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Ford starts small car conversion with $75 million at Michigan truck plant

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 to build C-cars in 2010. C-cars are compacts like the Ford Focus and the company has announced that several different variants derived from the next generation European Focus platform would be built ... Read more →

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