November 2018: Ford Motor Company

[William Maley]

Ford F-Series Pickups Produce A Record Nine Straight Months Topping 70,000 Trucks Sold; Ford Expedition Sales Up 7.9 Percent, While Lincoln Navigator Gains 27.3 Percent

[David]

Winners of this:

• Fiesta - 5,238 up 72.6%
• Fusion - 16,652 up 11.8% why are they killing it?
• Taurus - 2,247 up 4.7%
• Police Interceptor Utility - 2,777 up 7.2%
• Expedition - 4,264 up 7.9%
• Heavy Trucks - 1,048 up 85.2%
• MKC - 2,263 up 11.1%
• Nautilus / MKX - 3,153 up 20.4%
• Navigator - 1,566 up 27.3%

Interesting 🤔 what is keeping ford going on the positive side in addition to their 70,000 truck sales.

Yet even with the negative down you still have these auto's that are selling very well:

• Escape - 21,516 down 14.3%
• Explorer - 17,696 down 17.8%

Plenty that are near 10,000 autos sold too. Very interesting to see where the sales are at, you would think they could have a single assembly line that would keep a couple cars going besides the mustang.

[A Horse With No Name]

Wow...conti off almost 27 percent...

[David]

29 minutes ago, A Horse With No Name said:

Wow...conti off almost 27 percent...

Pretty much dead duck, gotta wonder how long they will attempt to keep this going. In hindsight, they would have been better to not bother bringing it back at all and focused on the very old Navigator they were still selling at that time.

[A Horse With No Name]

1 hour ago, dfelt said:

Pretty much dead duck, gotta wonder how long they will attempt to keep this going. In hindsight, they would have been better to not bother bringing it back at all and focused on the very old Navigator they were still selling at that time.

Which is why I argue fewer cars and better cars is a good way of thinking for the market. I love Audi....would probably take the right Audi over even a Chevy SS....but Balthazar is right...too many models.

[balthazar]

Better hurry up & get your A8- they only sold 32 units last month. At least the Conti is still near 700.
I remember when I predicted the A8 would fall under 200/mnth= those were the 'fat days' at Audi. Now it may slip under 20.

[Robert Hall]

low volume=exclusivity for a luxury car. That's a good thing. 

[balthazar]

Don't think there's not a level at which Audi pulls it from the market- it's not cheap importing, servicing, certifying, stocking parts, advertising, etc for a car selling 375 copies per year and sinking like a stone.