Ford pickup sales down again others mostly up.

looks like of the big three, the top 23% drive the best. and the bottom 37% go... "ooooh shiny" :B

buddyIam wrote:
Bedlam,

What Cab to axle did you get? How is the ride. The overall length of my trailer is much less than your. Did you have any problems adjusting to the trailer camper combination when you first went to that type of set up.

With that type of set up I imagine It's not hard to get to 26,000 lbs. I understand that RV's aren't limited to 26,000 lbs for class c licence. Have you found that to be true?

I have the crew cab with 60" CA chassis. It is a foot longer than a crew cab long bed but turns sharper due to the wide front axle. It is tagged at 19,000 lbs GVWR and 26,000 lbs GCWR. If it had the 4.88 gearing, the ratings would be higher. I chose the 4.44 ratio for better highway cruising.

I bought the truck less two weeks ago and this week will be our trial run with the truck camper. The bed, gooseneck and receiver add over 1000 lbs to the rear so it has not been a bad ride empty. With 4000 lbs on the rear, I get 2" of sag and overloads still are not touching. Once filled with water and hitched to my trailer, the overloads should touch the pads.

WA does not have license classification for heavy weight personal use but does charge for tonnage wear on roads.

It's cuz Ford is the only one of the big 3 still milking a 15 year old chassis. Maybe that and some finally got smart that their diesels were bottom of the heap for 8 years straight. The 6.7 is finally a tight engine. Cluttered and complicated but good overall power plant unless you're running them in arctic conditions. They re gen more than the other 2.

Bedlam,

What Cab to axle did you get? How is the ride. The overall length of my trailer is much less than your. Did you have any problems adjusting to the trailer camper combination when you first went to that type of set up.

With that type of set up I imagine It's not hard to get to 26,000 lbs. I understand that RV's aren't limited to 26,000 lbs for class c licence. Have you found that to be true?

I just bought a Ram 5500 over the Ford F550. The pricing wasn't close enough when I compared evenly configured trucks. Had Ford been more competitive, I would have had another Ford since it edged out the Ram in my subjective preferences.

RAM has certainly had a resurgence in the truck market thanks to a vastly improved truck. However, Ford's slack in sales is probably due to manufacturing capacity. About 1/3rd of their F-150 capacity is gone right now as Dearborn is being retrofitted. They will lose 2/3rds capacity when they retrofit KTP. So expect down percentages for the time being. However, the real telling story will be 3 to 6 months after KTP's retrofit when they're back to producing like normal.

However, if I were GM, I'd be concerned that my all new line-up isn't averaging any gains similar to RAM. Don't remember where I read it, but a majority of RAM's sales have been conquest sales. That's why they've increased so much market. Seems like GM's sales are more or less keeping with its customer base. With sales barely at double digit growth, I would be trying to figure out how to be more inventive and get more people to look at my product.

I suppose sales figures are important to "jump on the bandwagon" buyers. Personally I'd buy a vehicle that only moves 2,000/year if I think it meets my needs better than anything else.

I used to drive nothing but Dodges until I started figuring my expenses and down time. Now I'm driving a Ford maybe not a pu it's still a Ford. But my wife still drives the Dodge too much of a hard headed Dutchman to change even when the were costing us a fortune too keep running. Drove Dodges for 50 yrs. before I got smart.

8iron wrote:
This may be a contributing factor?

Clicky

Please don't confuse Cummins98 with facts... He probably won't sleep tonight. :R