Why not move the Corsair/Escape to Canada for assembly

[jniffen]

With the plans for the entry level EV CUV being shelved, why won't Ford/Lincoln move the Escape/Corsair assembly to Canada, where the Edge and Nautilus was located.

 

[pwpacp]

With the plans for the entry level EV CUV being shelved, why won't Ford/Lincoln move the Escape/Corsair assembly to Canada, where the Edge and Nautilus was located.

Anything is possible but one thing is for sure, the current US tariff and trade debacle will make the decision exponentially more complicated than it would have been last year.

 

[Price140]

Anything is possible but one thing is for sure, the current US tariff and trade debacle will make the decision exponentially more complicated than it would have been last year.

IMO, it is dillusionoisnal if you agree your govenrment can "fight" the most powerful economy in th world and think they can come out ahead. You need to "negotiate", unless you have a card to play. If you do not, then youll be left on the side of the road. We haave a govermment that deficit spends on useless programs, bedsides the fraud that drives our defiict up filltering down to more wages needed to survive, to more costs for employers, to more costs for working canadians, to more costs for unelmpoyed, to more costs for fraud in the welfare system. There is no longer checks and balances is our syystem. Good luck in finding numbers supporting doing business in Camada. We need a card at the table.

 

[pwpacp]

No delusion about political or economic realities of governments here at all. Ford, like all multinational corporations, make their decisions based on impacts to profitability. When trade agreements or policies are upended it simply makes decisions for investment and operations that much more complicated.

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[B_A_H]

Blatant political leanings aside, it makes no sense to move production to another plant. Retooling a plant can cost several hundred million dollars and the Corsair/Escape in their current iterations are seven years old. Why would Ford go through the expense of retooling a plant only to have to retool it again for the next generation?

Beside, Ford should be fully aware of how to maximize their production capacity. If they felt keeping the Corsair/Escape going was the way to go they wouldn't have killed them to produce different vehicles.

It's highly likely there will be a '27 Corsair but it will be produced in China like the Nautilus. A prototype has already been seen testing in Michigan. The margins on the Corsair are higher than the Escape which would help absorb the import tariffs. YTD through November Lincoln sold 24K Corsairs so the earth will continue rotating if it sunsets.

 

[DrivingEnthusiast]

Dearborn tests everything in production worldwide - other Ford vehicles have always been seen there. Falcons being tested, for example, have been a long-time and very frequent false alarm.
Heck, at one point years ago there was a lot full of Jags and Astons right in Dearborn, next to the (now closed) TGI Fridays. The lot was wide open, you could walk right in (as I did). It also contained mules they were finished with. I made that a regular stop when in town on business, as long as it lasted,

 

[B_A_H]

Here's the test mule. You can tell it's the Chinese Corsair based on the front and rear end. The give away that it has been Americanized are the front and rear side marker lights which aren't on the Chinese version and not required in China. It also has something going on with its exhaust pipes as they are crudely exposed on the mule and behind the bumper cover on the Chinese version. Passing safety and emissions requirements would be necessary to import a U.S. version of the Corsair that's built in China.

Since the Corsair is only sold outside of China in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico, it's pretty clear Ford is Americanizing the Chinese version. Whether the test mule is an experiment or ends up being produced is the only unknown.

 

[DrivingEnthusiast]

The odd pipes are for hooking it up to an emissions testing machine. So this is very interesting.. and not yet announced...
A question is where it would be built in Canada, if it could have been, since the former Edge/Nautilus plant is being converted to trucks. The Corsair and Edge share a platform so they could have been built on the same line. But too bad there's no plant... and it is probably cheaper to import it anyway since they are easily federalized.
I like the Nautilus, but two big marks against it are that it's a Chinese import #1, and #2 is just too big. You could add #3 that it's under-powered.

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