Ford to invest $850 million and add 1,200 jobs in Michigan by 2013

To ensure the success of the development of fuel-saving vehicles, Ford Motor Co. will invest $850 million and add 1,200 jobs in Michigan by 2013. Ford said that these moves are supported by $400 million in state incentives. Ford’s factories will have 900 additional hourly positions in its factories while its engineering and manufacturing operations will be getting 300 salaried jobs more. In a statement, Ford said that these jobs will be added at plants including Ford's Van Dyke Transmission, Sterling Axle, Livonia Transmission and the Dearborn Truck Plant
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internationalmanofmystery - 10/27/2010 2:42:02 PM

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In a related story, Ford admits that the job totals will continue to rise once it now figures out how to DESIGN, BUILD, and MARKET cars to compete in the global marketplace it has ignored for decades. One Ford exec exclaims "...better late than never."

Whelan - 10/28/2010 11:04:26 AM

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That's almost 71k a year for 1200 people. Not too shabby.

I'm just happy Ford is now turning profit and bringing cars to the U.S. like they should have years ago. Europe was racing Mondeo's around the track and we got a Contour SVT that was never hyped or kept in the lineup. Now bring us our Fiesta, Focus, Ka SVT models and don't forget the redesigned Fusion (Mondeo) and the sexy upcoming Escape (Kuga). Oh and dab on a little diesel while your at it.

Joe_Limon - 10/28/2010 8:09:04 PM

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last I checked most mazda's had ford "mechanicals"... one sec let me go check again in my moms mazda 6... yep 3.0L v6 duratec.

uaw_lax - 10/29/2010 12:56:11 AM

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leave to sportsbike to be the biggest troll om autospies.

Joe_Limon - 10/29/2010 10:23:53 AM

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cite your sources please. I call bs. It isn't on the main wikipedia article for the duratec engine, but it is in the article for the mondeo engine w/o any cited source. Everything I can find on the internet is citing that uncited source.

Joe_Limon - 10/29/2010 10:50:16 AM

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my source was that nice big duratec logo in the mazda 6. I cited my source.

I am not the one who used wiki, I said you can't use it since as you said you could post that god designed it. Although... getting anything added/changed to wikipedia these days is a fairly intense process and that change wouldn't actually happen.

Still waiting for your source...

topneuro - 10/28/2010 6:38:03 PM

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Ford Stock 11/24/2008: ~$1.00 per share
Ford stock today: $14.22 per share.
Cha-Ching!