Hoovey689

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Ford Focus is company's 350th millionth vehicle and world's best-seller so far this year

Ford is celebrating its 350 millionth vehicle. That is an impressive number, spanning back 109 years. The lucky 350 millionth vehicle happens to be a 2013 Ford Focus, which, appropriately enough, is the world's best-selling car for the first six months of this year.

The Focus in question has been built at Ford's Rayong, Thailand plant, the automaker's newest production facility. The Blue Oval invested $450 million into opening the complex in May to produce the Focus, a globally sold vehicle.

In acknowledging its milestone, Ford has released some other fun numbers to sift through. With all of its global production facilities, those 350 million vehicles produced average out to 8,797 units a day – 367 vehicles every hour, or one new car every 10 seconds. See, right there? Ford probably built a new car in the time it took you to read that last sentence or two.

http://www.autoblog.com/2012/08/31/f...d-worlds-best/

Hoovey689

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Way to stay FOCUSED Ford


but really, an awesome feat. <3 Ford

blacksc400

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This generation of Focus received nothing but good reviews! They should sell the Euro Focus in the States from the beginning.

Way to go, Ford!

84Cressida

What's funny is that according to The Truth About Cars, Ford fudged these numbers are not the best selling car YTD - that would still be the Corolla.

mmarshall

Although it may be slightly off the main-topic, it must also be remembered that Ford was also the company that first perfected the automated assembly-line for car production (back with the Model T) and essentially put the country on wheels with an inexpensive, widely-available, affordable car.

spwolf

yes, they seem to be 200k+ under Corolla, but they used "single plate" report, meaning they are not counting Corolla Hatchback as Corolla as it is called Auris

:-)