Ford will soon start exporting made-in-India EcoSport SUV to the Argentinean market in South America. The EcoSport built at Ford’s Chennai plant is sold in multiple right hand drive as well as left hand drive markets globally like United States of America and Mexico to name a few.
- Made-in-India EcoSport will be sold in Argentina
- Will be equipped with a 1.5-liter petrol engine only
- EcoSport could get a major update later this year
Ford’s Chennai plant has been a major manufacturing hub for the brand not just for India but also for international markets that sell made-in-India Ford products. The made-in-India EcoSport is being exported globally since almost a decade now and as mentioned here, will be also be sold in Argentina soon. The EcoSport has been a popular product from Ford in the South American market. The company recently announced a major restructuring that included stopping manufacturing for the EcoSport and a few other products at its plants in Brazil that also supplied to multiple South American markets including Argentina.
Gauging the continuing demand, Ford has now decided to continue selling the EcoSport in Argentina and will replace now discontinued made-in-Brazil version with the one suppled by Ford India. Ford will import the 1.5-liter petrol powered EcoSport from India for the Argentinean market in left-hand drive layout.
Sources tell us that the EcoSport exported from India could be sold in more South American markets in future. As reported by us earlier, closure of Ford’s Brazilian manufacturing operations (part of major restructuring that also included cancelling the JV with Mahindra in India) for the EcoSport and the Figo among other models will gradually help Ford’s India operations as the brand will export more made-in-India products in some of these markets that still see demand, like Argentina being one of them currently. Ford currently builds the EcoSport in Thailand and Romania as well, along with India.
The EcoSport has been Ford’s most popular product since quite a long time. A replacement is long due and while there is no news on a full model change for the EcoSport anytime soon, a heavily updated model is on the cards and could launch sometime this year. Ford recently introduced the EcoSport SE in India that features a clean tailgate design, similar to the one sold in the United States.