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Under pressure on U.S. jobs, Ford tries new gambit with Trump

Executive Chairman of Ford Motor Co., Bill Ford Jr. addresses the public outside the Historic Ford Estate - Fairlane, once the home of his great-grandparents Henry and Clara Ford, during a celebration in honor of what would have been the 150th birthday of Henry Ford, founder of the Ford Motor Company, in Dearborn, Michigan

AMERICA: Ford Motor Co (F.N), one of Donald Trump's prime corporate targets on the campaign trail, offered the President-elect a chance to claim a victory late on Thursday by informing him it would not shift production of a Lincoln sport utility vehicle to Mexico from Kentucky.

Trump jumped at the chance, claiming in a tweet that he had "worked hard" with Ford Executive Chairman Bill Ford Jr. to keep the plant in Kentucky, even though Ford had never considered moving the whole factory south of the border.

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