May 6th, 2009 - Los Angeles Times
Call it a fork in the road for America's second-largest automaker.
Ford announced yesterday that it is pouring $550 million into the ongoing conversion of a Michigan truck plant into a facility that will produce the Ford Focus compact -- including a zero-emissions electric version of the Focus.
For 51 years, the Michigan Truck Plant in Wayne, Mich., west of Detroit, cranked out Ford Bronco sport-utility vehicles and the classic Ford F-series pickup. For years, the Ford F-150 was America's best-selling vehicle and the metaphorical backbone of a working nation. The plant also produced the three-ton, 14- mile per gallon Lincoln Navigator and Ford Expedition -- among the biggest SUVs on the road, 300-horsepower monsters built to tow powerboats and give environmentalists something to hate.
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