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Pickup Trucks Dominate US Auto Sales |
2023-12-03 |
Ford’s immensely popular line of pickup trucks has been the best-selling truck for 46 consecutive years and the country’s best-selling vehicle for the last 41 years. And since it’s very hard to overtake an F-Series truck, both literally and figuratively, the F-Series will once again be America’s number 1 vehicle this year. As Statista's Felix Richter reports, according to Car and Driver, Ford sold 573,370 units of its heavyweight truck in the first nine months of 2023, including 12,260 electric F-150 Lightning trucks. In a testament to America’s love of pickup trucks, the F-Series is trailed by the Chevy Silverado and the Ram Pickup in second and third place, before the Toyota RAV4 is the first non-heavy-duty vehicle in this year’s ranking of best-selling cars and trucks. |
Posted by:Besoeker |
#6 Part of the thought behind people buying trucks and other large vehicles is the feeling that small econoboxes are deathtraps in a collision. I am on my third F truck in a row, and will likely be my last vehicle purchase. But hell no I'm not giving them $80g for one. |
Posted by: ed in texas 2023-12-03 14:35 |
#5 Just to go to the supermarket and ride around town. Spent some time in West Palm Beach. There were days when the Publix Grocery valet parking line was full of waiting Rolls Silver Shadows on their commute home. There will be buyers. |
Posted by: Skidmark 2023-12-03 11:24 |
#4 Another frightening aspect of vehicle purchasing is the current auto loan interest rates. Seven to nearly nine percent appear to be common. |
Posted by: Besoeker 2023-12-03 07:09 |
#3 OOOOOH..... Can't wait to run down and buy a 2023 Ford F-150 Limited with modest price of only $83,010. But! it comes with a Cadillac level interior and a hybrid 430 horsepower twin-turbo V6 engine. Just to go to the supermarket and ride around town. Because with that $83K price, who in heavens name would want to get mud on it? I can buy a fully restored Old school 1968 Chev C-10 short bed with chrome reverse mag's and L-50 rear tires for 1/2 that amount. |
Posted by: NN2N1 2023-12-03 06:53 |
#2 Real vehicles for real money. |
Posted by: M. Murcek 2023-12-03 06:48 |
#1 Truck in the graphic with a standard transmission and six cylinder engine could have been purchased new for under $1900. Yes I know, the 1960's was a very long time ago. |
Posted by: Besoeker 2023-12-03 06:45 |