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Ford to add 2,000 jobs at Kansas City plant to produce Transit Van and meet “surging” F-150 demand

Ford has announced that it is adding more than 2,000 jobs at its Kansas City Assembly Plant in order to produce the new Transit work van and to keep up with the demand for its F-150 pickup. The Kansas City plant currently employs 2,450 workers working two shifts and a third crew will be added with […]

May 3, 2013

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Ford shows its new take on Transit commerical van design at Work Truck Show

Ford  Motor Company announced Tuesday at the NTEA Work Truck Show the introduction of the all-new Transit chassis cab and cutaway models, which it says is engineered to tackle an almost unlimited variety of specialized jobs and vocations. The company also unveiled the next-generation Transit Connect compact van/wagon. Tim Stoehr, commercial truck marketing manager for […]

March 6, 2013

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Ford Transit van gets a diesel

This just in: Ford is going to add a five-cylinder diesel engine to the powerplant choices in its 2014 Transit van. The 3.2 liter Power Stoke diesel engine has been in use in Europe and elsewhere around the globe for some time. There it is rated at 197 horsepower and 347 foot-pounds of torque (however […]

December 10, 2012