The plan marks the troubled automaker’s most ambitious attempt yet to rebuild its battered business in the US, where it has lost market share in part due to an ageing product lineup.

It’s also the latest push by a major US carmaker to announce splashy domestic investments under pressure from President Donald Trump, who has wielded steep tariffs as a tool to curtail imports and bolster domestic manufacturing and jobs. In June, General Motors Co. announced a $4 billion investment in the US to boost production of gas-powered vehicles and reduce production in Mexico.

“We want to grow in the US with American-built products,” Chief Executive Officer Antonio Filosa said in a phone interview. “We share the president’s goal to bring back jobs in the United States, as we are doing, as we will do.”

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