Ford Worldwide Production By Nation : 2012

VW is number three but it seems the company has gone coy on production data, like German car makers generally of late. In a world of ever greater transparency, it doesn't make sense. Still, on to number four, Ford to see how they went in 2012 for car/LCVs.

USA increased its share of the company car making, a trend since 2009 when it was at 32%. Most of the vehicles made by Ford USA are pick up trucks. If only counting passenger cars, Ford would be a few places down on world rankings. Ford's US production was up 10% - the total company increase was 2%.

Other nations with increased share of Ford's manufacturing were China (+26%), Thailand (+39%) and Romania (+400%). Notable decreases were in Canada (-20%), Spain (-35%) and Belgium (-29%). Total world market share dropped slightly from 7.2 to 6.9%.

11	12		2011	Shr	2012	Shr
1	1	USA	1,912,098	35.3%	2,106,308	38.2%
2	2	Germany	729,946	13.5%	694,004	12.6%
4	3	China	375,854	6.9%	472,591	8.6%
3	4	Mexico	455,480	8.4%	444,425	8.1%
7	5	Brazil	286,357	5.3%	271,207	4.9%
9	6	Thailand	193,112	3.6%	268,676	4.9%
6	7	Turkey	286,611	5.3%	264,790	4.8%
5	8	Canada	320,396	5.9%	255,924	4.6%
8	9	Spain	229,919	4.2%	149,745	2.7%
10	10	Belgium	178,380	3.3%	126,791	2.3%
11	11	India	119,174	2.2%	116,906	2.1%
13	12	Russia	98,807	1.8%	107,724	2.0%
12	13	Argentina	103,883	1.9%	89,072	1.6%
14	14	Australia	37,794	0.7%	37,702	0.7%
15	15	Taiwan	37,467	0.7%	31,199	0.6%
18	16	Romania	7,547	0.1%	30,591	0.6%
16	17	UK	28,170	0.5%	28,031	0.5%
17	18	Venezuela	21,352	0.4%	21,875	0.4%
		Total	5,422,347	7.2%	5,517,561	6.9%

Data source: OICA

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