Nobody would dispute that Ford knows how to build motor vehicles.
Ford Motor Company of Southern Africa is closing in on a century of doing so, having started assembling the Ford Model T in a converted woolshed in Gqeberha, Port Elizabeth then in 1923.
We contribute more than 1% of South Africa’s GDP by exporting two-thirds of our local production of nearly 170,000 vehicles to more than 100 global markets. Ford invested R11-billion in South Africa between 2009 and 2018 to bolster that output.
Naturally, we’re proud of that. But business, like life, is never static. In February 2021 we announced an investment of $1.05-billion in our South African manufacturing operations – the biggest investment in Ford’s 97-year history in South Africa.