The Cougar will be built at Ford's joint-venture plant with Mazda in Flat Rock, Mich., south of Detroit.

The joint-venture plant also makes Corollas and a similar model, the Geo Prizm, for G.M.

Motorola built a joint-venture plant in Sendai, Japan, and quickly moved to transfer the technology to Britain and to Texas.

The companies also produce automobiles together at Diamond-Star Motors, a joint-venture plant in the United States.

In addition to the Kentucky plant, Toyota's Corolla cars are made at a joint-venture plant with the General Motors Corporation in Fremont, Calif.

General Motors will sell a version of the Matrix, to be produced at the companies' joint-venture plant in Fremont, Calif., called the Pontiac Vibe.

Ltd. in a joint-venture plant in Tianjin, China.

The Picanto is manufactured exclusively at a joint-venture plant with Donghee in Seosan, South Korea.

Two weeks later, the Heards received a call from Ford officials, inviting them to the joint-venture plant in Flat Rock, Mich., where Mustangs and Mazda sedans are assembled.

The Prizm is essentially a Toyota Corolla; both are built at a joint-venture plant in Fremont, Calif.