Ford sets itself ambitious target for new diesel site

摘要

Ford is planning to turn out 900,000 diesel engines a year by 2004 at its refurbished Dagenham factory, it claimed this week. The plant, which will lose production of the new Fiesta to Spain next year, is to a benefit from a $500m investment in response to rising European demand for diesel engines. The plant being turned into a diesel centre as part of a redevelopment plan that will see engine production at the site increase from 650,000 a year to 900,000 in two years' time.