The Blue Oval has celebrated its fair share of production milestones as of late, including building its one millionth vehicle at the joint-venture Changan Ford Hangzhou Plant in China earlier this year. In South America, the Ford Ranger also just celebrated its 30th anniversary after launching in 1995 and subsequently entering production at the Pacheco Assembly plant in Argentina one year later. Now, that same Ford Ranger plant has achieved another milestone – building 3.5 million total vehicles since it began operating back in 1961.
Over the past six-plus decades, the Pacheco Assembly plant has churned out a number of models including the Falcon (beginning in 1963), the F-100, Fairlane, Taunus, Sierra, Escort, Focus, Orion, and now, the Ford Ranger, which began rolling off assembly lines in 1996. However, Ranger production accounts for a whopping one-third of that 3.5 million unit total, underscoring just how popular the mid-size pickup has been in that part of the world – as well as the markets where it’s exported. In fact, 70 percent of the Ranger pickups built at Pacheco are in fact exported to other markets.
The Blue Oval has invested big in the Pacheco Assembly plant in an effort to ramp up production, which jumped by 70,000 units in 2025, or 15 percent more than 2024 and 28 percent higher than 2023. Last month, FoMoCo announced that it would be adding another $40 million to its total investments in Pacheco, which will help it increase output to 80,000 units annually, or around 30 percent more than 2024’s capacity.
This new infusion of money will help create 150 new direct jobs at the plant – in addition to 160 that have already been added in 2025 thus far – as well as add new tools and robots to the stamping and bodywork plant. In addition to producing the Ford Ranger itself, the Pacheco plant also builds the turbocharged 3.0L V6 Power Stroke diesel engine available in that particular pickup, along with the 2.0L single- and bi-turbo diesel powerplants.
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