Those plants include the Chicago Assembly, Flat Rock, and Kansas City, home of the Explorer, Mustang, and F-150, respectively. The Ohio Assembly Plant in Avon Lake will only build Super Duty Chassis cabs and Medium Duty trucks through the week of May 17 and will be completely shut down the following week. Kansas City also builds the upcoming E-Transit electric van. It’ll operate just a single shift during the weeks of May 31 and June 7 to finish early builds.
Despite the Bronco plant’s downtime, Ford wants it to be made very clear initial sales won’t be impacted. It’s a very good possibility Ford made the strategic decision to divert those crucial chips from other assembly plants to the Bronco factory specifically to keep pumping them out at a consistent pace in order to meet that summer deadline.