Best Start Ever for Ford Escape and Lincoln MKC Sales Drives More Production at Louisville SUV Plant
June 07 2017 - 11:00AM
Business Wire
- Ford is building its most popular SUV,
the Ford Escape, an extra week at Louisville Assembly Plant this
summer due to stronger demand
- Portions of seven North American Ford
component plants will take a one-week shutdown, while all other
North American Ford plants will take the traditional two-week
summer shutdown
- Ford continues to match production with
customer demand
Ford Escape and Lincoln MKC sales are off to their best start in
company history during the first five months of the year, prompting
the company to shorten the traditional two-week summer shutdown at
Louisville Assembly Plant to build more than 8,500 additional
vehicles there.
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Ford is building its most popular SUV,
the Ford Escape, an extra week at Louisville Assembly Plant this
summer due to stronger demand. (Photo: Business Wire)
“The record sales for Ford Escape through May are being driven
by strong demand from our retail customers,” said Raj Nair, Ford’s
executive vice president and president – North America. “This is
our strongest ever retail start for Escape, with retail sales up
more than 6 percent versus this time last year.”
Ford Escape sales totaled 129,805 through May of this year, a 3
percent increase versus the same time period last year and our best
ever start to the year for Escape. Lincoln MKC sales totaled 11,161
in the first five months of the year, up approximately 10 percent
over this time period last year.
Louisville Assembly Plant is the only assembly plant in North
America that will shorten the summer shutdown period. The remainder
of Ford assembly plants in North America will have a traditional
two-week summer shutdown.
Portions of a number of component plants will take a one-week
summer shutdown, including: Van Dyke Transmission, Sterling Axle,
Chihuahua Engine, Rawsonville, Chicago Stamping, Michigan Assembly
Stamping and Woodhaven Stamping. Those plants will be closed the
week of July 4 for building maintenance and machine retooling.
This production was included in the second quarter production
guidance that Ford provided on April 27.
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opportunities with investments in electrification, autonomy and
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