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September 20, 2016 01:00 AM

Ford fires back at Trump, citing Ohio-made trucks

Keith Naughton, Bloomberg News
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    Ford has sold 10,160 of its F-650 and F-750 trucks this year through August, up 59 percent.

    DETROIT (Sept. 20, 2016) — Ford Motor Co. is attempting to push back against criticism by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump for moving work to Mexico by highlighting its booming business in big trucks after shifting production to an Ohio factory from south of the border.

    The auto maker has sold 10,160 of its F-650 and F-750 trucks this year through August. That's up 59 percent from the same period in 2015 and the highest sales of those models since 1997, the auto maker said Sept. 19. The big trucks are used as commercial vehicles, including beer haulers and tow, moving and dump trucks.

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    Donald Trump, the 45th U.S. president-elect

    Ford is firing back at Mr. Trump, who last week called the auto maker “a disgrace” after CEO Mark Fields told investors that the second-largest U.S. auto maker is moving North American small-car production to Mexico, where labor costs are lower than in the U.S. After the candidate threatened to levy a 35 percent tariff on Ford's Mexican-built cars should he become president, Mr. Fields said the company is “absolutely not” cutting U.S. jobs to move small-car operations south because the Michigan plant currently building them will manufacture other models.

    It wasn't the first time the Republican presidential candidate, businessman and golf course magnate has teed off on Ford. In August 2015 Mr. Trump came to the home state of the auto industry and attacked Ford for building factories in Mexico.

    ‘American jobs'

    “It's really unfortunate when politics get in the way of the facts,” Mr. Fields said in a Sept. 15 interview on CNN. “And the facts are, Ford's investment in the U.S. and commitment to American jobs has never been stronger.

    “I mean, we've created more than 28,000 jobs in the U.S. in the last five years.”

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    Mark Fields

    Ford began producing the F-650 and F-750 at its assembly plant near Cleveland a year ago after the company spent $168 million converting the factory from building Econoline vans. They previously had been produced in Mexico in a joint venture with Navistar International Corp. known as Blue Diamond Trucking Co., which disbanded in 2014. The auto maker now builds its full-size van, known as the Transit, at an assembly plant in Claycomo, Mo.

    The Dearborn, Mich.-based vehicle maker is focusing on building high-margin trucks, vans and SUVs in the U.S., where labor costs are more expensive than in Mexico. Ford derives most of its profit from its F-series truck line, Morgan Stanley has said. And the largest vehicles in the line generate the biggest return, according to analysts. By going it alone in the big-truck market, Ford no longer has to share profits with Navistar.

    After parting with Navistar, Ford redesigned the F-650 and F-750 to offer them in a variety of body styles and with either gasoline or diesel engines. General Motors Co. exited that segment of the truck market following its 2009 government-backed bankruptcy.

    “We're seeing growing interest in the new tractor from beverage and hauling fleets,” Kevin Koester, Ford's marketing manager for the models, said in a statement. “Towing and rental customers have embraced the gas engine.”

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    This Bloomberg News report appeared on the website of Automotive News, a Detroit-based sister publication of Tire Business.

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