The Ford Truck plant in Oakville, Ontario Canada is closed The home of the Lightning aka "Ontario Rocket Sled" is no longer building F-150s. So I wonder where the 3rd Gen will be built? Here is the news clip:

FROM CANADIAN PRESS

Ford Canada closed its pickup truck assembly plant in Oakville, Ont., today, after producing four million trucks in 39 years.

The closure of the 1,200-worker factory, whose workforce was high as 2,100 until 1993, was first revealed more than two years ago, as part of parent firm Ford Motor Co.'s move in early 2002 to trim costs and jobs and eventually close five plants.

The Canadian Auto Workers union, which represents workers at the factory, tried to save the plant in collective bargaining sessions held in the fall of 2002, but reluctantly accepted its eventual closure in exchange for protection of jobs. About 700 workers have accepted early retirement packages and some 500 will transfer to the adjacent Freestar minivan plant in Oakville.

But the union also said the shutting down of the truck plant was based on a "political decision," because Ford no longer had to have as much manufacturing in Canada with the dismantling of the Auto Pact several years ago. That pact forced car companies to make a number of vehicles and parts here equal to the value of vehicles they sold here. It was later struck down by the World Trade Organization.

The union is now urging the next federal government to help secure funding for the building of a new "flexible" manufacturing site in Oakville that would be able to produce vehicles on multiple platforms.

 

I know that and a bit more.

 

Ummmmm ... MEXICO ????

 

A SAD DAY INDEED, So long Gen II

As long as they build the GenIII, and it don't spit plugs + rods,
I don't care if they use Gators Basement

is that where they're building them SVT_KY ?

 

Mexico going to get the top 2 performance trucks in the world built there? I think the Dodge SRT-10 is being assembled in Mexico. I hope they build the 3rd Gen where it should be built - Detroit (or its adjoining suburbs). Shame they're not building it in Lorain, OH plant that recently closed down, too.

 

Nope. It'll be at one of the three current plants that still produce the F150, all of which are in the states.

Because I value my income, I'm not a liberty to divulge anything. Sorry.

 

The DTP ? I hope so. With the new Mustang being built in Flat Rock, is the Lightning going to Dearborn?

 

.........building a Lightning in a land thats known for cookin' up its own (White) Lightnin' would be appropriate, too. KTP.

 

come on Bob let us in, we won't tell

 

The new Truck Plant at the Rouge will get the III Gen Lightning. It is a state of the art facility. Bet your $$$ on it.

 

Its been in the news a number of times already - I dont have it memorized ...But its out there...