Fastest selling pickups
Notice a trend here? All but one of the top sellers are crew cabs, all but one of the slowest are reg and extended cabs. Fastest-Selling Pickups Ram 1500 Crew Cab, 12 days supply Chevrolet C...
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Ron3rd wrote:wintersun wrote:
Why when actual unit sales are available would you use days supply instead? If they taught critical thinking while you were in school you must have missed those days.
Days supply is indicative of how good a job the production scheduling people are doing in forecasting demand. The extended cab days of supply is odd in part as this truck has been termed by GM a "double cab" for the past two years.
The F-150 pickup outsells all other 1/2 ton pickups combined in actual units sold. The Ram 2500/3500 trucks outsell Ford and GM/Chevy combined, even with the F-450 pickup version thrown in to boost up Ford's sales numbers (which is why Ford makes two very different F-450 trucks).
It takes a fool to follow the mob mentality and think that because more people buy something that it is better. With this logic McDonald's must make the best hamburgers and Starbuck's must have the best coffee.
...and for about five bucks you can buy a book on Amazon called "How to Lie with Statistics". Written in the 50's by an expert on statistics, humorous, and still very relevant.
I did some consulting for a company that had phenomenal inventory turnover. But it turns out they were losing money on each item. So the only thing they were doing was hastening their demise.
