The future Ford Focus for the US market will be imported from China
- The new generation of the Ford Focus which will be marketed in North America (USA, Canada, Mexico) from 2019 (the European version is due to be launched at the end of 2018), will be imported from China instead of Mexico ( a new plant located in San Luis Potosi or an existing plant located in Hermosillo) as originally planned. This announcement was made last month by the American manufacturer.
- In 2016, the Ford Focus was one of the best-selling sedans in the world (nearly 700,000 sales).
- It is currently produced in Europe (255,000 units in 2016), China (217,000 units), the United States (162,000 units), Argentina (39,000 units) and Russia (12,000 units). Each plant supplies its own market. Beginning in 2019, this situation is expected to change as China is expected to supply both the Chinese and the North American markets.
- China is expected to produce 400,000 Focus each year from 2019 (reaching a level already reached in 2013 and 2014), of which nearly half will be exported to North America.
- The Wayne, Michigan plant, which produces the Focus for the North American markets today, will stop this activity at the end of 2018 and concentrate on manufacturing the future Ranger (to be launched in 2019) and Bronco ( to be launced in 2020) light trucks. Production of the new Focus generation will start in Chongqing (China) in early 2019.
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