Ford pickup continues to be America’s best-promoting truck for 45th yr, automaker claims

DETROIT — Ford Motor’s F-Sequence pickup will remain America’s best-promoting car for a 40th straight 12 months in 2021 and the industry’s leading-selling truck for the 45th consecutive 12 months, the company claimed Thursday.

While the pickup, which features the F-150 model and other bigger siblings, has topped U.S. profits for many years, retaining the titles this calendar year was specially notable provided an ongoing scarcity of semiconductor chips that lowered output throughout the market.

Ford prioritized manufacturing of the F-Sequence in the course of rolling shutdowns of vegetation this 12 months thanks to the parts shortage, only possessing to close amenities that generate the pickups for comparatively small amounts of time when compared with months at other plants.

The chip shortage may trigger Normal Motors’ Chevrolet Silverado to get rid of its long-held 2nd-position profits title this yr to Stellantis’ Ram pickup. By the very first 3 quarters, Ram’s comprehensive-sizing pickup sales totaled 434,772 models as opposed with the Silverado at about 407,000.

GM spokesman Jim Cain downplayed the nameplate rankings but claimed the Detroit automaker remains “really perfectly positioned to supply its seventh consecutive year of profits management in the total-sizing pickup section.”

As opposed to Ford and Stellantis, GM has two comprehensive-sizing pickups. It sells the greater-priced GMC Sierra along with the Chevy Silverado. Merged revenue of both pickups outnumbered its crosstown rivals through the 3rd quarter.

Each GM and Stellantis report income on a quarterly foundation, even though Ford reviews its final results regular.

Ford offered 663,508 F-Series vans nevertheless November, a 7% lessen from a yr previously. That contains 534,831 units via the initial a few quarters of the 12 months, giving it a sizeable lead in excess of its Detroit crosstown rivals.

Ford confirmed its F-Collection success Thursday in releasing its November sales, which enhanced 5.9% when compared with a 12 months earlier to 158,793 cars.

Ford, based on non-public sector information, explained it was the only main U.S. automaker to publish a calendar year-more than-year increase in November. It also claimed it was the prime-marketing automaker in the state for a third consecutive thirty day period, marking the very first time because 1974 that it has completed that streak.