F-150s selling as fast as they can make them

[SuperDutyMan]

The F series Ford has been the best selling truck for over 25 years,and tonight they reported on the news,they are selling at a rate of one every 42 seconds! Man that's a lot of trucks!

[transamz9]

I buy the least sold of the big three because that's what I like. I like to be different though. :B

[Engineer9860]

Don't you ladies ever tire of bickering about the same old chit?

Every truck I have ever bought was a Chevy. My next truck will be a Chevy.

Buy what makes you happy and to hades with what everyone else thinks.......

[transamz9]

dougford wrote:

gijoecam wrote:

MARK VANDERBENT wrote:
The whole 25 year best selling is not in comparison to CHEVY and GMC together. GM trucks have outsold ford trucks many years over the last 15 they have switched off leads back and fourth. This is not my opinion, this is FACT !!. Check into it all u want. Ford thinks they can claim 25 years #1 sales because they put only against chevy, and any real truck guy will tell u GM trucks include CHEVY and GMC. Still happy for ford, and as I am a GM guy glad to see all three companys doing good.

And for many of those last 15 years, Ford outsold the combined Chevy and gmc badges too. Iirc, last year was close at just over 60,000 trucks...

gijoecam: You recall correctly, except it's been 31 years. From autoblog.com:
"The best-selling vehicle in all the land last year was, of course, the Ford F-Series pickup. If our math is correct, that makes its string of sales crowns 31-years long. While last year's performance of 645,316 units sold is far from the 900,000+ sold in 2001, 2004 and 2005, it was still enough to best the F-150's main competitor and second-best-selling vehicle of 2012, the Chevrolet Silverado, plus that truck's twin, the GMC Sierra, combined."

Clicky

A quick search of truck sales for the last couple of years shows Ford selling more than Chevy and GM combined. Maybe there was a year somewhere where the combined Chevy/GM sales were higher, but I can't seem to find it...

And if the GM/Chevy guys want their truck sales combined, then should Ford sales include the Lincoln Mark LT pickups?

Play fair now because GM also has the Caddy and Avalanche.

[shadows4]

I would like to thank all of you who have purchased a new F150. Job security!!:B
We are down now for Christmas and are being laid off for an extra week while they retool some of the line in preparation for the 2015's. While this is good they have every other Sunday for A crew and every other Saturday for B crew scheduled for at least the first three months of 2014. Hope we catch up before spring as this gets into the camping season other wise. (Nice problem to have!) Merry Christmas to all!!! John

[dougford]

gijoecam wrote:

MARK VANDERBENT wrote:
The whole 25 year best selling is not in comparison to CHEVY and GMC together. GM trucks have outsold ford trucks many years over the last 15 they have switched off leads back and fourth. This is not my opinion, this is FACT !!. Check into it all u want. Ford thinks they can claim 25 years #1 sales because they put only against chevy, and any real truck guy will tell u GM trucks include CHEVY and GMC. Still happy for ford, and as I am a GM guy glad to see all three companys doing good.

And for many of those last 15 years, Ford outsold the combined Chevy and gmc badges too. Iirc, last year was close at just over 60,000 trucks...

gijoecam: You recall correctly, except it's been 31 years. From autoblog.com:
"The best-selling vehicle in all the land last year was, of course, the Ford F-Series pickup. If our math is correct, that makes its string of sales crowns 31-years long. While last year's performance of 645,316 units sold is far from the 900,000+ sold in 2001, 2004 and 2005, it was still enough to best the F-150's main competitor and second-best-selling vehicle of 2012, the Chevrolet Silverado, plus that truck's twin, the GMC Sierra, combined."

Clicky

A quick search of truck sales for the last couple of years shows Ford selling more than Chevy and GM combined. Maybe there was a year somewhere where the combined Chevy/GM sales were higher, but I can't seem to find it...

And if the GM/Chevy guys want their truck sales combined, then should Ford sales include the Lincoln Mark LT pickups?

[Dog_Folks]

IndyCamp wrote:
Who sold more albums/cds/digital downloads in the United States in the last five years: Justin Bieber or Johann Sebastian Bach?

Answer: Bieber.

Conclusion on RV.net: A Bieber product is of better quality than that of a Bach product. After all, sales don't lie.

Many years ago on the first day of a college class on statistics, the professor told us:

"Figures don't lie, but remember,liars figure."

[Fordlover]

IndyCamp wrote:
Who sold more albums/cds/digital downloads in the United States in the last five years: Justin Bieber or Johann Sebastian Bach?

Answer: Bieber.

Conclusion on RV.net: A Bieber product is of better quality than that of a Bach product. After all, sales don't lie.

Wha? Bach is still making new music? Who'd a thought!!!

[2112]

hoopers wrote:
Ford stock took a big dump yesterday, fwiw.

I guess the f150 sales were not enough to keep the stock going.

And GM took the same dump as well as many others.

[gijoecam]

wittmeba wrote:

SuperDutyMan wrote:
The F series Ford has been the best selling truck for over 25 years,and tonight they reported on the news,they are selling at a rate of one every 42 seconds! Man that's a lot of trucks!

My son works for Ford and indicates the problem is the are coming off the assembly line at a rate of 1 per minute. Hmmmm....

I also work for Ford.

You must have missed my post where I pointed out the obvious: They make the F150 in two plants and the Super Duties in a third. Even if a truck only comes off the line once a minute in each plant, that's still three trucks a minute, or once every 20 seconds.

[texasdiver]

About 4 million babies were born in the US last year which comes out to about one birth every 7 seconds.

Last time I checked it still takes 9 months to make one though.

[NC_Hauler]

bmanning wrote:

WeBeFulltimers wrote:
F-150.....A nice little truck....for a woman. :R

Oh please... :R

There are a few members here who use class 8 Volvos; perhaps they should post "three-quarter-ton diesel....nice little truck....for an adolescent boy"

:B..That was a good one....

[hone_eagle]

big dump

Because of about 15 new launches next year ,the ninnys on wall street p'ed themselves.

[hoopers]

Ford stock took a big dump yesterday, fwiw.

I guess the f150 sales were not enough to keep the stock going.

I own an f150 and silverado. Both have their pluses and minuses.

[hone_eagle]

wittmeba wrote:

SuperDutyMan wrote:
The F series Ford has been the best selling truck for over 25 years,and tonight they reported on the news,they are selling at a rate of one every 42 seconds! Man that's a lot of trucks!

My son works for Ford and indicates the problem is the are coming off the assembly line at a rate of 1 per minute. Hmmmm....

More then one plant I believe I think at least 2 assembly plants,we use to build 351's at a 21 second rate . The fastest was 18 sec. (long time ago).