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Ford's 'redesign' for Europe emphasizes SUVs, LCVs

Although Ford of Europe loses money on passenger vehicles, so far the automaker has only indicated it will drop the C-Max (shown).
February 08, 2019 11:05 AM

Ford revealed an eye-catching figure in January: the U.S. automaker has earmarked 90 percent of its global capital allocation, or future spend through 2023, for "trucks and utilities," meaning commercial vehicles, pickups and SUVs. Ford’s former plan called for 64 percent of the spend for 2016-2020 to be dedicated to those models.

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