In this video from Shmee 150, we get a tour of one of America’s largest and most unique factories: Ford’s Flat Rock Assembly Plant in the beating heart of the Motor City. Apart from its sheer immensity, FRAP’s most notable feature is its on-site sheetmetal stamping facility. Normally, automobiles are produced in bits and pieces all over, and assembled in a central location. Not here. At FRAP, Mustangs and Fusions ("Mondeos" overseas) come in as massive rolls of sheet steel, and roll out as running automobiles. Massive presses and robots do the majority of work up till final assembly. That’s where you’ll find the rest of FRAP’s 1,700 or so employees, delicately going through the process of putting all those parts together into a flawless whole. That much is in the video — but it’s the history of the factory itself and the two cars it produces that makes the greater statement.
Read on past the jump.
Ford Mustang Factory Tour: Video originally appeared on topspeed.com on Thursday, 19 February 2015 10:00 EST.
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