Ford to Build Fiesta in Mexico

Wall Street Journal ^ | 5/30/08 | KEVIN KINGSBURY and MIKE BARRIS

[BurbankKarl]

Verve Concept

[Brilliant]

Unionized Mexican wages are lower than unionized American wages.

The UAW is working itself out of a job.

[clee1]

Couldn’t happen to a more deserving bunch of a$$holes.

[Sybeck1]

Siestas in Fiestas?

[avacado]

I wish that American companies that do go overseas would build their plants in Mexico. This could drain China and be a lure for illegal Mexicans to stay in their own country.

[Munson]

Id rather have it made in Mexico than China. And it helps bring jobs and opportunity to Mexicans instead of having them moving across the border.

[Para-Ord.45]

What company makes the Piniata ?

[AppyPappy]

Ask VW about that

[FFranco]

All unions should be outlawed. They are destroying American competitiveness.

[NewJerseyJoe]

Whaddaya know, a Mexican fiesta.
Never saw that coming.

[Moose4]

Nothing new here—my 1996 Dodge Ram 1500 had its final assembly done somewhere around Mexico City. And, it’s held up great for 162,000 miles and thirteen years.

The irony is, my previous car, a “Japanese” 1991 Mitsubishi Eclipse GSX AWD Turbo, was assembled...in the Diamond-Star Motors plant in Normal, Illinois. So my Japanese car was built in America, and my American truck was built in Mexico.

}:-)4

[Phantom Lord]

So, for the "Buy American" crowd, is it better for me to buy a Fiesta made in Mexico or a Nissan made in Tennesse?

Obviously the Nissan from a standpoint of a quality car that one would actually want to drive.

I am asking purely on the "buy American" aspect.

[pnh102]

The UAW is working itself out of a job.

Nah, they will just try to be the bargaining agent for the Mexican auto workers.

[mysterio]

Even without unions, Americans wouldn't work for the $1.46 an hour the Mexicans will work for.

Once free trade is complete, we can all sit at home unemployed and just put it all on credit card after credit card. Just like our government does.

[pnh102]

I am asking purely on the "buy American" aspect.

Both of our Hondas were made in Ohio using mostly US made parts. I had zero qualms about buying them.

[vietvet67]

Options?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jc-0NNGAvL0&feature=related

[FlashBack]

How soon before the Mexicans build a fence to keep us out of their workforce?? Seems like an awful lot of jobs going south of the border while their population keeps headed here for the freebies...and the “jobs we won’t do”.

[caisson71]

I’ll bet this move by Ford is the result of lower taxes, better union contracts, less government meddling, more government support for infrastructure and cheaper power and a less adversairial relationship with government. In addition, worker fringe benefits are probably not government mandated and cost prohibitive. I wonder how many illegal American workers will be “allowed” to work there by the Mexican government?

[taildragger]

Note:

One of 3 worldwide manufacturing facilities for the same (pretty much) design if my memory is correct. Global platforms and other related engineering cost saving activities have been discussed widely in the auto press. This vehicle may embody many of their efforts.

High hopes for this car from the Ford folks I talk too.