New from the ground up, the 2015 Mustang combines the pony car's ageless appeal with the latest technology and contemporary design. The result is the first Mustang consciously created to be sold around the world, a turbocharged global ambassador of American design, manufacturing and technology.
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The Mustang is produced at the Ford Flat (Michigan) Rock Assembly Plant. From Ford Media:
- In 2013, nine years after moving Mustang production there, Flat Rock Assembly Plant celebrated the 1 millionth Mustang built at the facility.
- In the last year, the plant has been transformed. As part of a $555 million investment, it has added a state-of-the-art, fully flexible body shop to allow multiple models to be produced on the same line, supporting Ford’s flexible manufacturing efforts. Other technologies recently incorporated at Flat Rock include three-wet paint process, dirt detection and laser brazing.
- In addition to Mustang, Flat Rock Assembly Plant also produces Ford Fusion. The facility has approximately 3,000 employees working two shifts at full line speed.
- Flat Rock Assembly Plant has been producing vehicles since 1987, when it opened as Mazda Motor Manufacturing USA and built Mazda MX-6. Ford purchased a 50 percent share in the facility in 1992, and it was renamed AutoAlliance International. Over the years, the plant has produced Mazda 626, Mazda6, Mercury Cougar and Ford Probe.
- For the first time in its 50-year history, Mustang will be available globally to customers in more than 120 countries around the world.
- The addition of a right-hand-drive Mustang to Ford’s global vehicle lineup will allow the iconic pony car to be exported to more than 25 right-hand-drive markets around the world, including the United Kingdom, Australia and South Africa.
Those of you who travel I-75 can see the plant to the west of the highway. You may remember the plant used to be a Mazda plant and then was called Auto Alliance.
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