Ram 2500 CTD in Africa

RobertRyan wrote:

Shiner Brock wrote:
This is true, however, due to the size of the US truck market there is no need to leverage production to other markets to make selling them profitable. In fact, the US sells more pickup trucks every year than the rest of the world combined. Our market is big enough to have market specific vehicles while many other markets are not, and need to spread amongst many markets to make designing/building them profitab

Far from it, if the market goes down then manufacturers are not making profits but losses overall. They would start shipping more production to Mexico to reduce costs. Mary Barra the Woman the head of GM said they could make profits of a turnover of a 10 million vehicles, if the market got that low, but I certainly would have my doubts on that
Globally 100 million vehicles are sold, so 2 million is a pretty small percentage of that number

Okay, first you were talking about sales being shifted to other markets and now you are saying it is production? Which one is it?

We are talking about truck models here, not over all vehicles sales. In that regard, more trucks are sold in NA than all other markets combined so it does need to be sold elsewhere to to make a profit.

In regards to overall vehicles sales, 100 million is a false. It is more like 80 million. Over 5 million are pickup trucks and the US alone makes up almost 3 million of those sales not including Canada.