Ford shifting all U.S. small-car production to Mexico

Source: Detroit Free Press

CEO Mark Fields told investors the move is part of plans to make production simpler and less expensive.

Ford is shifting all North American small-car production from the U.S. to Mexico, CEO Mark Fields told investors today in Dearborn.

"Over 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 said.
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Fields statement today isn't exactly a surprise either. Ford said in April it would invest $1.6 billion to build a new plant in Mexico and create 2,800 jobs so it can build small cars there. Ford also said in 2015 that it planned to move production of its Ford Focus and C-Max hybrids cars from a plant in Wayne, to another country by 2018.

Ford's decision to build a new plant in Mexico has made it a target for Donald Trump during the presidential election.

"These ridiculous, job-crushing transactions will not happen when I am president," Trump said in a statement issued by his campaign in April.

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