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23/07/2008 05:02. According to The New York Times , Ford will be converting three of its North American plants from trucks to cars, in part to produce European designs for sale in the US market. Their sources claim six unnamed Euro models will make the transoceanic leap, and Mercury, which was assumed dead by means of product starvation, will receive the bulk of this new small car influx.

The official announcement is scheduled to occur on Thursday, which leaves plenty of time for all of the talking heads to speculate away. We'll look for the full program later this week.

Jalopnik Snap Judgement: If this is true, and the NYT 's Ford sources are better than those from Edmunds Inside Line (A journalistic smackdown, if you will,... // Jalopnik