Ford USA will import the Focus from China as of the 2019 model year
- The Ford group has confirmed that the future generation of the Focus Sedan to be marketed as of the 2019 model year, that is to say starting autumn 2018, would no longer be manufactured in the United States ( on the Wayne - Michigan site) but imported from China where it will now be manufactured (on the Chongqing site).
- The US version of the Focus Sedan is indeed identical to the Chinese Focus Sedan, that is to say, it has an apparent trunk (sedan body), unlike the European version that includes a hatchback. It is therefore easy to manufacture the American and Chinese versions of the Focus Sedan on the same assembly lines.
- The advantage of this transfer of production from the American Focus to China is to concentrate the manufacture of this model on a single site instead of two and to thus double the volume of production of Chongqing. Since in 2017 practically as many Ford Focus were produced in the United States as in China (around 170,000 units for each of the two assembly plants).
- Ford announced that the US plant that now produces the Focus for the North American market will stop this activity at the end of 2018 in order to concentrate during the following year on the manufacture of the future Ford Ranger (2019) and Bronco (2020) light trucks.
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