Photo show of Canadian St. Thomas Assy Plant

[Falcon_LS]

Thought this would be nice to post. Pictures and the show available here.

 

[oilboy123]

Why did it close?

 

[FowVay]

Sad.

 

[CROWNVIC4LIFE]

Originally Posted By: oilboy123

Why did it close?

It is where they made the Panthers.

 

[CROWNVIC4LIFE]

Thanks you very much for sharing Falcon_LS..It actually brought tears to my eyes. Unless you are a Panther lover like me and Falcon_LS [and maybe 5 or 10 other guys here on Bob Is The Oil Guy] you would not understand this in million years.

 

[austinlunsford]

panther owner here too, very sad

 

[austinlunsford]

reminds me of the hapeville, ga plant closing in 06. had some friends lose their jobs

 

[GMBoy]

Nice video, thanks for the post. I've been thru a plant closing (GM Baltimore plant) and it's never easy.

 

[Bluestream]

Originally Posted By: oilboy123

Why did it close?

Not sure, over capacity maybe...50 years of building cars; I guess they had a good run...

 

[Colt45ws]

Too expensive to keep running. It was running way under capacity.

 

[OVERKILL]

They SHOULD have moved production of the Fusion there........

 

[Nick R]

Originally Posted By: OVERK1LL

They SHOULD have moved production of the Fusion there........

Agreed. But I doubt that it would have been cost effective to move all the tooling from Mexico to Canada. Plus, the Mexican plant where the Fusion is made has won many quality awards, so quality isn't an issue. But I agree with you, it would be nice if Ford had moved more production back to the US/Canucks

 

[OVERKILL]

Originally Posted By: Nick R

Originally Posted By: OVERK1LL

They SHOULD have moved production of the Fusion there........

Agreed. But I doubt that it would have been cost effective to move all the tooling from Mexico to Canada. Plus, the Mexican plant where the Fusion is made has won many quality awards, so quality isn't an issue. But I agree with you, it would be nice if Ford had moved more production back to the US/Canucks

Exactly. IMHO, any Canadian/American plants are where Ford should have its loyalty. We have been the consumers of the products produced at these plants.

 

[Bluestream]

Originally Posted By: OVERK1LL

Originally Posted By: Nick R

Originally Posted By: OVERK1LL

They SHOULD have moved production of the Fusion there........

Agreed. But I doubt that it would have been cost effective to move all the tooling from Mexico to Canada. Plus, the Mexican plant where the Fusion is made has won many quality awards, so quality isn't an issue. But I agree with you, it would be nice if Ford had moved more production back to the US/Canucks

Exactly. IMHO, any Canadian/American plants are where Ford should have its loyalty. We have been the consumers of the products produced at these plants.

I think Mexico buys a lot of cars as well; maybe more than Canada. They deserve a piece of the production also. It only fair...

 

[OVERKILL]

Originally Posted By: Bluestream

Originally Posted By: OVERK1LL

Originally Posted By: Nick R

Originally Posted By: OVERK1LL

They SHOULD have moved production of the Fusion there........

Agreed. But I doubt that it would have been cost effective to move all the tooling from Mexico to Canada. Plus, the Mexican plant where the Fusion is made has won many quality awards, so quality isn't an issue. But I agree with you, it would be nice if Ford had moved more production back to the US/Canucks

Exactly. IMHO, any Canadian/American plants are where Ford should have its loyalty. We have been the consumers of the products produced at these plants.

I think Mexico buys a lot of cars as well; maybe more than Canada. They deserve a piece of the production also. It only fair...

I'm sure Mexico does buy a fair number of cars. But are the cars that are built in Mexico, sold in Mexico? Do you see a lot of Ford Fusion's driving around down there?