Indianapolis Navistar plant's future up in air

The IBJ

The future of the Indianapolis Navistar plant is uncertain after the company agreed Tuesday to stop producing diesel engines for Ford Motor Co. at the end of the year.

Navistar's Brookville Road plant produces engines used in Ford's F-Series pickups. It employs about 600 workers.
The decision to stop manufacturing the motors is part of a settlement reached in a legal dispute between the two companies.

Ford claimed Illinois-based Navistar International Corp. wasn't adequately sharing warranty costs for the engines and raised prices "without adequate explanation or support for its actions."

A Navistar spokesman declined to address speculation that the plant might close, other than to say the company has not made a decision about its future.

The plant has been making diesel engines for Ford pickups since the early 1980s.