Ford pickup sales down again others mostly up.

[buddyIam]

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

[Cummins12V98]

spoon059 wrote:

Cummins12V98 wrote:
Oh by the way does your truck smell like Burrito's with that Mexican Made engine?:)

Only if its running biodiesel!

My Son inherited 500 gallons of B100 with a house he bought. It ran great and smelled awesome in my 98 12V Cummins.

[spoon059]

Cummins12V98 wrote:
Oh by the way does your truck smell like Burrito's with that Mexican Made engine?:)

Only if its running biodiesel!

[Cummins12V98]

FishOnOne wrote:

Cummins12V98 wrote:
Hey FISH what say you?????????

I would say I've owned my '12 2.5 years and have 55k miles and not a glitch.

Best truck to date! It's a jewel of a truck.

BTW... It's good to see the number one selling truck being produced in America by an American company. :C

Oh and on another topic the wife finally decided on what new vehicle she liked the best and we purchased it last week.

The short list:
1. Grand Cherokee
2. Explorer Sport
3. Edge Sport

And after test driving all these vehicles she decided on another Edge but this time in a Sport model with 305HP. It's a jewel! :C

Thanks for the prompt response!

I just completed a 25 hour trip from NW WA to SoCal with my Mexican assembled RAM with it's many US made components including Engine, the full running gear, Alcoa wheels and many other options. It performed flawlessly with 53K on the clock towing 29K combined and netting just over 9mpg hand calc. Oh yea it has the weak 68RFE and a measly 350HP, 800TQ along with the wrong 3:42 gears. Pulled every grade along the way at 53mph or more.

It's nice to be satisfied with a purchase as much as we are!

Oh by the way does your truck smell like Burrito's with that Mexican Made engine?:)

[FishOnOne]

goducks10 wrote:
Bigger chance of something going wrong on our cheap a$$ trailers than any of the newer built trucks.

You got that right especially the tires! On our trip to Florida this past June every afternoon during the hottest time of the day we would pass a truck/camper on the side of the rode with a flat tire on the camper.

[NC_Hauler]

hone eagle wrote:

Fast Mopar wrote:
What a bunch of crybabies. One guy takes advice from a guy working at a counter in an RV dealership, another reports how many Rams he sees broken down on the side of the road. Yes, we all have our preferences, but grow up a little and recognize that GM, Ford, and Ram are building very capable HD trucks, the best they have ever built. All of them are great choices. I have spent more time than I should admit working on old cars, and if you want to learn about poor workmanship, I can show you examples from the 60's and 70's that truly are junk. In today's world, if your battery goes dead or you get a flat tire, you complain about the manufacturer. Sheesh!!!!

Boy you said it ,Got tired of it myself and bought a swedish station wagon.

At wuz a gud' 'un:B

[Tystevens]

Never mind ...

[hone_eagle]

Fast Mopar wrote:
What a bunch of crybabies. One guy takes advice from a guy working at a counter in an RV dealership, another reports how many Rams he sees broken down on the side of the road. Yes, we all have our preferences, but grow up a little and recognize that GM, Ford, and Ram are building very capable HD trucks, the best they have ever built. All of them are great choices. I have spent more time than I should admit working on old cars, and if you want to learn about poor workmanship, I can show you examples from the 60's and 70's that truly are junk. In today's world, if your battery goes dead or you get a flat tire, you complain about the manufacturer. Sheesh!!!!

Boy you said it ,Got tired of it myself and bought a swedish station wagon.

[john_bet]

Maybe I need to buy a new truck so I can have something to complain about on here. Or, maybe not. Just got mine broke in after almost 11 years and 175K. I think I shall keep pulling along with this one on very long trips like we did this year.

[RAS43]

Fast Mopar wrote:
What a bunch of crybabies. One guy takes advice from a guy working at a counter in an RV dealership, another reports how many Rams he sees broken down on the side of the road. Yes, we all have our preferences, but grow up a little and recognize that GM, Ford, and Ram are building very capable HD trucks, the best they have ever built. All of them are great choices. I have spent more time than I should admit working on old cars, and if you want to learn about poor workmanship, I can show you examples from the 60's and 70's that truly are junk. In today's world, if your battery goes dead or you get a flat tire, you complain about the manufacturer. Sheesh!!!!

Thank-you for some common sense which is sometimes lacking here when the discussion is about pickups.:B

[NC_Hauler]

goducks10 wrote:
Bigger chance of something going wrong on our cheap a$$ trailers than any of the newer built trucks.

true statement.

[NC_Hauler]

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.....

[goducks10]

Bigger chance of something going wrong on our cheap a$$ trailers than any of the newer built trucks.

[Fordlover]

srt20 wrote:
When I worked for a towing company, most of the broken down trucks we towed were Fords. Most of the broken down cars were the cheap imports.
The most impressive looking crashes (most nasty looking damage) yet the occupants lived, were GMs.

The very busy independent auto repair shop my buddy works at, they recommend buyers stay away from Chrysler products. It's what they see in more often for repairs, especially with troubles that shouldn't be happening at lower mileage. But I think that is outdated since Chrysler has improved quality/reliability a bunch.

[buddyIam]

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