• KCAP: Where the Transit gets built

    Ford Motor Co.'s Kansas City Assembly Plant -- known as "KCAP" -- is a 5.5 million square foot-plus facility sitting on 1,269 acres that builds both the new full-size Transit van as well as the F-150 pickup. Ford invested over $1.1 billion in recent years into KCAP to make it a major van and truck manufacturing site for the North American market. Today KCAP, staffed by some 4,878 workers, is one of Ford's largest plants worldwide.
    June 5, 2014

    Ford Motor Co.'s Kansas City Assembly Plant -- known as "KCAP" -- is a 5.5 million square foot-plus facility sitting on 1,269 acres that builds both the new full-size Transit van as well as the F-150 pickup. Ford invested over $1.1 billion in recent years into KCAP to make it a major van and truck manufacturing site for the North American market. Today KCAP, staffed by some 4,878 workers, is one of Ford's largest plants worldwide.

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    Sean Kilcarr

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    Sean Kilcarr is a former longtime FleetOwner senior editor who wrote for the publication from 2000 to 2018. He served as editor-in-chief from 2017 to 2018.

     

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