President-elect Donald Trump threatened to punish General Motors Co. for building a version of its fading compact car in Mexico, rekindling a months-old feud with the auto industry and earning a terse response from the company challenging his assertions. Trump said in a Twitter post that the largest U.S. automaker, which manufactures a Chevrolet Cruze hatchback model in San Luis Potosi, should build the car at home or face a hefty tariff. However, GM has sold only 4,900 such hatchbacks north of the border, said spokesman Tony Cervone. The almost 200,000 Cruze sedans that Americans have bought were all built in a plant in Lordstown, Ohio. The president-elect’s tweet was the latest in his persistent interventionist campaign against U.S. companies including Boeing Co., Lockheed Martin Corp. and United Technologies Corp. Trump, who campaigned on a promise to revive U.S. manufacturing, has singled out for criticism businesses whose cross-border job moves or prices have rankled him. He’s used the spotlight, and his ability to communicate directly from his mobile phone, to exact promises from corporate executives to reconsider. On Tuesday, Ford Motor Co. said it was canceling plans for a $1.6 billion plant in San Luis Potosi, expanding a Michigan factory and adding 700 jobs there. Earlier in the day, Trump trained his sights on GM, a mainstay of the auto industry that for decades provided the well-paying blue-collar jobs that he’s promised to restore. “General Motors is sending Mexican made model of Chevy Cruze to U.S. car dealers-tax free across border,” Trump tweeted. “Make in U.S.A. or pay big border tax!” The company, whose shares rose about 0.2 percent to $34.90 as of 9:31 a.m. in New York, replied with a brief statement: “General Motors manufactures the Chevrolet Cruze sedan in Lordstown, Ohio. All Chevrolet Cruze sedans sold in the U.S. are built in GM’s assembly plant in Lordstown, Ohio. GM builds the Chevrolet Cruze hatchback for global markets in Mexico, with a small number sold in the U.S.” Cervone declined to say whether the company would engage further with Trump. There is no tariff on cars built in Mexico and shipped over the border for sale in the U.S. Mexico’s government has courted car companies around the world by entering into 13 free-trade agreements with 44 countries that make up 60 percent of the global gross domestic product. The country has tariff-free access to 47 percent of the worldwide vehicle market, compared with 9 percent for the U.S. Mexican autoworkers earn less than $6 an hour on average, with a minimum wage of $4.50, according to the Center for Automotive Research. Their United Auto Workers union peers average $28 an hour. Nine global carmakers, including Toyota Motor Corp. and Nissan Motor Co., have announced more than $24 billion in Mexico investments since 2010. Volkswagen AG’s Audi, BMW AG and Daimler AG each build or plan to assemble luxury vehicles, engines or heavy trucks in the country. Trump’s focus on GM followed a troubled period for its small car, which it markets with its sporty appearance, fuel efficiency and ability to provide “fun in motion.” The Detroit-based company said in November it planned to cut a shift at its Cruze plant in Ohio and furlough 1,200 workers there due to weak demand. Glenn Johnson, president of United Auto Workers Local 1112, which represents GM employees in Lordstown, said in an interview at the time of the dismissals that he didn’t know whether his plant had the tooling to make the hatchback Cruze. That version sells in small numbers and probably wouldn’t rescue an entire shift, he said. Trump has made a point of pressuring large U.S. manufacturers into keeping production in the U.S. He criticized Ford during the presidential campaign for moving production of the Ford Focus compact and C-Max hybrid to Mexico. In November, he said on Twitter he talked with Chairman Bill Ford and got the automaker to commit to keeping production of the Lincoln MKC sport utility vehicle in Kentucky instead of Mexico. At the time, Trump indicated he’d saved the plant. In reality, the plant was not scheduled to close. Its employees assemble the Ford Escape SUV, a better-selling model. More than 5,000 employees work almost around the clock on three crews to meet demand for the two SUVs.