mookie
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At the 2009 Nashville Auto Show, Ford unveiled the Sport Trac America production model. It is a car-based crossover SUT that will improve efficiency versus the once popular body-on-frame Explorer SUT. According to union officials at Ford's Chicago plant, the next Explorer will be produced at the Torrence Avenue assembly plant in 2011. Union officials claim that Ford promised the Sport Trac to Chicago as part of the recently reworked UAW contract.
The next Sport Trac will be built on the outgoing Taurus X platform, which also underpins the Ford Flex, Taurus and the Lincoln MKS and MKT. The Flex, MKS and MKT are all built at Ford's Oakville, Ontario plant, while the pending cancellation of the Taurus X and Mercury Sable left the recently overhauled Chicago plant twisting in the wind. Ford has officially confirmed that it will build the Sport Trac at Chicago.
Concept photoshop credit: Ed C. SFCEd
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