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10K mile view, automation is part of it but offshoring jobs is also part of it. My vehicle was manufactured in Mexico. The one I owned before that was manufactu
by Clubber 9y ago
10K mile view, automation is part of it but offshoring jobs is also part of it. My vehicle was manufactured in Mexico. The one I owned before that was manufactured in the US. The manufacture is still highly automated, but it's cheaper to do in Mexico for various reasons, one being cheaper labor, another being no tariffs.
- dragontamer 9y ago> one being cheaper labor, another being no tariffs. The most important of which is that specialization is the key to efficiency. The USA plants manufacture Ford F-150. But the Ford Fusion is manufactured in Mexico. Having all of your plants in one city making the F150 and ONLY the F150 means parts for that vehicle are more readily available, more specialists who understand the process are grouped together, and the community grows as a whole. Cars definitely need to be made per-country basis in general. The USA has slightly different regulations than UK (Driver seat for instance). Often times: when a plant moves to Mexico, its more so that Ford can increase production of a particular model in a particular area. Scaling up the F150 to even greater production numbers? Well, its cheaper to move the assembly lines to another country, and then grow the F150 plant.