Mahwah Assembly was a Ford Motor Company manufacturing plant in Mahwah, New Jersey , 30 miles (48 km) from New York City . It occupied over 172 acres.
6-642: The factory began operations in 1955, and was closed in 1980. It was one of three manufacturing facilities in New Jersey. It was built two years after the Edison Assembly plant opened and would eventually replace the Ford Motor Company Edgewater Assembly Plant which closed in 1955. Mahwah Assembly produced 6 million cars in the 25 years it operated before the last car rolled off the line on June 20, 1980. At
12-674: The Ford Mustang , Ford Ranger , and the Ford Pinto . When the plant opened, it manufactured the new Mercury branded and Lincoln vehicles. It was one of three Ford manufacturing facilities in New Jersey and was built two years before the Mahwah Assembly plant was opened in 1950. The plant produced 6.9 million vehicles in total; switching to compact car assembly in the 1960s, it built the Ford Falcon and Mustang and
18-528: The closure of the Mahwah plant in its opening line. Edison Assembly Edison Assembly , also known as Metuchen Assembly , was a Ford Motor Company manufacturing plant in Edison, New Jersey . It was located at 939 U.S. Route 1 and occupied over 100 acres when it was open. The factory began operations in 1948 and closed on February 27, 2004. Several popular Ford products were manufactured there, such as
24-530: The related Mercury Comet , and then to subcompact cars in 1972 with the Ford Pinto and Mercury Bobcat and later their Escort and Lynx successors. Production shifted to Ranger pickups in 1990, and produced 1.7 million Rangers along with the related Mazda B-Series. It was one of only three locations where Ford manufactured the first generation Mustang; the other sites were Dearborn Assembly and Milpitas Assembly in San Jose, California . As of 2019,
30-523: The time of its completion, it was the largest motor vehicle assembly plant in the United States. The Ford plant, along with other businesses such as American Brake Shoe and Foundry Company, helped contribute to the economic development of the town and its reputation for low home property taxes. The Mahwah town sports teams remain named Thunderbirds in honor of the Ford plant. A portion of the plant site
36-597: Was the U.S. headquarters of Sharp Corporation , but now is home to the US Headquarters of Jaguar/Land Rover and Amazing Savings building. Vehicles produced at the plant included the 1957 Ford , Edsel , Ford Fairmont , Ford Galaxie , Ford Granada , Ford LTD , Ford Thunderbird , Ford F Series , Lincoln Versailles , Mercury Colony Park , Mercury Meteor , Mercury Monarch and the Mercury Zephyr . Bruce Springsteen's 1982 song " Johnny 99 " references
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