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2019 Ford Ranger production starts this week outside Detroit

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Production on the

2019 Ford Ranger

started this week at the Michigan Assembly Plant outside of Detroit and just miles down the road from

Ford

World Headquarters in Dearborn. To celebrate the start of production, Ford hosted a group of media along with more than 3,000 employees to take a ride around a very small off-road course in the new truck. While we didn’t get to take the wheel, this was our first chance to get inside a moving production model. You can check out some of the videos above.

The

Ranger

shifts the plant’s production back to trucks after producing models like the Focus and C-Max for the past few years, a retooling that cost about $850 million. A lot, but that’s still less than it would cost to build and import the Ranger from another country.

The facility originally built

Mercurys

in the late 1950s. Over the years, Michigan Assembly Plant, or Michigan Truck Plant as it was known for decades, produced models like the

Ford F-Series

, Ford Bronco,

Ford Expedition

and

Lincoln Navigator

. Some of the plant’s greatest hits can be seen in the gallery below, but it will soon gain another entry as Michigan Assembly Plant will eventually begin production of the new Ranger-based Ford Bronco. Original Bronco production started in 1966 and lasted for 30 years before the SUV was killed off in the late 1990s to make room for

Expedition

and

Navigator

production.

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