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Economy
Ford Sees Sales Soar After Moving Production from Mexico to Ohio
2016-11-17
BLUF: [LI] Perhaps sensing that the country may be heading in a new, anti-globalist direction, Ford shifted the production of a line of trucks from Mexico to Ohio in mid-2015!

Ford’s [F-650 and F-750 medium-duty commercial] trucks which used to be built in Mexico started rolling off an assembly line in Ohio this week.

That’s good news for the 1,000 Ford workers in Ohio, who might have otherwise been out of work.

It’s also good publicity for Ford (F), which has been under fire for investing so much in Mexico. In April, the automaker said it would invest $2.5 billion in transmission plants in the Mexican states of Chihuahua and Guanajuato, creating about 3,800 jobs there.

To say that their line subsequently had a successful sales year would be an understatement, as sales of medium-duty trucks soared :

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Posted by:Besoeker

#8  No 'New GM' car will ever sit in my driveway and that goes double for he Cobalts.
( any triple 5, or El Camino exempt)
Posted by: USN, Ret.   2016-11-17 16:19  

#7  200,000 miles or their next bailout, which ever comes first (as pre-bailout buyers found out).
Posted by: Procopius2k   2016-11-17 14:43  

#6  I have only purchased made in America cars since 1962! I unfortunately had to stop purchasing GM because the transmissions on my last three GM products (Van, Pontiac and Buick)expired at 150,000 miles. I admit that this happened between 1985 and 2008 but I just cannot go back to GM unless they give a 200,000 mile warranty on their transmissions.
Posted by: Titus Glinens1114   2016-11-17 13:21  

#5  I suspect that Ohio's right to work law has something to do with Ford's success there.
Posted by: Iblis   2016-11-17 12:57  

#4  #1 - think he'll get a Nobel Peace Prize? Heh
Posted by: Frank G   2016-11-17 10:47  

#3  Now that Obean is leaving, I wonder if we'll see that Ford commercial where the buyer said he wouldn't buy a vehicle from one of the 'Bail Out' companies?
Posted by: Procopius2k   2016-11-17 08:35  

#2  After the Arab oil embargo and Americans went big time to Japanese small fuel efficient quality assembled cars the UAW et al applied political pressure to put caps on imports. The Japanese voluntarily put caps on, but started building plants in the US, just in case. Just as likely today to buy a 'Japanese' car made in American as an 'American' car made in Mexico or Canada.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2016-11-17 08:34  

#1  Good. Trump works fast--and he's still just POTUS elect.
Posted by: JohnQC   2016-11-17 08:19  

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