Excursion not being extinct
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Excursion not being extinct
I was reading a magazine and it had a small article on the supposedly New Excursion. Apparently Ford has built a SUV to compete with the Suburban. They might be naming it Excursion EX, but there debating on the name. It's 16" longer than the current Expedition. Anybody else caught this article? I believe it was in the Motor Trend Mag
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Originally Posted by Ducster1
I was reading a magazine and it had a small article on the supposedly New Excursion. Apparently Ford has built a SUV to compete with the Suburban. They might be naming it Excursion EX, but there debating on the name. It's 16" longer than the current Expedition. Anybody else caught this article? I believe it was in the Motor Trend Mag
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Originally Posted by birdman127
Yes!! Everest is the name for the replacement for the Excursion as for now! Rumors are that it will have a solid rear axle, 16 inches longer than a expy and available with either a 4.5 v6 stroker or a bigger (6.2) gas motor! Details are still sketchy
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and available with either a 4.5 v6 stroker
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Excursion still around?
Originally Posted by Ducster1
I was reading a magazine and it had a small article on the supposedly New Excursion. Apparently Ford has built a SUV to compete with the Suburban. They might be naming it Excursion EX, but there debating on the name. It's 16" longer than the current Expedition. Anybody else caught this article? I believe it was in the Motor Trend Mag
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Why would Ford need to compete with Suburban when Ford sells every Excursion they build. Chevy can sell a bag of cupcakes right now. I think they are redesigning Excursion to satisfy public and sell higher numbers of them. Which is good business but that Excursion is unequaled in my opinion.
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The Suburban outselling the Excursion by a margin of 8.6:1 might have something to do with it.
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Originally Posted by polarbear
The Suburban outselling the Excursion by a margin of 8.6:1 might have something to do with it.
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I know that, you know that...but tell the customers that. The 3/4T makes up about 12% of the Suburban model mix- which tells a story in itself. The Excursion is a fine truck- it's just too much truck for the majority of the market base it's trying to address. I just shot that post out because, for all of GM's problems (and there's plenty), full-size SUV's don't count amongst them.
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Originally Posted by psdwanabe
Bad comparison. The X outsells the 3/4 ton suburban, which is what its competing against.
By offering both a 1/2 ton and 3/4 ton version, GM knows that when someone orders a 3/4 ton, they're not going to complain about a little worse mileage and a little stiffer ride since they're most likely getting it to tow fairly big loads.
Interesting about the new truck, though. I'll look forward to reading more about that.
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IMO, Ford didn't put 1/2 ton springs under a 3/4 ton truck to appeal to the 3/4 ton truck buyer,
they did it to compete with the 1/2 ton suburban in it's main roll as a mom taxi.
Don't you get tired of slamming the X? Your arguments didn't wash when you owned your lemon X, they don't wash now that you have your beloved sub/youkon/tahoe whatever it is you got.