Press Release

DBRS Rates Ford Motor Credit $2.00 bn Issuance of Snr Notes with Various Maturity Dates at BBB, Stb

Non-Bank Financial Institutions
November 02, 2017

DBRS, Inc. (DBRS) assigned a rating of BBB to the $1.0 billion 2.343% Notes due November 2020, the $750 million 3.815% Notes due November 2027 and the $250 million Floating Rate Notes due November 2020 (together the Notes) issued by Ford Motor Credit Company LLC (FMCC or the Company). The trend on all of the Notes is Stable.

The rating reflects the ownership of the Company and considers that the predominant share of FMCC’s business consists of financing Ford Motor Company (Ford or the Parent) vehicles and supporting Ford dealers.

Notes:
All figures are in U.S. dollars unless otherwise noted.

The principal methodologies are Global Methodology for Rating Finance Companies (October 2016) and Rating Companies in the Automotive Manufacturing Industry (October 2016), which can be found on our website under Methodologies.

The primary sources of information used for this rating include company documents and SNL Financial. DBRS considers the information available to it for the purposes of providing this rating was of satisfactory quality.

This rating is endorsed by DBRS Ratings Limited for use in the European Union.