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For $F to stop selling trucks in North America would be financial suicide. They sell on average an F series every 30 seconds. F series numbers for 2018 are tren
by nodesocket 8y ago
For $F to stop selling trucks in North America would be financial suicide. They sell on average an F series every 30 seconds. F series numbers for 2018 are trending up, with this March being the largest March month they've had in five years[1]. Not to mention, trucks are really expensive. A nice loaded F-150 can easily cost $40k and above.
[1] http://fordauthority.com/fmc/ford-motor-company-sales-numbers/ford-sales-numbers/ford-f-series-sales-numbers/ http://fordauthority.com/fmc/ford-motor-company-sales-number...
- drag0nballz 8y agoThey are not. F150, SUVs, Crossovers still selling. Headline was a bit off
- nodesocket 8y agoYes, I was making the point they would not stop selling trucks. Typical TechCrunch writing misleading headlines to get clicks.
- whistlerbrk 8y agoDisagree. People who drive trucks do not consider them a subset of cars. That's why it's the automotive industry not the car industry.
- solarkraft 8y agoThis. Automotive industry media in general had me confused with the terms. "SUVs" are absolutely cars. Most utility vehicles are cars. Even "passenger cars". Dumb terminology but TC is perfectly in line with the industry.
- drag0nballz 8y agoNot just them but my buddy calls his Jeep SUV a "truck". Some of this is history. I have an original Jeep Cherokee which is built on a truck platform. His is a Grand, which is built on a car platform. I'm always like, yours is a car, mine's a truck. Then I realize this is dumb to argue about. Just a bad headline.
- thermalgobshite 8y agoThe original Cherokee is unibody, just like the Grand Cherokees have always been. What truck body is your Cherokee built on?
- kevin_thibedeau 8y agoIt depends on the SUV in question. Old school body on frame SUVs are most definitely trucks. The jacked up cars with extra head room (Ford Kuga/Escape) are not. The only reason why those things are considered trucks at all is to game the CAFE emissions requirements.
- chrisseaton 8y agoWhy do you call them $F?
- nodesocket 8y agoTicker symbol.
- chrisseaton 8y agoIt's just 'F' isn't it? Why add a dollar? And why not just more simply write 'Ford'?
- scintill76 8y ago'Cause you gotta be trendy, like referring to cities by their airport code.
- Washuu 8y agoActually the $ helps with search engines and actually helps to indicate to me that the author meant a stock symbol instead of a bunch of random letters.
- chrisseaton 8y ago> actually helps to indicate to me that the author meant a stock symbol instead of a bunch of random letters Which really just takes us back to... why not just write 'Ford'?
- bhandziuk 8y agoYeah but F, o, r and d are pretty random.
- ebbv 8y agoBecause people think by referring to a company by its ticker symbol makes them seem like they are more of an expert.