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  • Ford invests $155M in Cleveland plant to produce Mustang V6

    By Drew Johnson

    Ford has announced it will be investing $155 million in its Cleveland Engine Plant No. 1. The investment will revamp the plant to produce the 3.7L V6 earmarked for the 2011 Ford Mustang, creating an additional 60 jobs along the way.
    The investment will allow the Cleveland plant to produce Ford’s next-generation 3.7-liter DOHC Ti-VCT V6. The new six-pot will develop 305 horsepower under the hood of the 2011 Mustang and is expected to return a class-leading 30mpg.

    “Ford is absolutely committed to delivering class-leading fuel efficiency with every new vehicle we introduce, and this investment in Cleveland provides further proof,” said Bill Russo, director of manufacturing for Ford’s powertrain operations.

    Including the Cleveland investment, has now spent $1.8 billion on North American facility upgrades to support its 2011 model year vehicles. In all, the initiative has created 1,260 new jobs.

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      JakeK66153 days ago
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      Too bad they’re putting the jobs in Cleveland.

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      leftwingagenda153 days ago
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      go cleveland, lord knows they need the help up there

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      jayjc08153 days ago
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      Good news, very good news!!

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      iggibiggi153 days ago
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      Nice! Go Ford! Jake, you can go suck on a fat d!ck!!!!

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      plainspoken153 days ago
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      Good for Ford! Good for Cleveland!!

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      Bankruptcy2009153 days ago
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      Yes Plainspoken I second the motion. Keeps Cleveland moving instead of moving everyone downstate to get a state job in Columbus. Now Next Ford come out with a Transatmospheric Hyper-Ionic WARP Drive to carry us to Jupiter and beyond. All I will need is some Dilithium crystals to make it to work right. Scotty Beam me up this is no intelligent life forms down here with people like the Unrealist lurking around!

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      howsmydriving153 days ago
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      It’s GM that you should thank, not Ford.

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      johnnycanuck153 days ago
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      And when they do Bk, just promise the rest of us you’ll be the first one to drive it there!

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      torquemonster153 days ago
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      Never thought I’d lust after a “sixpot”. Seriously, this’ll be the first time, in my lifetime at least, where getting a Mustang without the V8 doesn’t instantly make you a laughing stock. From now on the gas station conversations will go something like:
      Admirer: Is that a V8?
      Owner: Nope.
      Admirer: Aw.
      Owner: But it’s got over 300 horsepower.
      Admirer: Ah!

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      Dr.Martens152 days ago
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      “Torquemonster”

      Greatest post of February

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      Matt Thompson152 days ago
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      305 HP. Pretty decent for a V6. And 30mpg to boot! Guess I can no longer discount the Mustang on the basis of fuel economy when it comes to car shopping anymore. Maybe the Fordheads should consider attaching names to engines again – having a “Cleveland” in a Mustang?

      It’s sure nice to finally see that the muscle car makers are seeing the value of a smaller engine option that still has some punch to it.

      The Camaro’s V6 numbers are pretty close to that as well, aren’t they?

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      JakeK66152 days ago
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      Leftwing – I’ll take the jobs here over Cleveland. Charity begins at home right?

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      Bankruptcy2009152 days ago
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      johnnycanuck Gladly! As soon as I suck this mudd ball of a planet dry of its argonne gas, Uranium, and other natural energy sources to get me there and all over the galaxy to the Kupiter belt and beyond sir. Ah yes and places that even Galileo Galilei himself never imagined possible! A true visionary armed with a real brought to artifcial life through massive combo parallel IBM PowerXCell 8i/ Intel Core 2 Quad/i7 Processor Powered B-9 Robot I can conquer any planet or planetoid. Stand back I warn you! You Punks

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      leftwingagenda152 days ago
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      i hear ya, jake, i spent 7 years up in cleveland, though, so i feel for the town…very similar vibe to st. louis, honestly (industrial boom towns at the beginning of the 20th century, now down on population and searching for identity)…i used to get sympathy by saying i rooted for the browns, too, but down in st. louis the browns look like the effin’ patriots…the whole midwest could use a boost, economically, tho…

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      leftwingagenda152 days ago
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      i just read bk’s post…i’d like to make a general announcement: DON’T TAKE THE BROWN ACID!

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      JakeK66152 days ago
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      Yeah I get it. I have some family up there and friends from Cleveland. I guess I blame the whole city on the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame being a bunch of sh!t. Seriously, they put a bunch of bands that 99% of people haven’t heard of, but a band like Kiss gets overlooked? I mean, it’s name is flatly wrong – many inductees aren’t even Rock and Roll acts! The O’Jays? Never heard of them before and they were an R&B act too. WTF!?! Political BS.

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      Audi RS5152 days ago
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      Jake just to rub you the wrong way, Rock and Roll has it’s roots in the “black” music scene of the times so the O’Jays, the Supremes and Barry White have just as much rights to get inducted as Kiss, Bon Jovi and Aerosmith. Now if we’re talking about influences to the music and modern bands I don’t see “Gangsta” rappers and this techno noise kids call music fitting in the Hall of Fame.

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      A4151 days ago
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      Alright, I saw the Mustang post right up around the top and thought it would be fitting to give a lets go USA while johnny sucks down a few [dozen] Molson’s.

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      johnnycanuck151 days ago
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      Yeah… like I’m the only one right now!

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      A4151 days ago
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      fail

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      Troll Killer151 days ago
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      30mpg from 300 horses is among the best in the industry right now. That is damn impressive to say it’s NA.

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      MercMark150 days ago
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      Cleveland (and the US) needs every manufacturing job it can get. Thanks Ford.

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      shaver150 days ago
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      ID love too see if the block and assembly parts are US sourced or all made in Mex and assembled in OH.
      Anyone know anything?

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      mobile1ph150 days ago
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      Good for Ford and Cleveland.

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      Paul Mezhir150 days ago
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      Hey JakeK66…..you are a jerk! Who the hell are you to say that someplace isn’t deserving of much-needed jobs? Let me guess, sour grapes because your city didn’t get the job? Tough crap, bud…..Cleveland deserves it.

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      JakeK66149 days ago
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      Paul Mezhir – Yup – I’m a jerk. Call me what you want, but I want jobs here not there. Like I want the Cardinals to win the World Series, not the Indians. It’s all relative.

      Same with you Senators and Congressmen – you want them to fight for your district/state – not someone elses. You find it offensive? Well, tough sh!t, cause that’s life bud.

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      wagon138 days ago
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      I wonder if Ford fixed the water leak issues when they redesigned this new model. If they didn’t, DO NOT buy a Mustang. If you do buy a Mustang do not drive or park it in the rain or this will happen sooner or later http://editpacific.com/mustang.html. It took my Mustang four years to start the water fall that causes all kinds of electrical problems. This is not my car in the video, my car’s leak isn’t that bad yet.

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