will not be the case. As it turns out, the small car’s name may be more apt than originally thought.

Ford Motors has now announced it intends to move all its small car manufacturing lines out of Detroit and the U.S. and into its Mexico-based plants.

In a September 14 statement, Ford CEO Mark Fields insisted that in the “next two to three years, we will have migrated all of our small car production to Mexico and out of the United States.”

Fields added that Ford is investing an additional $4.5 billion to develop electric vehicles by 2020, most of which will be spent in its Mexico facilities. The company also said all emerging small car models will be made south of the border.

The move to shift all production to Mexico should not come as a major surprise, as in April, Ford had already launched a $1.6 billion building plan for enlarging facilities in San Luis Potosi, Mexico.

After this move, and considering that Chrysler is effectively an Italian brand now, Americans have fewer and fewer ways to buy an American car.

Source: Breitbart



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