Ford's 'Baby Bronco' to use Focus Active's FWD/AWD platform in Olive Branch, MS

Ford's chief of product development and purchasing, Hau Thai-Tang, spoke to investor representatives recently at the 2018 J.P. Morgan Auto Conference in New York. Hau told the audience that Ford is working to "evolve" the One Ford plan devised by ex-CEO Alan Mulally more than a decade ago. The original One Ford blueprint cut the number of Ford's global architectures from 30 to nine. Now the automaker wants to cut that from nine down to five modular architectures. One of those platforms will serve the imminent Focus Active, and that crossover will share its Focus underpinnings with the crossover being called the "Baby Bronco."