The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
... its body shop in November when the tooling and equipment specific to the Ford Expedition and Lincoln Navigator will be disassembled and transferred to Kentucky Truck Plant [...] in the interim, 1,000 employees will be transferred next door to Wayne Assembly Plant where a third crew will be added in January to accommodate increased production of the hot-selling Ford Focus" We're still...
Sacramento Executive (Free subscription) | 27/08/2008
Gillian remarked to me this week that I have found my calling - papparazzi. I am shameless - chasing people down the street as I did earlier on Monday when I spotted a black Lincoln Navigator pulling up to the...
Truckblog News (Free subscription) | 27/08/2008
Ford Motor Company will invest $75 million in Michigan Truck Plant’s body shop to prepare for small-vehicle production' The plant will begin converting its body shop in November when the tooling and equipment specific to the Ford Expedition and Lincoln Navigator will be disassembled and transferred to Kentucky Truck Plant, which begins producing the large SUVs in the second quarter of...
AutoblogGreen (Free subscription) | 27/08/2008
Filed under: Manufacturing/Plants , Ford Ford's product transformation to small cars is beginning with a big investment in the Michigan Truck Plant. The plant in the Detroit suburb of Wayne has been building the full-size Expedition and Lincoln Navigator SUVs for the last decade but it's currently in the final week of an 11-week shutdown. Ford recently announced the plant would be retooled...
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 26/08/2008
... convert several truck plants, including Michigan Truck, which builds the large Ford Expedition and Lincoln Navigator, to car plants.Michigan Truck Plant in Wayne will begin converting its body shop in November. The tooling and equipment specific to the Ford Expedition and Lincoln Navigator will be disassembled and transferred to the Kentucky Truck Plant, which begins...
USA Today (Free subscription) | 27/08/2008
Ford had said in July that it would convert several plants to small car production. Tuesday, it laid out details for the Wayne, Mich., plant that currently makes Ford Expedition and Lincoln Navigator full-size SUVs. Expedition sales are off 39% this year; Navigator's, 28%, Autodata says.
Detroit News (Free subscription) | 27/08/2008
Next spring, Ford will move production of the Ford Expedition and Lincoln Navigator to its Kentucky Truck Plant. After that, Ford will begin retooling Michigan Truck to produce smaller, more fuel-efficient vehicles based on its new global compact platform. The plant's 1,000 employees will be transferred next door to the Wayne Assembly Plant, where Ford will add a third shift in January...
Indy Star (Free subscription) | 27/08/2008
WAYNE, Mich. » Ford Motor Co. said Wednesday it will spend $75 million to retool part of its Michigan Truck factory to make car bodies, part of its plan to convert some truck factories to make smaller vehicles. Michigan Truck's 1,000 workers who now make Ford Expedition and Lincoln Navigator sport utility vehicles will be sent to the nearby Wayne Assembly Plant, where Ford plans to add...
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 26/08/2008
... its body shop in November when the tooling and equipment specific to the Ford Expedition and Lincoln Navigator will be disassembled and transferred to Kentucky Truck Plant, which begins producing the large SUVs in the second quarter of 2009. The move paves the way for Michigan Truck to convert to a car plant that will begin producing global C-car based vehicles in 2010. In the...
CARSCOOP (Free subscription) | 26/08/2008
... begin in November when Ford starts moving the tooling equipment specific to the Expedition and Lincoln Navigator to the Kentucky Truck Plant, which begins producing the large SUVs in mid-2009. The move will open the way for Michigan Truck’s plant to be retooled to a car plant that will begin producing global C-car based vehicles in 2010. -Continued As for the Michigan plant’s 1,000...
Green Car Congress (Free subscription) | 26/08/2008
Ford Motor Company will invest $75 million in Michigan Truck Plant’s body shop to prepare for small-vehicle production. The move paves the way for Michigan Truck to convert to a car plant that will begin producing global C-car based vehicles in 2010. The plant will begin converting its body shop in November when the tooling and equipment specific to the Ford Expedition and Lincoln Navigator...
atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 26/08/2008
... factories to make smaller vehicles.Michigan Truck's 1,000 workers who now make Ford Expedition and Lincoln Navigator sport utility vehicles will be sent to the nearby Wayne assembly plant, where Ford plans to add a third shift to make more Focus small cars.The move will begin in November, when Ford starts moving the equipment to build the big SUVs to the Kentucky truck plant in Louisville....
MSNBC.com (Free subscription) | 27/08/2008
... announced plans to convert the Michigan Truck plant in Wayne from its current products, the giant Lincoln Navigator and Ford Expedition SUVs, to small cars in 2010. It's part of Ford's effort to shift three factories from trucks to cars to match consumer demand, which has rapidly moved away from trucks and SUVs with gas prices around $4 per gallon.Due to sagging demand for SUVs, Ford...
Time (Free subscription) | 26/08/2008
Article Tools (WAYNE, Mich.) — Ford Motor Co. said Wednesday it will spend $75 million to retool part of its Michigan Truck factory to make car bodies, part of the automaker's plan to convert some truck factories to make smaller vehicles.Related ArticlesMichigan Truck's 1,000 workers who now make Ford Expedition and Lincoln Navigator sport utility vehicles will be sent to the nearby Wayne...
Motor Authority (Free subscription) | 26/08/2008
... shop to meet the needs of the model to be produced there. The tooling for the Ford Expedition and Lincoln Navigator that had previously been produced there will be shipped to the company’s Kentucky Truck plant, which will have the equipment up and running by the second quarter of 2009. That will create the room to begin producing global C-platform vehicles, such as the European Kuga...
