F-Series down 30% from '04
Expy down 61% (WOW!)
Explorer down 58%
Freestar down 45%
Ranger down 26%



On the upside, X sales were up 16%.

 

This is fair, considering ford selling older vehicles for higher prices, compared back to this August.I'd rather think this is one step of the tactics made in purpose. Otherwise it's hard to understand the stepping-back in rebate amounts.

 

This is September 2005 versus September 2004. So Ford was in the same situation both years.

 

Who in their right mind would buy an 06' truck from Ford now? in 05' one could have bought a loaded Lariat Super crew (sticker $39,000) for "$30,250. UNTIL one can get the same deal on an 06,' FORGET IT. Ford will have to "come down" to the above mentioned prices.

 

You're right.
but since the price in Auguest 2005 is so low, people in Sep 04 and Sep 05 must had quite different expectations.

 

Year to Date total F-series are about the same. A little less. Remember Ford had a record month in sales in July 126,000 or so. An August about 90,000. Remeber the hurricanes shut down many Ford dealerships for several days. As some are out off commission yet. They pulled numbers ahead from those 2 months. To be expected. GM will probably have the sasme results when they report there sales. Big SUVs are not selling well for anybody. They are the big 3s cash cows.

 

And,

Delpi is bankrupt. Rumors about GM going the same way are all over financial news.

No more employee pricing?

Big GM and Ford dealers around her in NC have VERY small inventories.

Fuel prices do matter! I don't care what the markets analysts and Bush and Greenspan say.

It's tight times for US automakers and tight consumer times as well.

Apparently our US manufactured dealers are getting ready for some tough times. (Saw six salesmen standing under the BIG GM dealers ovehang in a driving rain this past week...They all looked pretty hungry to me!) Guess they were pulling straws about which one was next to visit any prospective customer that might drive through the lot looking at leftovers?

Toyata, Nissan advertizing their trucks "like the devil" on TV. Lots of fuel efficient new cars being sold around here, few are from the "big three"

Local up-scale used car and truck dealership hasn't changed over any bigger PU trucks in inventory in several weeks. (Go by their lot every day.)

Not a good time! We all will see who survives this eventually.