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Ford to move production to Mexico: Report
Yahoo News ^ | 8 Feb 2016 | CNBC via Yahoo News

Posted on 02/07/2016 7:46:41 PM PST by 11th_VA

Auto giant Ford is planning a new assembly plant south of the U.S. border, the Wall Street Journal reported Sunday, and will sharply increase factory output from Mexico just months after signing a labor deal.

Citing people familiar with the matter, The Journal reported that Ford will add half a million units of annual capacity from Mexico starting in 2018, which is double the amount it built in 2015. The new assembly complex will be based in An Luis Potosi, and Ford will expand an existing facility near Mexico City, the publication added.

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TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Mexico; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: ford; giantsuckingsound; mexico; michigan; nafta; perotwasright; rossperot
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To: dfwgator

One of the plants is going to be a truck plant. Just provide the mules with wheels


21 posted on 02/07/2016 8:01:29 PM PST by hoosiermama (Make America Great Again by uniting Great Americans!)
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To: 11th_VA
A video from 2009, but interesting.

Ford plant in Brazil

22 posted on 02/07/2016 8:01:51 PM PST by From The Deer Stand (Alka)
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To: mouse1

“Yep between taxes and regulations, our Country keeps pushing every manufacturing job out of our reach.”

What he said ^^^^ .


23 posted on 02/07/2016 8:01:52 PM PST by sparklite2 ( "The white man is the Jew of Liberal Fascism." -Jonah Goldberg)
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To: Sacajaweau

Not to mention the cartels. Are they crazy? This article is from 2011 but I can’t believe it’s done anything but gotten worse.

http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2011/01/now-its-san-luis-potosi.html


24 posted on 02/07/2016 8:03:30 PM PST by MagnoliaB (You can't always get what you want but if you try sometime you might find, you get what you need.)
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To: 11th_VA

More votes for Mr Trump


25 posted on 02/07/2016 8:03:52 PM PST by faithhopecharity ("Politicians are not born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 -- 43 BCE))
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To: Guenevere

Best one was Trump said Pfizer was moving to Europe and some guy in audience yelled “No more Viagrs.”
Trumps laughed but blushed a bit!


26 posted on 02/07/2016 8:04:19 PM PST by hoosiermama (Make America Great Again by uniting Great Americans!)
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To: DannyTN

Yep Tariff them and really dont let them sell here unless we are making big money off them. We can start another manufacturer up too.


27 posted on 02/07/2016 8:05:23 PM PST by Carry me back (.Cut the feds by 90%)
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To: 11th_VA; All

Sadly, if you want to buy a new American-built car, with a majority of American-Made parts, you have to go to a HONDA DEALER....


28 posted on 02/07/2016 8:07:20 PM PST by tcrlaf (They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....)
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To: 11th_VA

U.S. Productivity and Compensation, 1948-2011 (1948=100)

Mexican Productivity and Compensation, 1994-2011


29 posted on 02/07/2016 8:09:44 PM PST by Theoria (I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive)
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To: tcrlaf

Yep, we got an 09 Accord coupe and the only part made in Japan was the engine, a V6. Made in America with non union labor.


30 posted on 02/07/2016 8:10:19 PM PST by biff
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To: 11th_VA


31 posted on 02/07/2016 8:12:33 PM PST by Iron Munro (The wise have stores of choice food and oil but a foolish man devours all he has. Proverbs 21:20)
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To: tcrlaf

My last Ford was always in the shop for repairs. I’d never buy another one no matter where it’s made.


32 posted on 02/07/2016 8:13:35 PM PST by Ciexyz
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To: 11th_VA

500K/yr = two lines.


33 posted on 02/07/2016 8:14:04 PM PST by Paladin2 (w)
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To: Iron Munro

Lol !!!


34 posted on 02/07/2016 8:14:22 PM PST by 11th_VA
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To: 11th_VA
Cool. I'm a free-marketeer. Every dollar I save is a dollar earned. Used to buy “Made in America” exclusively. Never again. Companies and the Unions took advantage of the dopes like me who thought that was the patriotic thing to do. At least with the Communist Chinese, they admit they're Socialists, proudly profess it, unlike us who toy around the edges with the idea and are actually headed there, even beyond them (we passed up France). All I ask now is for the best product made at the least price tendered, period. Then I win, they (take your pick of who) lose.
35 posted on 02/07/2016 8:16:53 PM PST by IAMNO1 (Vote Cruz. Vote Trump.)
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To: Theoria

Thnx for those plots.


36 posted on 02/07/2016 8:17:08 PM PST by Paladin2 (w)
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To: tcrlaf
"Sadly, if you want to buy a new American-built car, with a majority of American-Made parts, you have to go to a HONDA DEALER...."

TRUE! My Honda van is made in the U.S. with mostly U.S. made parts. On my third Honda with NO problems.

My Ford van had a complete Mexican drive train. The timing cover leaked from the factory, the cylinder head gasket blew, and the tranny lunched itself all in just 22,000 miles.

37 posted on 02/07/2016 8:18:53 PM PST by Henchster (Free Republic - the BEST site on the web!)
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To: Sacajaweau

This pisses off Trump too. He harps on it in every rally and has done so since June. No other candidate has brought up companies leaving the US. In fact last night Trump brought up Pfizer leaving.


38 posted on 02/07/2016 8:21:19 PM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common any more.)
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To: central_va

That’s an “In YOUR face” to Trump. Not real swift on Ford’s part, IMHO. And prives they give less than a damn about America or Americans, except to con us into buying their Mexican crap.

I’ve owned 3 Tauruses, 4 Explorers and am now driving an Edge, while my wife drives a Fusion. No more Fords for us. I think my next one may be a Honda. I understand they’re amazingly trouble free, and unlike Fords, they’re made here in the States.


39 posted on 02/07/2016 8:22:09 PM PST by Tucker39 (Welcome to America! Now speak English; and keep to the right....In driving, in Faith, and politics.)
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To: rwh

Maybe he will.


40 posted on 02/07/2016 8:22:22 PM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common any more.)
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