Sherminator98 Posted May 4 Share Posted May 4 https://fordauthority.com/2026/05/the-first-canadian-ford-super-duty-pickups-have-arrived/ 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twintornados Posted May 4 Share Posted May 4 Good news for Oakville!! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oac98 Posted May 5 Share Posted May 5 11 hours ago, Sherminator98 said: https://fordauthority.com/2026/05/the-first-canadian-ford-super-duty-pickups-have-arrived/ These units are first phase units, TT build phase. Only launch team and team leaders are at the plant along with MP and L and quality people. The majority of us are still off built will be back in a few months for full production. June 15th most people will get called back for three weeks of safety and in class training then possibly laid off again til whenever were needed. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpd80 Posted May 5 Share Posted May 5 Tool Tryouts, excellent news… 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sherminator98 Posted May 5 Author Share Posted May 5 9 hours ago, Oac98 said: These units are first phase units, TT build phase. Only launch team and team leaders are at the plant along with MP and L and quality people. The majority of us are still off built will be back in a few months for full production. June 15th most people will get called back for three weeks of safety and in class training then possibly laid off again til whenever were needed. Well at least you can see the light at the end of the tunnel and its not the 3 row Bullet train EV 😛 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oac98 Posted May 5 Share Posted May 5 Lol, thank God it wasn’t the bullet train three row after all. Sadly it would’ve failed miserably and we would’ve been in an even worse predicament. In the near term at least this plan looks like a better idea. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbone Posted May 5 Share Posted May 5 11 hours ago, Oac98 said: These units are first phase units, TT build phase. Only launch team and team leaders are at the plant along with MP and L and quality people. The majority of us are still off built will be back in a few months for full production. June 15th most people will get called back for three weeks of safety and in class training then possibly laid off again til whenever were needed. I saw this headline elsewhere and was wondering if you got called back early. Good news nonetheless. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Rosadini Posted May 5 Share Posted May 5 9 hours ago, jpd80 said: Tool Tryouts, excellent news… thx for education😎 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oac98 Posted Tuesday at 06:06 PM Share Posted Tuesday at 06:06 PM 3 hours ago, tbone said: I saw this headline elsewhere and was wondering if you got called back early. Good news nonetheless. Soon, most of the plant will be back by end of June I still don’t know when actual job 1 is. The stamping plant won’t be fully ready til November. So BOC and Buffalo will do our stamping til then. One of our presses is actual at BOC right now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpd80 Posted Tuesday at 07:25 PM Share Posted Tuesday at 07:25 PM (edited) 1 hour ago, Oac98 said: Soon, most of the plant will be back by end of June I still don’t know when actual job 1 is. The stamping plant won’t be fully ready til November. So BOC and Buffalo will do our stamping til then. One of our presses is actual at BOC right now. Which is why I’m praying that Ford adds F150 to Oakville, sending stampings and frames would save a ton of headaches in the cross border politics, just build where you sell and put a Canadian sticker on it. All the best to you and your co-workers BYD has just started a major campaign in Australia, Asian brands except Toyota don’t know what is hitting them, April sales is absolute carnage. Edited Tuesday at 07:28 PM by jpd80 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oac98 Posted Tuesday at 07:35 PM Share Posted Tuesday at 07:35 PM 8 minutes ago, jpd80 said: Which is why I’m praying that Ford adds F150 to Oakville, sending stampings and frames would save a ton of headaches in the cross border politics, just build where you sell and put a Canadian sticker on it. All the best to you and your co-workers BYD has just started a major campaign in Australia, Asian brands except Toyota don’t know what is hitting them, April sales is absolute carnage. I agree with you as 140000 F series sold in Canada last year. Your idea really sounds like the most logical way to do it. Maybe that’s their long term plan but who knows anyways. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExplorerDude Posted Tuesday at 08:35 PM Share Posted Tuesday at 08:35 PM 59 minutes ago, Oac98 said: I agree with you as 140000 F series sold in Canada last year. Your idea really sounds like the most logical way to do it. Maybe that’s their long term plan but who knows anyways. 😉 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oac98 Posted Wednesday at 11:11 AM Share Posted Wednesday at 11:11 AM 15 hours ago, jpd80 said: Which is why I’m praying that Ford adds F150 to Oakville, sending stampings and frames would save a ton of headaches in the cross border politics, just build where you sell and put a Canadian sticker on it. All the best to you and your co-workers BYD has just started a major campaign in Australia, Asian brands except Toyota don’t know what is hitting them, April sales is absolute carnage. And thanks for the well wishes. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rmc523 Posted 3 hours ago Share Posted 3 hours ago Oakville Ford Super Duty Retooling Cost Balloons To $5 Billion At the time, Ford said that retooling the Oakville plant for this purpose would cost it around $4.1 billion CAD (around $3 billion USD), though $464.5 million of those funds will come from an enlarged government grant. However, it now seems like that process is a proving to be quite a bit more costly than planned. According to Automotive News, Ford now expects to spend roughly $5 billion CAD (nearly $3.7 billion USD) to finish Oakville's transformation, ahead of a planned production start later this year. Originally, a new stamping plant and integrated assembly site were expected to cost around $2.3 billion USD ($3.1 billion CAD) to complete, with the rest slated to go toward efforts to ramp up Super Duty production, in general. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sherminator98 Posted 58 minutes ago Author Share Posted 58 minutes ago 2 hours ago, rmc523 said: Oakville Ford Super Duty Retooling Cost Balloons To $5 Billion At the time, Ford said that retooling the Oakville plant for this purpose would cost it around $4.1 billion CAD (around $3 billion USD), though $464.5 million of those funds will come from an enlarged government grant. However, it now seems like that process is a proving to be quite a bit more costly than planned. According to Automotive News, Ford now expects to spend roughly $5 billion CAD (nearly $3.7 billion USD) to finish Oakville's transformation, ahead of a planned production start later this year. Originally, a new stamping plant and integrated assembly site were expected to cost around $2.3 billion USD ($3.1 billion CAD) to complete, with the rest slated to go toward efforts to ramp up Super Duty production, in general. Wow that article is over the place with the numbers-it quotes the CAD on the headline, then switches to USD when the exchange rate is .73 CAD to 1 USD. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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