Bob Hegbloom: RAM in #2 spot in the HD truck market

[ib516]

Straight from the source...Bob Hegbloom is the Director of RAM Trucks

VIDEO

From the video:

"A little known fact, when you look at what's going on in the heavy duty piece of the market, we are, right now, the #2 guy in that piece of the market. We are number one in a number of States in the Country, and that's where we're going with this product that we have in the market today."

[bucky]

I would be interested in seeing DIESEL sales numbers. Nobody breaks that out that I have seen recently. The last real #s I saw were Ford 51%, GM 25%, and Dodge 24% in 2500/3500 series pickups. No idea what they are now.

[drillking]

Everyone has an opinion of what truck they think is best. I'm 62 yrs old and have had a business the last 30 yrs that requires the use of pickups (as well as large trucks) exclusively used off road. Sand, mountains, all four seasons. I've had responsible drivers to totally irresponsible ones! I've used the only three truck companies I consider worth using, Ford, Dodge & Chevy. They pull pipe trailers, generators, equipment of all kinds. Ford has proven to me (in my opinion) to be the longest lasting truck out there. After some rough years with pieces of crud diesels, I really am impressed with the new in house 6.7's that I have been running. Some 2011's with 180,000 miles. No major problems.

[Vulcaneer]

BeerCan wrote:
Vulcaneer
Sounds like you have the same RAM dealer we do. Earlier this year when we were shopping trucks we went to dealers for all 3 brands for test drives. RAM did not seem to want to sell trucks at all. It was almost comical how far out of the way they went to lose our business. GM and Ford were way more accommodating. Hopefully when I need a new truck 5 or so years from now they will have their act together.

Nope. Not one dealer. It was three RAM dealers. I really wanted to buy the RAM. But three stupid dealers? Three different cities. More than I could put up with.

[BeerCan]

Vulcaneer
Sounds like you have the same RAM dealer we do. Earlier this year when we were shopping trucks we went to dealers for all 3 brands for test drives. RAM did not seem to want to sell trucks at all. It was almost comical how far out of the way they went to lose our business. GM and Ford were way more accommodating. Hopefully when I need a new truck 5 or so years from now they will have their act together.

[Cummins12V98]

Vulcaneer wrote:
Gimme as break. Director of RAM trucks, speaks to his minions about how great he is doing? Just trying to justify his multi million dollar job. Maybe he should address why they could not satisfy the market demands of 2013? His job is on the line. He has to do that.

And don't give me that******about the suppliers let them down. That's a cop out. RAM needs to select suppliers that can support their needs. Bottom line is, they lost a lot of sales to Ford and GM, because RAM could not deliver.

My next truck might be a RAM. But they need to show me one heck of a lot more than they showed me in 2012. And their sales people, fleet managers and truck managers needs to learn the important hauling and cc spec's of their trucks. They could not advise of the CCC, or the Towing capacity. In fact, one truck manager told me, it's a 3500 so the CCC is 3500 pounds.

And they need to put together a good package that meets my needs. Last time they didn't want my money. In fact they told me, if I can buy the Ford for that price, I should go get it. And it was 20 minutes later and I did.

I'll look at RAM again. But they got a long way to go with me. And I really don't care what hegbloom says. He'll be gone in a couple months anyway. The Fiat CEO isn't going to be fooled by this dope. And he needs to go on a diet, too.

I agree things were screwed up!

The good part is they did not sent out the trucks and have the Dealers fix the problems like they used to.

Remember it is the MY "13" !

Let's hope the 14's are fLAWLESS. I will be lOOking.

[Vulcaneer]

Gimme as break. Director of RAM trucks, speaks to his minions about how great he is doing? Just trying to justify his multi million dollar job. Maybe he should address why they could not satisfy the market demands of 2013? His job is on the line. He has to do that.

And don't give me that bullshiit about the suppliers let them down. That's a cop out. RAM needs to select suppliers that can support their needs. Bottom line is, they lost a lot of sales to Ford and GM, because RAM could not deliver.

My next truck might be a RAM. But they need to show me one heck of a lot more than they showed me in 2012. And their sales people, fleet managers and truck managers needs to learn the important hauling and cc spec's of their trucks. They could not advise of the CCC, or the Towing capacity. In fact, one truck manager told me, it's a 3500 so the CCC is 3500 pounds.

And they need to put together a good package that meets my needs. Last time they didn't want my money. In fact they told me, if I can buy the Ford for that price, I should go get it. And it was 20 minutes later and I did.

I'll look at RAM again. But they got a long way to go with me. And I really don't care what hegbloom says. He'll be gone in a couple months anyway. The Fiat CEO isn't going to be fooled by this dope. And he needs to go on a diet, too.

[ib516]

Dadoffourgirls wrote:

ib516 wrote:
This data is from Polk for 2012 3500s....



Here you can see RAM outsold GMC and Chevy combined last year in the 3500 series trucks.

Couple questions regarding the data. Is that 2012 Calendar Sales, or 2012 Model Year? Is that Sales (fleet and retail, purchase and lease), or is that Registrations?

Does cars.com really know what data they had from Polk?

What about 2500s?

I can tell you that it is not Sales for 2012 Calendar Year.

How do you know that? What's your data source?

Feel free to read the article yourself.

[ib516]

Engineer9860 wrote:
Somebody needs their choice in trucks validated.......

I might just buy another GM next time and surprise you. I've owned far more GM vehicles than Dodge/Rams. I don't need anything validated.

Not impressed with your comment either, I thought of you as one that was above that stuff, I guess I was wrong.

[Dadoffourgirls]

ib516 wrote:
This data is from Polk for 2012 3500s....



Here you can see RAM outsold GMC and Chevy combined last year in the 3500 series trucks.

Couple questions regarding the data. Is that 2012 Calendar Sales, or 2012 Model Year? Is that Sales (fleet and retail, purchase and lease), or is that Registrations?

Does cars.com really know what data they had from Polk?

What about 2500s?

I can tell you that it is not Sales for 2012 Calendar Year.

[Engineer9860]

Somebody needs their choice in trucks validated.......

[ib516]

This data is from Polk for 2012 3500s....



Here you can see RAM outsold GMC and Chevy combined last year in the 3500 series trucks.

[Dadoffourgirls]

ib516 wrote:

Dadoffourgirls wrote:

ib516 wrote:
Straight from the source...Bob Hegbloom is the Director of RAM Trucks

VIDEO

From the video:

"A little known fact, when you look at what's going on in the heavy duty piece of the market, we are, right now, the #2 guy in that piece of the market. We are number one in a number of States in the Country, and that's where we're going with this product that we have in the market today."

What is the source of the sources data?

Guess you'd have to ask him.

However, I'm going to take a stab in the dark here and say because he's the Director of the RAM Division, he might be privy to some data on sales numbers.

Yes, Polk is one company that has registration data. There are several companies that also obtain sales and registration data.

So my expectation of any management claims is to identify the source of data. Without source, you do not know how they are obtaining/calculating the ranking.

[45Ricochet]

FishOnOne wrote:

drillking wrote:
I'll stick with the new (2011 up) Ford 6.7's.

Now place nice... :W

:H Getting dyslectic are we :W Yeah I know your in a hurry to get to the next Ram thread....

[FishOnOne]

drillking wrote:
I'll stick with the new (2011 up) Ford 6.7's.

Now play nice... :W

[drillking]

I'll stick with the new (2011 up) Ford 6.7's.