Riding on exports, Ford emerges as third largest car maker in India

Ford India produced a record 2,52,959 vehicles in FY17, helped by a 43% surge in export volumes

American car maker Ford produced more cars than Mahindra & Mahindra and Tata Motors in 2016-17 to emerge as the third biggest car maker in the country.
 
Ford India produced 252,959 vehicles in 2016-17, helped by a 43 per cent surge in export volumes. In comparison, M&M produced 242,721 passenger vehicles and Tata Motors 169,599 passenger vehicles.
 
In 2015-16, Ford had ranked fifth in production after Maruti Suzuki, Hyundai, M&M and Honda Cars.
 
Ford exported more than 62 per cent of its vehicles and accounted for 22 per cent of the 758,830 cars exported by India in