Ford pickup sales down again others mostly up.
Ford pickup sales were down both year over year and month over month. The GM twins were both up in the single didgits. The Ram up 22% year over year 33% over last month. Pickup sales Nov 1
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FishOnOne wrote:DirtyOil wrote:
When I decided to purchase Ram, I was driving to a meeting when I was stopped at a red light, the turned green and the Ford said "nope.. not moving". I walked across the street to the dealer on the corner which happened to be a Dodge dealership. I was hoping someone from the service department could help me rescue my Ford from the intersection. While they had it in the shop, I killed the time looking. A salesman came up to me asked if he could help me with anything. I said "see that ugly red thing on the hoist?" "I'm looking for a new truck". I ended up buying one of the better looking and most reliable trucks they had, they bought my Ford(suckers). I bought a new at the time Dodge Ram CTD 3500 4x4. Have bought 3 trucks from that same dealer 2005 3500, 2012 Ram 1500 for the wife and now a 2013 Ram 3500. Would I buy another Ford... not on yer life! My brother has a 2012 F350 and I can honestly say .."he doesn't like it".. I told him he wouldn't! :W
That's interesting... 3 years ago I stopped on two different occasions to help out some fellow RV'rs who's RAM cummins powered (Or lack of power in these two cases) and one RAM pulling a gooseneck that barely made into the Bass Pro parking lot that lost a head gasket. Seen another RAM recently on I10 but already had a wrecker on the scene.
The only Fords I've seen in the ditch have been service and construction trucks working hard!
So when someone " states they went from Ram to Ford, you post "Wow", but when someone has the opposite story, you need to to add even more context to continue to flame Ram trucks...wouldn't have expected anything less from you.
I"ve had this truck now since May 9th. 2013, I have 24,000 trouble free miles on it. I've towed my 16,200# 5er all through the mountains of SC, NC, TN, VA and WVa, including the one stretch Ford ran in WVa on I64 , the New River Gorge section...funny, I topped that mountain fairly easily at 60 mph, (last 3 miles being 7%, rest was 6%), I've towed on it more times than I can count...truck has never over-heated, never missed a beat, didn't break down, just towed that 5er up the side of that mountain "easy-peasy"....course I can only compare it to the winner of all these test, the GM/Chevy D/A, (of which I owned 3, if I were to ever leave Ram, I'd go back to the Chevy D/A).
Now it would be a "major biggey" if someone else out sold Ford, but...I don't expect anything to change, Ford 1st, the twins second and Ram 3rd.., in test, GM/Chevy 1st, Ford 2nd to 3rd and Ram 2nd. to 3rd, (depending on who does the test)....rankings or sales don't make much difference to me or I'd own a Ford or a Chevy, but I don't...I never owned a Dodge/Ram truck until 2010, and hoped I didn't regret it, and I didn't, so now I have the 2013 and it's one heck of a truck...3rd place in test? last in sales? Not driven by those numbers to purchase what I purchase....
In all my travels towing in the states that I mentioned above, on occasion I've seen some trucks over heated on the side of steep long mountainous roads, but haven't seen that in a long while....no Fords, no GM/Chevy's and no Ram's.....
