Ford¹ is canceling controversial plans to build the Focus small car in Mexico, saving $1 billion by ending North American production entirely² and importing the model mostly from China after next year.

尽管极具争议，福特汽车仍将取消原定计划，不在墨西哥建立福克斯小型车工厂。福特汽车通过终止北美的车辆生产，并于2019年开始从中国大量进口汽车模型省下了十亿美元。

The U.S. automaker will start making the next-generation Focus in China from the second half of 2019, a year after output ends at one of its plants in Michigan. Ford will trim about $500 million in costs by shifting production to China, adding to the $500 million already saved from canceling construction of a small-car factory in Mexico earlier this year.

2018年福特将停止其密歇根工厂的运作，从2019年下半年开始，在中国生产新一代福克斯汽车。将生产工厂转移至中国将为福特减少五亿美元的成本，除此之外，今年年初，停建墨西哥小型车工厂也为福特省下了五亿美元。

“We’ve done a lot of research and consumers care a lot more about the quality and the value than they do about the sourcing location,” Joe Hinrichs, Ford’s president of global operations, said in a conference call with reporters Tuesday. “iPhones are produced in China, for example, and people don’t really talk about it.”

福特全球运营总裁韩瑞麒(Joe Hinrichs)在本周二的会议上告诉记者：“我们做过很多调查，比起汽车的源产地，消费者更在意车的质量和价格。比如Iphone也是在中国生产的，但是没人会就此喋喋不休。”

After importing initial production of the new Focus cars from China, Ford said it will later ship variants³ of the model from Europe. The Michigan Assembly Plant now making the Focus will be retooled⁴ to produce the Ranger⁵ midsize pickup⁶ in late 2018 and the Bronco midsize SUV in 2020.

福特汽车已经从中国进口了首批全新生产的福克斯汽车，并表示随后将从欧洲运入更多不同型号。正在生产福克斯的密歇根流水工厂将重组，于2018年晚些时候开始生产Ranger中型皮卡，2020年投入生产Bronco中型SUV。

“China gets a lot of attention, we’ll see how this plays out,” Hinrichs said in response to a question about possible criticism of the move from Trump⁷. “But we believe this is a much better plan for our business globally. And it frees up from the original plan about $1 billion of capital that we can reinvest in the business, including exciting things that we’re working on in autonomy and electrification⁸, and a lot of that work is done right here in the U.S.”

特朗普可能会对福特汽车转移工厂的举动颇有微辞，对此疑虑，韩瑞麒也做出了回应：“世界都在关注中国，我们也将试试这样的转移是否有用。但是值得确信的是，转移工厂对福特汽车的全球运营有益无害。取消原计划，不在墨西哥建厂为我们省下了十亿美元，我们可以把这笔钱投资在自主、电气化这样很酷的领域，或者投资很多能在美国完成的事情。”