Ford recently assembled its 350,000,000th vehicle and it is a Ford Focus. The milestone was celebrated in the Blue Oval’s newest global manufacturing facility in Rayong, Thailand.
John Fleming, Executive Vice President of Global Manufacturing, said, “Producing 350 million vehicles is equivalent to producing one vehicle every 10 seconds for our 109-year history. If placed end to end, the vehicles would stretch to the moon and back – twice.” He added that the production of the Focus in Thailand is significant, and that it underscores the power of the One Ford catchphrase to deliver profitable growth with valued products built in flexible and efficient facilities worldwide.
In addition, according to IHS Automotive, Focus also became the best-selling single car nameplate in the world. Data gathered showed that Ford Focus sold 489,616 units in the first half of the year; the nearest competitor is the Toyota Corolla with 462,187 units sold.
Update: Apparently, IHS Automotive’s data was flawed because the Corolla is also known by different names around the world; Matrix, Auris, Corolla Axio, Corolla Fielder and Corolla Rumion are just some of the names that Toyota has used for its Corolla models. Oh well, sometimes the numbers can be trusted, sometimes perhaps not.
It looks like the sales numbers as touted by Ford are incorrect – a reader has pointed us to reports indicating otherwise. Seems Toyota has issued a protest against the sales numbers; the Japanese automaker says that it has actually sold 603,840 Corollas in the same six-month period.
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don worry, ah pek and ah beng in malaysia still prefer the ultimate vios, city, altis and civic. do play play, very very powerful and sfe one, so safe u need only 2 airbags. even volvo losses to them in safety
impressive, esp. fall in love with ford focus!
…but it’s one of ther worst selling cars in Mesia. We anti-social of what??
The problem is not with Ford cars here, unfortunately its due to the INCOMPETENT CAR DEALERSHIP running their show in Malaysia – ie. Sime Darby.
Even Naza’s Kia & Pug are overtaking them, so that how useless they are.
Besides, their periodic service is expensive and the spare part is triple or more than Toyota or Honda, despites Ford actually is a good and acceptable reliable car. FORD, PLEASE LISTEN TO YOUR FAN HERE IN MALAYSIA! It’s hopeless to complain to deaf ear and greedy bloodsucking Sime Darby.
i agreed with Janji da 3rd Parti!
there is not much Ford service centre around even in Klang Valley are!
Thinking of getting a 2 years old Vitara. Is this a good decision? any Vitara owners out there for some comments..
the problem with ford, pug & the rest are expensive spare parts and high service charge, service center are limited and it may take unnecessary time to get parts.
Lets not even mentoion the expensive car price.