November pick up truck sales figures

ktmrfs wrote:

NC Hauler wrote:

spoon059 wrote:

NC Hauler wrote:
I always preferred the Chevy over the GMC...comparing apples to apples, only some badging difference and maybe a little more bling for the GMC; the GMC would have cost me more money than the Chevy...at least that was my buying experience in areas where I purchased my Chevy trucks, (WV, TN and NC), from 1975 through 2010..

Is that the difference? I've never really paid too close attention, but I have always thought the GMC's were a little nicer. I thought the GMC line was more of a "work truck" than a "pretty truck". Weird. I will still never understand why they are two separate entities...

Agree with you100%. They use to come off the same assembly lines, but cosmetics were the only difference, everything else is the same. I think they ought to 1 truck and call it a GMC Chevy, or something to that effect.

GMC came about when GM dealers other than Chevy wanted to sell trucks, vans and suburbans. (Olds, Caddy, buick, Pontiac). So along came GMC with the same basic vehicle with different names.

Same thing happened in the Canadian market...both with GM and with Ford.

In Canada, from the '40's up to March,1968 when Mercury truck production ended, there were two full truck lines made by the FoMoCo. Ford and Mercury. The Merc truck was regarded as a bit higher end by many, although other than nameplate, trim differences, etc., I don't think there was much difference, between Ford and Mercury trucks.

In our family we had one of the last of the Mercury pickups. It was a 3/4 ton, 1968 Mercury M 250. It had the 'Mercury' 300 cubic inch inline six and the three on the tree manual transmission.

I drove many a Ford pickup/van with the 300 inch Ford inline six, but I have to say the Mercury six was a more refined engine...silky smooth in fact, compared to the workhorse Ford 300 six. :h :B

I also note, in Canada, that Ford pickups only started to outsell Chevy pickups once the Mercury pickup line was dropped.

However generally GM pickups when both Chevy and GMC are counted together are competitive, or more than competitive in total Canadian market numbers sold. Yep, to this day both GMC and Chevy trucks are still available in Canada.

Me, I don't care. I drive a Buick sedan.