Ford's F-Series Is Creating Jobs in America
Ford's F-Series truck has been America's best-selling truck for 36 straight years and isn't looking back at the competition anytime soon.
Ford's F-Series truck has been America's best-selling truck for 36 straight years and isn't looking back at the competition anytime soon.
Ford Motor Co. expects to shatter its full-year hybrid vehicle sales record this month, led by a handful of new vehicle offerings that are challenging Toyota Motor Corp. for hybrid-vehicle supremacy.
Of course, investors are put off by Ford's exposure to Europe's staggering auto economy, its losses in South America and its continuing costs to expand capacity in China. But it is difficult to ignore the automaker's high level of domestic sales success.
US automakers said Wednesday that sales of pickup trucks rose sharply in April because of a revival in the housing market and increased demand from the oil and gas industry.
Detroit’s boom-and-bust history was built on a dependence on big, fuel-thirsty vehicles. Now, with freshly stocked showrooms of new cars and more-efficient trucks, U.S. automakers are gaining ground on their Asian competitors with the best lineup in a generation.
Ford Motor Co. will add 2,000 jobs at a factory near Kansas City, Mo., to meet surging demand for pickup trucks and to build a new van.
U.S. pickup truck sales boomed in April, contributing to double-digit sales gains at Detroit auto makers as improving home construction spurred new-vehicle purchases by contractors and tradesmen.
The pickup segment this year is growing three times faster than the auto industry as a whole, and one domestic automaker is making a production adjustment to meet swelling demand.
Recent retiree Maggie Merrill and her husband represent the budding optimism that continued to bolster auto sales in April.