In the SAME article. 

Ford is saving money by investing only $700 million instead of the $1.6 billion it originally planned.

After record years of U.S. car sales, there are signs of a slowdown. Small cars have been especially lousy sellers lately, which is why Ford is still moving production to Mexico. U.S. car workers make an average of $28 an hour, Swiecki says. In Mexico, workers average about $5.50 an hour.

Last edited by tennyson (1/03/2017 1:24 pm)

..... the real reason is pure business economics in a decision by Ford executives devised from an internal process that began far more than one year ago.

rongone nailed it, pure and simple.
 

Rongone wrote:

Here's some clarification on Ford's action to further dispel Trump's claim of shaming the company into moving out of Mexico:

Ford announced several things at once, leaving the impression that it’s capitulating to Trump and ditching its operations in Mexico, where assembly-line workers earn about one-fifth what their US counterparts do. But that’s not what Ford is doing. “We’ll continue to do the right thing for our business, and the right thing for our customers,” Ford CEO Mark Fields tells Yahoo Finance in the video above.

The right thing for a business is usually to minimize costs and maximize profits. The right thing for customers is to offer the best possible product at the lowest price. Mexico’s low labor costs allow Ford to do that, which is why the automaker is determined to shift the production of its small cars, which usually have the lowest profit margins, south of the border.

Here’s what did change: Ford is canceling the construction of a new $1.6 billion factory in Mexico, which would have been its third in the country, and moving production of the Focus to another factory in Mexico where output has fallen recently. “We simply didn’t need the new capacity,” Fields says. “We can use existing capacity.”

The new investment in Michigan is essentially unrelated to the Focus or the Mexico news. Ford will spend $700 million in Michigan on new efforts to develop self-driving and electric cars, which, it says, will help create 700 new jobs. In a clever PR move, Ford announced all of this at once, with the the news of 700 additional jobs in Michigan overshadowing the fact that it is still moving the Focus production to Mexico—just to a different location.

Like Trump, Ford shareholders seem to approve. The company’s shares rose roughly 3% on a day the broader markets were flat. Investors may like the fact that Ford is reducing capacity in Mexico, which means lower costs, while possibly getting on the next president’s better side. But Focus production is … still … moving … to … Mexico.

I love all of the so-called conservatives cheering Trump (i.e., the government) on this.

People need to remember, that publicly traded companies have to satisfy one group...their shareholders. Their first priority is to provide a return on investment.

The government has been and will continue to be a gnat that big corporations have to swat away from time to time. Donald Trump, who has never had to answer to shareholders and therefore doesn't have real life experience running a publicly traded company, may not fully understand this.