NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- With sales of full-size pickups in a steep
decline, Ford Motor Co. said Friday it is delaying the launch of its
new, redesigned Ford F-150 pick-up by two months.
The full-size pick-up, which had been due to enter showrooms in early
fall will now come out in late fall, instead.
Ford also announced more production cutbacks. The company said it will
produce 25% fewer vehicles in the third quarter of this year than it
did in the same quarter of 2007. The cuts will be among Ford's large
trucks and SUVs.
Meanwhile, Ford said it is working to boost production of its small
cars and crossover SUVs, products that have been attracting more sales
this year even as overall auto sales have dropped.
The Ford F-series has been the top-selling passenger vehicle in
America for 26 straight years. Big pickups have been a popular and
profitable item for Detroit Automakers. But high gas prices and a
declining home-construction market have hit truck sales hard.
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HA-Ha ! Nobody wants their gas-hawgs ! :-)
So Ford's "working to boost production of its
small cars" eh ? Gee, THE WRITING WAS ON THE
WALL BOLD AS GRAFFITI three or four YEARS ago
that the gas-hawg party was OVER.
Did Ford and GM start re-tooling for econo-cars
then ? HELL NO they didn't. Now they're pissin'
and moanin' and will probably want big govt
bailouts because they were too STUPID to see
what was coming.
F-150, 250, 350 ... not BIG enough ! Gee-ZUS -
towards the end they were selling gawdawfully
ugly V-10 F-450s done up like passenger trucks.
Those things were meant to be small dump trucks
and delivery vans !
7-MPG ? No worries. Just increase the *advertising
budget* and goad dumb-ass soccermoms and micro-dick
rednecks into buying the things. Why, they'd throw
in 1000 gallons of *FREE GAS* (which they indirectly
added to the price-tag of course). Too bad those big
trucks can eat up that much gas in a month ... which
just leaves you with 47 more months of payments ...
and fill-ups .............
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