Ford to transfer Transit Connect production to Mexico
- Ford Europe now has four van ranges, tiered in terms of size and price: Transit Courier (N1-1 segment), Transit Connect (N1-2), Transit Custom (N1-3) and Transit all in all (N1-4).
- Three of these models are manufactured in Turkey, at Ford's Kocaeli plant: Transit Courier, Transit Custom and Transit. Transit Connect is manufactured exclusively in Spain, in the Valencia plant, due to insufficient production capacity at the Kocaeli site (this site has been manufacturing more than 300,000 vehicles per year since 2015).
- Before the launch of the Transit Courier, the Transit Connect was manufactured in Kocaeli, but since the current generation launched at the end of 2013, it has been manufactured in Valencia. The next generation launched in 2021 will be produced entirely at one of Ford's Mexican sites in Cuantitlan or Hermosillo. These two sites currently produce Fiesta and Fusion, respectively.
- But Ford has already announced that these two models will soon disappear. The transfer of the Transit Connect from Valencia to Cuantitlan or Hermosillo will make it possible to safeguard the activity in one of these Mexican plants.
- As for the Valencia plant, it will stop manufacturing Transit Connect and also Mondeo, Galaxy and S-Max, but it should keep the SUV Kuga. Its future is therefore not threatened in the short term.
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