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Trucks, SUVs pull Ford sales down in March
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U.S. consumers bought 227,143 Ford Motor Co. vehicles in March, down 14 percent from a year earlier.
Dearborn, Mich.-based Ford (NYSE: F) manufactures F-Series Super Duty trucks at Louisville’s Kentucky Truck Plant on Chamberlain Lane and Ford Explorer and Mercury Mountaineer sport utility vehicles at the Louisville Assembly Plant on Fern Valley Road.
Ford said sales to individual retail customers were 17 percent lower than a year ago, with essentially the entire decline concentrated among trucks and sport utility vehicles.
Sales to daily rental companies were down 13 percent from a year ago.
In March, Explorer sales fell 14.8 percent, to 10,969 from 12,876. F-Series sales fell 23.8 percent, to 54,465 from 71,481 a year earlier. Sales for the Mountaineer fell 23.3 percent, to 1,443 from 1,882.
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