Ford Beats GM in Monthly U.S. Sales for First Time Since 1998

Businessweek ^ | 3/2/2010 | Mike Ramsey and Keith Naughton

[adamjeeps]

Ford Motor Co. posted a 43 percent surge in U.S. sales in February, beating General Motors Co. in monthly deliveries for the first time since 1998.

[adamjeeps]

Thought I would post the U.S. Toyota sales update since I posted the Japanese sales yesterday. Looks like Ford is getting sales from both Toyota and GM. I expect Toyota will bounce back soon and GM sales will fall.

[Da Coyote]

Just purchased another Ford truck. Loved the previous one - and had absolutely no maintenance beyond the normal filters/etc.

Government Motors can suck an egg.

And I’d trust Toyota far, far more than any goon in our present government.

[PGR88]

Besides slight changes in perception of quality, etc... the only logical answer for such a large swing is that sensible people and conservatives do not want to support a Gov’t run car company.

[Fiddlstix]

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[Pollster1]

My car is from the Ford family, and its replacement (after Obama is out of our White House) will also be from a non-government car company. GM and Chrysler are dead to me - forever.

[piperpilot]

Oh goody. Must go check my stock ticker. Ford was up big time yesterday. Well over $12/share.

[ZX12R]

sensible people and conservatives do not want to support a Gov’t run car company.

Apparently, nor do investors. From the time of GM's bankruptcy, Ford's stock price went from around $5.00 a share, to today's $12.50 a share.

[re_nortex]

...sensible people and conservatives do not want to support a Gov’t run car company.

Although I realize it probably wasn't her decision, I lost a degree of respect for Laura Ingraham when she did the paid endorsements for Government Motors.

[mirkwood]

So did Hannity, Rush, Howie Carr, Glenn beck.

[TennesseeGirl]

I have an ‘08 Mustang. :)

[re_nortex]

So did Hannity, Rush, Howie Carr, Glenn beck.

Did they actually do the personality endorsement spots that I heard on Laura Ingraham's program? I may be mistaken but I thought I heard Laura Ingraham extolling the virtues of the ``new'' General Motors -- post government funding. That's what bothered me.

By the way, I heard an ad for General Electric on Sean Hannity's program yesterday, touting the virtues of the company as being military-friendly. It wasn't a personal endorsement and it may have merely been a local spot and not a national buy on his program.

[DonGrafico]

"Sales to businesses and government buyers drove GM’s growth. While Chevrolet posted a 32 percent increase, deliveries to dealerships were up only 1 percent, GM said."

Government makes them with your children's tax dollars and then buys them with your grandchildren's tax dollars. What a country!

[erman]

NEVER buy a GM product again. I’d rather by a Chinese or Russian made model. Starve the beast and screw the unions and the government motors thugs.

[caver]

I haven’t heard any commercials on Rush advertising GM anymore either.

[quantim]

[quantim]

It's been almost a year since taxpayers got in the car business.

[Gaffer]

What you mean is: “Knife-in-the-table-dead ala Rahm Emanuel, D-E-A-D”, don’t you?

[Gaffer]

I don’t have a problem with capitalist entrepreneurs making a buck off of a sick-demented government apparatchik.

[mirkwood]

Yes, they were doing the personal endorsements. I have not heard any in a while, so it could have been they were finishing a contract. It seems they did not renew. It bothered me that these guys were yelling about gov takeovers, and then extolling the virtues of gov motors. Oh well, in the end it all adds up to $$$$.

[Josh Painter]

Love my ‘06 Fusion. Will probably trade it on an ‘11 Mustang.

- JP