Six trucks in April, thirty-seven in May — Ford’s Canadian gamble is suddenly paying off
Oakville came back from the dead, and the numbers are climbing already. Six pickups in April. Thirty-seven in May. Ford’s third Super Duty plant is no longer a plan on paper.
The assembly line in Oakville, Canada has roared back to life — and it’s ramping up noticeably fast. According to Ford’s May 2026 report, the plant turned out 37 Super Duty pickups in a single month. That comes on top of six pre-production units in April. Forty-three trucks in two months, and the pace is clearly building.
Oakville used to crank out the Ford Edge and Lincoln Nautilus. Ford originally wanted to replace both with a pair of new three-row electric SUVs — but EV demand cooled, and the strategy collapsed. The plant was quickly retooled for the Super Duty instead. Oakville is now the third facility in the world building the model, joining the Kentucky and Ohio plants.
Ford, meanwhile, still hasn’t officially confirmed when full customer production will start in Oakville. But the ambitions are loud. The site is supposed to hit an annual capacity of 100,000 trucks. And a chunk of the Canadian-built pickups won’t just stay home — they’ll head south to the United States too.
For now, the line is rolling out gasoline and diesel Super Duty trucks. Later, with the next generation of the model, the plant is meant to become “fully flexible” — ready to build vehicles with any kind of powertrain, including electrified ones. It’s a telling scenario. Ford is pivoting an entire factory from one strategy to another in a matter of months — and this looks like the new normal for the auto industry.