DBRS Rates Ford Motor Credit $2.25 bln of Senior Notes with Various Maturity Dates at BBB, Stable

DBRS, Inc. (DBRS) assigned a rating of BBB to the $1.15 billion 3.813% Fixed Rate Notes due October 12, 2021, the $600 million 4.687% Fixed Rate Notes due June 9, 2025, and the $500 million Floating Rate Notes due October 12, 2021 issued by Ford Motor Credit Company LLC (FMCC or the Company). The trend on 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.

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

The applicable methodologies are Rating Companies in the Automotive Manufacturing and Supplier Industries (October 2017), and the Global Methodology for Rating Finance Companies (November 2017) which can be found on our website under Methodologies.

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

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.

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