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Rivals gain on Ford truck sales
Ford Motor Co. is launching its new F-150 next year, but it can’t get to market soon enough.
Ford ended January with 32.5% of the sales in the full-size truck segment, down 1.2 percentage points compared with the same period a year earlier. That was the biggest decline among the competitors in the large truck category, which is one of the big profit centers for automakers. While the Ford F-Series has been the best-selling truck model for 31 years, the Chevrolet Silverado trailed the F-Series by just 5,000 trucks in January. Toyota Motor Corp.’s new Tundra picked up 4.8 percentage points of share in the month, for 9.5% of the market.
Coming up: Ford prepares to launch another round of buyouts of its hourly workers.
Couple win auto show wedding
Most people go to auto shows to pick out a car. One couple is going to the Chicago Auto Show to make a stronger commitment.
Chrysler chose Jackie Rohner and Blake Humphrey of Rock Island, Ill., from 63 entries to get married at the auto show. The couple — she’s a schoolteacher and he’s a firefighter — win a Dodge Journey, and Chrysler sprang for a wedding reception and, of course, a Journey cover band.
“If we have experienced and accomplished so many great things in less than a year of dating, we can’t wait to see what, together as a married couple, we can accomplish in a lifetime,” Rohner said in her entry letter.
Coming up: Chrysler readies launch of Dodge Journey crossover.
Site for motoring memories opens
Want to post a picture of that 1968 Camaro you drove in your younger days? Have a story about working at a General Motors plant?
GM has opened up its “Wiki” site at its GMNext Web site that allows the public to share stories about the first 100 years of the world’s largest automaker.
Users must register their e-mail on www.gmnext.com to make submissions, then click the Wiki tab at the top. From there, users can post a picture, write a submission or read other submissions.
GM said all submissions are moderated to assure they follow the rules listed on the Wiki, but accuracy is overseen by the user community and subject matter experts.
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