Compared with July 2005, most Ford products experienced sharp declines and overall sales declined 35.7 percent. In a statement today, Ford was, nonetheless, upbeat. “We had a solid retail month in July,” said Al Giombetti, president, Ford and Lincoln Mercury sales and marketing. “We are particularly encouraged by the response to our new cars, which offer distinctive styling and outstanding fuel economy. They are definitely the right products at the right time.” Retail sales for the Ford Fusion, Mercury Milan, and Lincoln Zephyr were up 18 percent over last month. The Mustang and Ford GT were the only models to post actual sales increases over July 2005. Volvo sales were down 10 percent, Jaguar was off 15 percent, Lincoln was down 21.5 percent, Mercury fell 34.1 percent, and Land Rover — on of Ford’s stronger brands — was also down considerably: 30.6 percent.
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08/01, 2:03 PM
posted by:
Nick
Knock Knock
Who’s There?
Ford
Ford Who?
Exactly…
Ford, you’re going to go out of business. Too bad, I have always liked Ford cars. Please, oh please just let Mazda go before you go under!
08/01, 2:09 PM
posted by:
Barry
Nice knock knock..lol.
08/01, 2:11 PM
posted by:
igor
welll LLN conveinently ommited the mention of the employee fire sale last year… but I agree this was a bad month..
One interestig tdbit from the release is the breakdown of fleet and retail sales for the Fusion/Milan/Zephyr – they together had 3% fleet sales last month – that is extremely low.
Igor
08/01, 2:18 PM
posted by:
Patrick
No surprise here.
08/01, 2:39 PM
posted by:
Anonymous
- Knock knock
- who’s there?
- GM
- GM who
- GM’a gonna drive your sorry ass out of business Mr. Ford
Go GM!
08/01, 2:42 PM
posted by:
Betty Swollocks
Mark Fields, get a hair cut, you’d probably be quite sexy with a neat crew cut and you’d look a whle lot less hick thats for sure. Maybe us Coastal AMericans will start buying your products if you do that for us
08/01, 2:43 PM
posted by:
Jon
Knock Knock
Who’s there?
Korea
Korea Who?
Korea, the country that will put GM in the grave
Jon.
08/01, 2:48 PM
posted by:
pj
knock knock
whos there
stf
stfu who
you stfu the joke is done
08/01, 2:56 PM
posted by:
Atomicbri
I think no one is surprised at this…. Volvo has a facelifted XC90 and the new S80 to come out as well as the C30. As for Ford, well….they have yet to get their act together. And they can’t keep relying on the Mustang, because it sales will begin to falter. THEY NEED TO REPLACE THE FOCUS! How many times must we all go on about that. AND NO NOT ANOTHER FACELIFT! Please Ford get smart and spend the cash to bring out the C1 Focus before there is no cash to help you on your “Way Forward”. Land ROver sales dropping is not much of a surprise either. The LR3 is nice but is soooo much more expensive than the DIsco II was, and as for Mercury and Lincoln…Hmmmummm(clears throat) well we all know why their sales are down, no products that anyone wants….
How were Mazda’s sales? Anyone know or am I overlooking it there in the article….
Well Ford needs to get their ass in gear before the gears tear up and leaves them stranded to only end up in the car crusher….
08/01, 3:09 PM
posted by:
al
anonymous GM is going down too buddy
08/01, 4:17 PM
posted by:
Jerry Mahoney
Let’s just kill Mercury please.
And lets get that new S type Jag here ASAP.
I bet the Volvo C30 is going to be big for the Volvo brand.
08/01, 4:44 PM
posted by:
2006300C
Buying all these British brands was a huge short sighted mistake, but leave mercury alone you idiots, Ford needs something for middle income buyers who don’t want a lowly ford but can’t handle the payments for a Lincoln or Jag. Product, product, product will save ford, not committees or advertising.
08/01, 4:51 PM
posted by:
Bush
That gun went off again…
08/01, 5:45 PM
posted by:
Downtown Outline Point
Any ideas why all companies are down with sales? Those same people already bought or lease new cars last year. They can’t lease or buy again till the lease is up at least 2 years or sell the cars in few years before getting new cars! DAMN, peeps are MORONS!!!
In two years (where the leases are up) the sales will peak and then drop again in 3 to 4 years. SIMPLE!!!
08/02, 12:00 AM
posted by:
1c3d0g
#14: it’s as simple as that, but apparently some people have a difficult time grasping the basic concept of that. I don’t blame them, since most haven’t finished 3rd grade.