They changed their business strategy in the U.S. so that in the U.S., Ford will only make trucks and SUVs. They are taking on considerable debt to retool factories here to build more trucks and SUVs.
Ford’s plan was to move sedan/car production out of the US and import them back to the U.S. However, now that Trump is imposing import tarriffs, Ford just announced they won’t be doing this..
If gas prices keep going up, and a recession hits the U.S., American consumers are likely to switch back to smaller, more fuel efficient cars. Ford won’t have the correct product portfolio to sell to American consumers, and they won’t be able to quickly re-tool to make small cars in the U.S.
