First 6 months of 2014 sales numbers
LINK Pretty easy to understand graphic representations.
Forum Discussion
Bamaman1 wrote:
Ford's sales numbers will be down this year, as they're losing 13 weeks minimum production retooling for the new aluminum 1/2 ton. After that factory is up and working, they'll be taking their second light truck factory down for retooling.
Say what? Funny thing I have not seen one Ford dealership without any trucks on their lots.
Ford's not just engineering a truck. They're inventing machinery and tooling to build the truck at the same time. No mass market aluminum vehicle has ever been built.
Aluminum has been around a long time and has been stamped, cast both low pressure and high, extruded and cold forming for a long time right? New stamping dies which they would have been doing if the body panels changed at all. Car companies have been doing change overs for a long time and are very good at it.
If you want to talk numbers, the best production and sales numbers are out of Automotive News.
As far as I know, Ford still sells more diesel pickups than Ram and GM combined. It's been that way for many, many years. It helps to have a fine dealer base (sorry RAM) and a strong base of commercial customers.
