Almost 90 ,000 Truck sales for GM in July

I feel all 3 trucks are good but the DW stories would scare me a little. fords always wandered and I have had some and driven others but not lately. GM trucks have driven so great for me it would be tough to change but WAIT I am not buying one so no test driving. I am old but not stupid.

chevman

I will not buy another GM truck.

After what is happening with my no trailer brakes problem because GM has ZERO parts to fix the problem and the fact that my dash cracked on my '09 Silverado and they refuse to do anything about it.

All over about GM fixing the dashes for a couple hundred bucks.
I contacted them and they said since my truck has high mileage, no deal.
Doesn't seem to matter that they offer the deal to the same age truck with lower mileage.

I test drove Silverado 3500 dually and Ram dually and have been going back and forth in my head between the two.
After these two episodes though, it will definitely be the Ram.

It must be nice not to have anything else to be concerned about other than something like this. WHO CARES!!

Sales numbers don't translate to a better truck no matter which brand. I will say that in full size trucks Ford still has a slight lead. That gap has shrunk a lot though and to be fair Ford counts all F series trucks which includes the F 450. If you count 1500-3500 trucks the numbers change. Probably not a lot, but they would change. I own GM yet would have no problem purchasing the other two brands. I just happen to like GM. Although the one I have right now hasn't been one of my better vehicles. My 1998 has 375,000 miles on it though.

Perrysburg Dodgeboy wrote:

FishOnOne wrote:
Wonder what Fred Diaz is up too?

Getting his resume together! :B

Don

Kind of what I'm thinking.

ROBERTSUNRUS wrote:

jtallon wrote:
Can we get a breakdown of sales by color, so we can also make fun of those who bought poor selling paint schemes?

I'm really irritated with the constant color bashing from the Silver Mafia, and the Black Trucks Matter crew. :W

:) Hi, I have three white vehicles, but I can't say anything more without being accused of being racist. :S

My current stable of colors:
1 Brown
2 Black
2 Gold
1 Red
2 Yellow

Test

Perrysburg Dodgeboy wrote:
With $10,000 in rebates on the GM twins they had better be out selling everyone! There was five billboards on I-75 in Tenn and Kentucky saying $10,000 off all Silverado and Sierra pickups. The disclaimer was " oldest in stock trucks"!

That will cut into the ole profit margin! Doesn't do you a lot of good selling at a loss does it tnutz?

Don

The Big 3 all offer big discounts, and you know that. GM is just marketing it different.

Also, truck sales across the board have the highest profit margins of any vehicles. So $10k is nothing more than a blip, especially when referring to the oldest inventory.

fla-gypsy wrote:
1. Ford F-Series as usual

I was looking at the sales numbers, in the chart for the top 11 trucks and I was struck by the fact that the only truck Ford offers is the F series. Yup, possibly the Ranger will come back, but if you want a Ford, the F series is the only game in town, right now.

GM has 4 out of the 11 top sellers, on this chart. GM offers choice, if you want a GM full size truck, you can choose from either a GMC or Chevy full size...or a GMC or Chevy if you want mid size.

When you add up the total sales in the chart of the four GM's, GM sells significantly more trucks than does Ford.

Reminds me of the situation we had in Canada back in the period 1947 to 1968. In that period, you could buy either a full size Ford or Mercury truck. If your preferences were GM, you could buy either a GMC or Chevy full size pickup. GM generally sold more pickups than Ford in that period. Ford had two truck models, GM had two.

In March, 1968 Ford cut the Mercury pickup. Within the next model year or so, in Canada, Ford pickup sales numbers were a bit higher than Chevy and Ford began to take the # 1 spot in truck sales in Canada. But then GM was still selling both GMC and Chevy pickups and generally more pickups per model year.

To me, it seems the same deal in modern times with the sales numbers between Ford and GM trucks. GM has more total sales numbers as they offer more choice (4 pickup models vs Ford F series)while Ford concentrates all their marbles on the F series and pick up the # 1 spot.

I think any accountant would look at total numbers sold, rather than who has the # 1 model. More sales, more money for the company coffers.

BTW, I'm not anti Ford. Back in 1968-69, my family's business had a new Mercury M 250 Pickup with the 300 inline six and three on the tree. Great general purpose, business truck, reliable and could more than carry it's weight, It was one of the last Mercury pickups ever built by FoMoCo of Canada.

FishOnOne wrote:
Wonder what Fred Diaz is up too?

Getting his resume together! :B

Don