Almost 90 ,000 Truck sales for GM in July

travelnutz wrote:
The July numbers alone say it all as displayed by the sales as to which manufacturer's pickup trucks are most wanted and are actually purchased:

GM 89,271

Ford 65,657

Ram 39,827

Toyota 27,054

Nissan 8,387

Honda 3,518

Looks like Ram should be getting very nervous because Toyota is so close in sales and may drop Ram to 4th soon. The sales leader, GM, sold 2.24 pickups to every Ram reported sold. Also, GM announced that they are going increase their production capability of pickups as the demand has outstripped their present manufacturing supply ability which is leaving so many dealers without any trucks to even sell.

Of note! Who knows how many Fiat Rams were actually sold because Ram has been knowingly inflating their actual sales numbers, been double counting, and are presently under federal investigation and has the documentation for it's knowingly having been inflating their actual sales numbers for years on end now? Toyota may be even closer to Ram in actual numbers of pickups sold already!

I do know that Ford has sold 4 less trucks and Ram has sold 4 more trucks than they would have with us. We use to be nothing but Ford for our heavy crew trucks but the last 4 have been Ram. I would like to see the number of trucks that are ordered for major fleets compared to just normal purchases. The fleets stay with Ford mostly because they already have the orders set up and it is easier to just keep it that way. I know that's the way it is around here anyway. It's more a political thing than anything. Play a little golf with the fleet manager and he'll buy from you.