Ford_News
01-02-2013, 10:59 AM
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Ford (http://www.autoblog.com/ford/) won't be snagging the best-selling-car title away from Toyota (http://www.autoblog.com/toyota/) just yet, but in addition to what should be another runaway best-selling-truck title, it can also boast being the top-selling brand in the US last year. While year-end sales totals aren't even in yet, Ford has already confirmed that it hit a big milestone by selling more than two million sales in the US for the year.
Following the November numbers that were up 5.4 percent year-over-year and were only about a month's worth of Escape sales short of the two-million-sales mark (1,961,177) to begin with, this didn't come as a huge surprise, but what is noteworthy is that Ford is the only brand to eclipse this mark since 2007 (and it has done so two years in a row). Chevrolet (http://www.autoblog.com/chevrolet/) and Toyota are the closest competitors to Ford having sold 1,684,555 and 1,674,802 units, respectively, through November, but this doesn't include sales from other brands. Looking at automakers as a whole, General Motors (http://www.autoblog.com/tag/general+motors/) should have top sales with almost 2.4 million units tallied at the end of November while Ford and Lincoln (http://www.autoblog.com/lincoln/) combined just barely passed two million sales during this same period.
Putting things in a bigger scale, Ford also says that, as of September, the Focus (http://www.autoblog.com/ford/focus/), F-Series (http://www.autoblog.com/tag/ford+f-series/) and Fiesta (http://www.autoblog.com/ford/fiesta/) models were three of the top five in global sales based on data provided by Polk (https://www.polk.com/). We should have our By The Numbers (http://www.autoblog.com/category/by-the-numbers/) post up soon with a full breakdown of December and 2012 sales, but until then, check out some of Ford's press release posted after the jump (http://www.mnfords.com/2013/01/01/ford-tops-2-million-us-sales-in-2012/#continued).Continue reading Ford tops 2 million US sales in 2012 (http://www.autoblog.com/2013/01/02/ford-tops-2-million-us-sales-in-2012/)
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Ford (http://www.autoblog.com/ford/) won't be snagging the best-selling-car title away from Toyota (http://www.autoblog.com/toyota/) just yet, but in addition to what should be another runaway best-selling-truck title, it can also boast being the top-selling brand in the US last year. While year-end sales totals aren't even in yet, Ford has already confirmed that it hit a big milestone by selling more than two million sales in the US for the year.
Following the November numbers that were up 5.4 percent year-over-year and were only about a month's worth of Escape sales short of the two-million-sales mark (1,961,177) to begin with, this didn't come as a huge surprise, but what is noteworthy is that Ford is the only brand to eclipse this mark since 2007 (and it has done so two years in a row). Chevrolet (http://www.autoblog.com/chevrolet/) and Toyota are the closest competitors to Ford having sold 1,684,555 and 1,674,802 units, respectively, through November, but this doesn't include sales from other brands. Looking at automakers as a whole, General Motors (http://www.autoblog.com/tag/general+motors/) should have top sales with almost 2.4 million units tallied at the end of November while Ford and Lincoln (http://www.autoblog.com/lincoln/) combined just barely passed two million sales during this same period.
Putting things in a bigger scale, Ford also says that, as of September, the Focus (http://www.autoblog.com/ford/focus/), F-Series (http://www.autoblog.com/tag/ford+f-series/) and Fiesta (http://www.autoblog.com/ford/fiesta/) models were three of the top five in global sales based on data provided by Polk (https://www.polk.com/). We should have our By The Numbers (http://www.autoblog.com/category/by-the-numbers/) post up soon with a full breakdown of December and 2012 sales, but until then, check out some of Ford's press release posted after the jump (http://www.mnfords.com/2013/01/01/ford-tops-2-million-us-sales-in-2012/#continued).Continue reading Ford tops 2 million US sales in 2012 (http://www.autoblog.com/2013/01/02/ford-tops-2-million-us-sales-in-2012/)
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