Ford is celebrating the milestone of one million Mustangs being produced at Ford’s Flat Rock Assembly Plant since production moved there in 2004, which also happens to be 49 years to the day after the Mustang’s 1964 debut in New York.
Ford is celebrating the milestone of one million Mustangs being produced at Ford’s Flat Rock Assembly Plant since production moved there in 2004, which also happens to be 49 years to the day after the Mustang’s 1964 debut in New York. Ford has built Mustangs near its home base in Dearborn, Mich. for 49 years. The car was built at Ford’s famous Rouge factory, just a few minutes from company headquarters, for four decades before moving a few miles south to Flat Rock in 2004.
“Mustang is one of the most beloved nameplates in the industry, with fans around the world and throughout Ford Motor Company,” said Nair. “The team here at Flat Rock Assembly has built an outstanding reputation for quality while producing one million Mustangs over the last nine years, and we expect that to continue for many years to come.”
Introduced in April 1964, Mustang proved to be far more popular than anyone expected, prompting Ford to add production capacity outside Michigan. By early 1965 plants in Metuchen, N.J. and San Jose, Calif. were also building Mustang. Less than two years later, on Wednesday, March 2, 1966, the one-millionth Mustang rolled off the line in Dearborn. To date, Ford has produced and sold more than 8.5 million Mustangs.
