Ford is showing positive signs by beginning production on the Ford Transit Connect.
Ford have struggled recently in the global recession with car sales in the United States plummeting. Their European operations have helped but the trend for big vehicles state side hindered them.
In some welcome news Ford will begin production of the Ford Transit Connect in a US assembly plant by 2012. The current version is built in Turkey based on a version of our home grown Ford Focus platform. The next generation of the Ford Transit built in the US will also change to the smaller Focus platform.
In the trend to downsize plants in Wayne, Michigan and Louisville, Kentucky will be retooled to build cars on that architecture, meaning the that Transit could join them. An electric version is also set to join the 2.0-liter four-cylinder in 2010.
No official figures of production have been quoted as Ford are waiting to see how the current version performs as it has recently hit the shop floor.
E. Dooley
21/07/2009
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