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AFP - US auto giant Ford has started construction on a $1 billion manufacturing and engineering complex in India as it bets on the country to help drive global growth, a company statement said on Tuesday.
The new manufacturing facilities in Sanand in the western state of Gujarat will create 5,000 jobs, and will be able initially to produce 240,000 vehicles and 270,000 engines a year, Ford said.
The first vehicles and engines are due to come off the line in 2014.
Ford building $1bn manufacturing complex in India - FRANCE 24 (http://www.france24.com/en/20110906-ford-building-1bn-manufacturing-complex-india - broken link)
Create a anti-business climate...Congress read "D" and POTUS "D" and business will go elsewhere...what a concept!
The Ford Motor Company has had subsidiaries all around the world since the 1920's. These subsidiaries build vehicles tailored to the local countries in which they are based, using local employees to design, engineer and build the vehicles. You might as well kvetch about Ford's British, German, South African or Brazilian subsidiaries.
Bottom line is that a vehicle designed and built in the United States isn't going to sell very well in India and a vehicle designed and built in India probably wouldn't sell at all in the United States - the two cultures have very different transportation wants and needs.
You forgot Japan and Mazada.
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Originally Posted by KRAMERCAT
Ford might be shooting itself in the foot. A lot of Americans buy Ford because they want to 'buy American', and Ford was like the quintessential Ameican company - no more I guess.
Did you drop out of school in the 5th Grade?
Let's see, there's 308 Million Americans, and 1 Billion Indians.
AFP - US auto giant Ford has started construction on a $1 billion manufacturing and engineering complex in India as it bets on the country to help drive global growth, a company statement said on Tuesday.
The new manufacturing facilities in Sanand in the western state of Gujarat will create 5,000 jobs, and will be able initially to produce 240,000 vehicles and 270,000 engines a year, Ford said.
The first vehicles and engines are due to come off the line in 2014.
Ford building $1bn manufacturing complex in India - FRANCE 24 (http://www.france24.com/en/20110906-ford-building-1bn-manufacturing-complex-india - broken link)
Do you have an opinion on these actions?
I say good for Ford. Many are not aware that Ford sells cars all over the world. Many of those cars are NOT the same cars Ford makes and sells here.
People have to recognize sooner or later that we ARE in a global economy.
Toyota, BMW, and other "foreign" car companies assemble cars here. Why should Ford be any different.
The corporate world knows that we have provided India with most of our high paying I.T. jobs so they are just pursuing the dollars that have been displaced from here - is that so wrong?
Let's see, there's 308 Million Americans, and 1 Billion Indians.
Get it?
I have gotten further in the educational system than you have, and your stupidity is showing, how many of those Indians could afford to and would want to buy a Ford - they would rather support their own economy and buy a Tata. And how many Americans buy Fords because of the 'American' pedigree? I would say quite a few.
AFP - US auto giant Ford has started construction on a $1 billion manufacturing and engineering complex in India as it bets on the country to help drive global growth, a company statement said on Tuesday.
The new manufacturing facilities in Sanand in the western state of Gujarat will create 5,000 jobs, and will be able initially to produce 240,000 vehicles and 270,000 engines a year, Ford said.
The first vehicles and engines are due to come off the line in 2014.
Ford building $1bn manufacturing complex in India - FRANCE 24 (http://www.france24.com/en/20110906-ford-building-1bn-manufacturing-complex-india - broken link)
AFP - US auto giant Ford has started construction on a $1 billion manufacturing and engineering complex in India as it bets on the country to help drive global growth, a company statement said on Tuesday.
The new manufacturing facilities in Sanand in the western state of Gujarat will create 5,000 jobs, and will be able initially to produce 240,000 vehicles and 270,000 engines a year, Ford said.
The first vehicles and engines are due to come off the line in 2014.
Ford building $1bn manufacturing complex in India - FRANCE 24 (http://www.france24.com/en/20110906-ford-building-1bn-manufacturing-complex-india - broken link)
so you have a problem with ford building cars in india for the indian market? how about ford building cars in europe for the european market? or building cars in australia in the autralian market? ford is trying to increase its market share in india, which is a growing market, by designing cars for the indian people. and its working. ford is selling more cars in india, enough that building a new plant to build new cars there is a good move. just like GM building a new plant in china to build cars for the chinese market.
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Originally Posted by KRAMERCAT
I have gotten further in the educational system than you have, and your stupidity is showing, how many of those Indians could afford to and would want to buy a Ford - they would rather support their own economy and buy a Tata. And how many Americans buy Fords because of the 'American' pedigree? I would say quite a few.
since fords market share is growing in india, i think that indians would in fact BUY cars built there by ford.
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