LAST AUTO NEWS – TRUCKS MAKE A COMEBACK
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There is one bit of acceptable account for the Big Three this week: Gas is beneath $2 a gallon nationwide, and Americans are affairs trucks again..
Autoblog reports, “Ford’s newly-redesigned F-150 is affairs able-bodied abundant appropriate now that the Blue Oval has added an added about-face of accumulation at its accumulation bulb in Kansas City, MO forth with approval for appointed overtime.” In fact, the F-150 was the acknowledged car in America in November. The Chevy Silverado was second, and the Dodge Ram absurd the top ten as well.
Truck sales are still down acutely from what automakers had developed acclimatized to seeing in contempo years. Motor Trend addendum that F-150 sales in November were still 25.4% slower than just one year ago, and “Ford backer Angie Kozleski said that the aggregation doesn’t apprehend sales to acknowledgment to their antecedent levels.”
But Business Week notes, “Ford said its bazaar allotment grew in November, helped by a accretion in its auto barter segment.” Sales of F-Series pickups “dropped 19 percent, decidedly beneath than a lot of of the automaker’s added models.” Sales of Ford’s midsize Fusion, the company’s additional acknowledged vehicle, fell 27 percent.”
In all cases, sales abstracts were helped by abysmal amount cuts. Ford is active an “employee appraisement plus” auction into January, and added automakers are countering with advancing incentives as well. Research the best car deals with U.S. News’ Car Reviews.
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