Originally posted by sigma:
Originally posted by Fmr12B:
Isn't Ford going to be doing the GM, employee pricing deal where everyone gets it?
I swear I got a Ford flier in the mail a few days back notifying me of this.
I doubt it. Unlike GM most of Ford's lineup is meeting expectations and they're not having to resort to deep rebates or many fleet sales. This month is the first month for rebates on the new Freestyle and Five Hundreds after much longer than expected.
WHAT?  Yeah, meeting expectations  definitely not the Street's.
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At Ford, the No. 2 carmaker behind GM, new vehicle demand fell for the 12th straight month. Sales slipped nearly 3 percent in May, and Ford's total sales are off 4 percent for the first five months of the year.
The Mustang coupe sold at a blistering pace, up 47 percent from last May, Ford said yesterday. Ford, Lincoln and Mercury brand car sales rose 4.3 percent, but it wasn't enough to offset a 6.4 percent loss in truck sales.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05153/514111.stm
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Ford Motor Company May U.S. sales totaled 283,994, down 11 percent compared with a year ago. However, the brightest spot in the company and perhaps the industry has to be the 2005 Mustang sales. George Pipas, Ford Sales Analyst says the sales were the highest for Ford's legendary pony car in the month of May, since 1980.
http://media.ford.com/article_display.cfm?article_id=20942
http://www.cnn.com/2005/AUTOS/06/01/auto_sales.reut/
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