Ford’s Romeo plant builds 10,000,000th engine

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As of this morning, Ford's Romeo engine plant has officially produced its 10 millionth engine. That's a whole lotta V8s. Even more impressive, it only started making motors back in 1990 when it was converted from a tractor plant. Romeo now builds engines for the Ford F-150, Mustang, Shelby GT500, Explorer, E-Series van, Crown Victoria, and the Mercury Grand Marquis at a rate of 140 per hour. That's one every 26 seconds! The combined output of those engines for 2008 alone was 88,900,000 horsepower!

While the first engine produced in Romeo was a lowly 2-valve 4.6L V8, the ceremonial 10 millionth engine was a 4.6L 3-valve V8, so things have changed quite a bit. We kid, but as the engine maker for two iconic Ford vehicles, Romeo is a really important part of the Ford manufacturing scene. It employd around 1,000 workers on two lines, one making the 4.6L V8 and the other hand assembling the supercharged 5.4L V8 for the GT500. The 10 millionth engine will fittingly be installed in a 2010 Mustang GT after it's shipped to AutoAlliance International in Flat Rock, MI.

[Source: Ford]

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