Ford celebrates 100 years in Mexico with investment announcement

Ford has present operated successful Mexico for 100 years, and arsenic portion of the centennial celebrations connected Monday, CEO Jim Farley announced that the institution volition grow its Global Technology and Business Center (GTBC) successful México state.

Farley was joined by authorities governors, U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Ron Johnson and different officials astatine a celebratory lawsuit successful Mexico City. The institution — founded by Henry Ford successful Detroit, Michigan, successful 1903 — opened its archetypal mill successful Mexico successful Mexico City successful 1925.

Ford CEO Jim Farley greets Maru Campos, the politician of Chihuahua, wherever Ford has operated an motor works since 1983. (@MaruCampos_G/X)

According to the paper Milenio, Farley said that the program to grow the GTBC — located wrong the metropolitan country of Mexico City successful Naucalpan, México authorities — is portion of Ford’s efforts to make its capabilities successful Mexico. He didn’t specify however overmuch Ford would put to grow the center, which opened successful 2022.

Farley spoke successful highly affirmative presumption astir Ford’s beingness successful Mexico, wherever the automaker has conveyance assembly plants successful Sonora and México state, and motor accumulation plants successful Chihuahua and Guanajuato.

“Our factories successful Mexico person acceptable the standards for prime and productivity for Ford,” helium said.

“… We volition proceed competing powerfully present successful Mexico, making and selling vehicles that customers privation to thrust and which fulfill their needs,” Farley said.

“To our dealers and employees: you are the crushed we volition proceed investing successful Mexico,” helium said.

Ford sold conscionable nether 21,000 cars successful Mexico successful the archetypal 5 months of the year, according to nationalist statistic bureau INEGI. The institution exported much than 183,000 vehicles from Mexico successful the aforesaid period, astir 9 times the fig it sold here.

In September past year, Ford announced a US $273 cardinal concern for its works successful Irapuato, Guanajuato, wherever motors and transaxles for electrical vehicles are made.

The institution makes electrical vehicles astatine its works successful Cuautitlán, México state, wherever successful 2022 it unveiled its archetypal car made exclusively by women.

‘A monumental milestone’ 

In a property release, Ford México declared that it was celebrating “a monumental milestone” connected Monday: 100 years since it became the archetypal automotive assembler [in Mexico].”

“As the country’s archetypal automobile manufacturer, Ford de México has played a cardinal relation successful the improvement of the manufacture and has contributed importantly to the economical and societal cloth of Mexico,” the institution said.

“Today, Ford de México is made up of much than 14,000 employees and 113 Ford and Lincoln dealerships. Mexico is location to iconic vehicles specified arsenic the Mustang Mach-E, Ford Maverick, and Ford Bronco Sport,” it said.

In summation to making vehicles successful Mexico, Ford said it has played a “key role” successful the country’s car parts sector, “with facilities specified arsenic the works successful Tlalnepantla, [México state], helping the emblem ‘Hecho en México‘ summation planetary recognition.”

“Hecho en México” eran las palabras inscritas en el interior de las cajas de “autopartes originales de Ford” que recuerdo de mi adolescencia, cuando trabajaba con mi padre en el negocio acquainted de autopartes. Hoy celebramos los 100 años de @FordMX en México: un siglo… pic.twitter.com/KD2fR8cLSK

— Embajador Ronald Johnson (@USAmbMex) June 24, 2025

Johnson, the U.S. ambassador to Mexico, said connected the X societal media tract connected Monday that “‘Hecho en México’ were words inscribed wrong the boxes of ‘genuine Ford’ car parts that I retrieve from my teenage years moving with my begetter successful our family’s car parts business.”

“And contiguous we celebrated 100 years of @FordMX successful Mexico!” helium added.

“Building jobs and communities together. Thanks Ford! And blessed 100th Anniversary!”

The Global Technology and Business Center

In its property release, Ford said that its teams successful Mexico “are profoundly involved” successful the “design, development, testing, validation and manufacture” of the company’s vehicles.

“Mexico is besides a halfway for planetary services, providing acquisition to Ford’s planetary enactment successful captious areas specified arsenic accusation technology, merchandise development, finances, marketing, income and service, purchases, quality resources and Ford Credit,” the institution said.

“A wide illustration of Mexico’s endowment is the Global Technology and Business Center (GTBC), established successful 2022. As 1 of Ford’s 3 planetary centers, the GTBC successful Mexico is simply a powerhouse for merchandise development, services, and process engineering,” Ford said.

“… It houses the largest automotive engineering halfway successful Mexico and 1 of the largest successful Latin America, employing a squad of engineers who enactment crossed the full spectrum of automotive engineering,” the institution said.

Ford llegó a México hace 100 años. Hoy seguimos abriendo camino, a un gran país.#FordMexico100años pic.twitter.com/W3wEqA54E7

— Ford de México (@FordMX) June 23, 2025

Ford’s ‘Education successful Movement’ program 

Ford besides announced connected Monday that it would grow its “Education successful Movement” programme successful Mexico “through 3 antithetic actions that volition supply much opportunities for students.”

The institution said it volition allocate an further US $2 cardinal to its assistance inaugural for “outstanding students,” done which it supports young radical attending acquisition institutions from superior schoolhouse to university.

Ford besides said it would physique 2 caller superior schools: 1 successful Mexicali, Baja California, and different adjacent the GTBC successful México state. The institution has funded the operation of 212 superior schools successful Mexico implicit the past 59 years, but nary since 2017, according to the El Universal newspaper.

Ford said that its 3rd education-related “action” would beryllium restoring and maintaining its existing schools.

“Investing successful acquisition is the committedness of a amended aboriginal and contiguous it is imaginable acknowledgment to each idiosyncratic who buys a Ford oregon Lincoln vehicle,” Farley said.

“Together we volition proceed gathering a aboriginal successful which acquisition is accessible, successful which each kid has the accidental to imagination and execute their goals,” helium said.

With reports from Milenio and El Universal