Pacheco Stamping and Assembly

General Pacheco Stamping and Assembly
Ford assembly plant in General Pacheco
Operated1961; 64 years ago (1961)
LocationGeneral Pacheco, Buenos Aires Province
IndustryAutomotive
ProductsAutomobiles, trucks
Employees3,500
Owner(s)Ford Argentina
Websiteford.com.ar/plantapacheco

The Pacheco Stamping and Assembly is a Ford Motor Company automobile factory in General Pacheco, Argentina, opened in 1961, and spanning 1,308,000 square metres (14,079,200 sq ft). As of 2018, the plant employed 3,500 workers.

Vehicles manufactured

Since the plant opening in 1961:

Name Type Produced
F-100/150 Pickup truck 1961–97
F-600/700 Truck 1961–92
F-350/400/500 Medium-duty truck 1961–92
Falcon Sedan / station wagon 1962–91
Fairlane Mid-size 1969–81
Falcon Ranchero Coupé utility 1973–91
Taunus Mid-size 1974–83
Sierra Mid-size 1984–93
Escort C-segment 1987–2002
Orion C-segment 1994–97
Ranger Pickup truck 1996–present
Focus Compact 1999–2019
Cargo Truck 1999–2000

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Only assembled in the plant of La Boca (1959–61), and then fully manufactured (starting in 1961) in General Pacheco.
  2. ^ Assembled only (1962–63); from 1963 that year, the Falcon became the first Ford 4-door sedan fully produced in Argentina.
  3. ^ Not the original Ford Ranchero but an adapted local Falcon body.
  4. ^ Updated to the T6 (sixth generation), released in 2020.
  5. ^ Introduced by Ford Europe in 1998. The third generation of the Focus was released in 2011 with similar design for both markets, Europe and North America.

References

  1. ^ a b Historia de Ford en Argentina y la de sus modelos. AutoHistoria (in Spanish).
  2. ^ La pick up más vendida del mundo: sus 10 hitos en 45 años de historia. Infobae, 10 July 2020 (in Spanish).
  3. ^ "Ford F-600 (1961-1990)" on Camión Argentino, 12 Aug 2014
  4. ^ Dilan Bucchianeri Lima (15 July 2020) A 57 años del primer Falcon "nacional". Parabrisas (in Spanish).
  5. ^ Así probábamos al primer Falcon. Parabrisas, 15 May 2019 (in Spanish).
  6. ^ Ford presentó la nueva Ranger. Parabrisas, 25 June 2019 (in Spanish).
  7. ^ Ostmann, Bernd, ed. (July 15, 1998). "Focus nur fuer Auslands-Modelle: Gerichtsurteil gegen Ford". Auto, Motor und Sport (in German). 15 (9).
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