Ford to suspend Super Duty production
Beginning Monday, October 8, FoMoCo will suspend production of its F-series Super Duty pickup for two weeks. According to Ford, sales have slumped because of the housing slowdown (Damn subprime mortgage market!), a variable that seems to have a profound effect on pickup sales. Ford's sales analyst, George Pipas, says that the production halt is a way to avoid excess inventory and has nothing to do with September's sales decline of Ford pickups by 20.8-percent.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 3)
SPG 6:35PM (10/02/2007)
I think it has somthing to do with the twenty percent decline in Ford truck sales by at least twenty percent.
Not to mention, it's time for a replacement.
Not just a refreshening.
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Laghing at you 6:53PM (10/02/2007)
SO TRUE!
This beast was released just 5 months ago and need to be replaced. HAHA.
Ram superduty still sells after 3 years on the market. Silverado Superduty is also eating this fords launch.
People dont trust the 6.7 diesel. too many problems with the 6.0 has turned a lot of people off of ford.
Austin 6:39PM (10/02/2007)
For september:
Toyota Tundra up 63%
Dodge Ram up 25%
Silverado up 4%
Sierra up 11%
even Titan up 23%
Fseries down.
What does Ford say? Pipas and Fields blame the housing market. They have said this all 7 months the Fseries has declined this year. Oh no, dont say anything bad about the product because your honesty shoots yourself in the foot, and dont say its competiotion because you give everyone else credit. Just blame the freaking housing market.
You know what Pipas and Fields, keep blaming the housing market until you sell zero Fseries in a month.
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ford_for_road 6:43PM (10/02/2007)
another bad day for ford........................
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Silver 6:46PM (10/02/2007)
Wow, how many chrome trees had to die for the front end of that truck?
Sad.
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ratio411 7:20PM (10/04/2007)
That's so true.
Fugly to the n'th degree.
When did a 50 square foot flat frontal area with 48 square foot of chrome thrown in willy-nilly become attractive???
Also, dumping the 7.3 PSD... Classic stupidity.
Ben 2:24PM (10/03/2007)
As a European I say: this thing looks terrible. Who wants to drive in such a thing?
It is strange indeed that sales of rivals went up and for this one down.
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Chris 6:48PM (10/02/2007)
As a European I say: this thing looks terrible. Who wants to drive in such a thing?
It is strange indeed that sales of rivals went up and for this one down.
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David 2:20AM (10/03/2007)
Chris, there is no explanation for it. I live in the great southwest and there are tons of jacked up trucks everywhere. It seems like ugly sells and the uglier the better. Soccer moms drive these things around because they think it's cool. I do know someone that bought one of these things and it cost 50k usd (about 70k euro or 100k pound).
Joe K. 7:52AM (10/03/2007)
David, your calculations are way off, but its nearly impossible to compare it to world prices because America doesn't see the taxes on vehicles everyone else (i.e. England) has. The euro would actually cost less than 40k Euros and around 25k Pounds, but then with importation and C02 taxes etc. those numbers would go through the roof...
Larry 7:03PM (10/02/2007)
Remeber "Ford has a better idea?" WHAT HAPPENED?
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Tom 7:04PM (10/02/2007)
it still amazes me just how ugly that damn thing is.
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wally 7:05PM (10/02/2007)
New meaning to:
F (found)
O (on)
R (roadside)
D (DEAD)
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paul34 7:06PM (10/02/2007)
Hum, so people actually DO use these as they were intended.
At valet, all I seem to see are mothers or fathers with a baby seat in the back, using a F350 as what must be to them an acceptable alternative to a Camry, or other family ride.
I wonder what they do with the capacity to haul a state and the room enough for a small country out back? Sometimes you really have to think about "ridiculous."
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Alon 7:14PM (10/02/2007)
Holy crap... just because you guys cant open your eyes enough to see that people actually USE big trucks like thees doesn't mean people aren't using them.
I would buy this truck in a second because I pull a trailer, work at a race shop where we need to pull race trucks around and are constantly filling the beds of trucks and pulling big trailers.
Enough crap talking about the people who have these trucks with a car seat in the back.... what do you want them to do, have a mini van for moving the kids and then a work truck for work?
I would rather drive this truck than dodge or chevy ANY day. The ford is built much better, stronger and doesnt feel as cheap as the dodge/chevy (in my opinion)
paul34 7:16PM (10/02/2007)
Well Alon, now, did I say anything against people who actually use them for their intended purposes? No, I didn't ;-)
Trust me, these aren't even work trucks "on the side." They're just people with a lot of money who can afford to have a "spare" F-350 for use as the family whip.
But eh, all I'll do is just comment there. People are still free to make their own choices, although sometimes I wish they would make slightly more responsible ones.
But hey, its personal choice, and I can respect that.
david 8:18PM (10/02/2007)
"At valet, all I seem to see are mothers or fathers with a baby seat in the back, using a F350 as what must be to them an acceptable alternative to a Camry, or other family ride."
That's probably one of the dumbest posts I've seen yet. My grandkids carseats are always in the back of my 3500 silverado. even when I'm hauling my bobcat. So?
And as an alternative to driving a Camry? Not in your wildest dreams would I drive a refridgerator on wheels.
Just for the record, I put all plans of buying new trucks including two F350's until the housing market starts to improve.
zakudomgoog 7:55PM (10/02/2007)
its behemoths like this that are responsible for my door dings. =(
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Tagg 8:41PM (10/02/2007)
No, its rude people that don't give a damn or people in smaller cars that can't park. I have a two beauties in my black Mustang and one came from a Cobalt. I know this because I was in the car when the girl threw her door open while yapping on her phone. I won't go into detail but payback was a bit..!
AltairDusk 10:31PM (10/02/2007)
I very much doubt that. Usually it's the people driving older crappier cars that cause the door dings because they just don't care, about their car or yours. The other typical culprit is children in the back seat of a car. Many times I've seen a family pull in and the kids in the back throw the doors open into the car next to them, often the parents don't even scold them for it.
Worst part of it is I'll try to park way back in the lots where there aren't any cars and other people will crowd around me so I end up with dings anyway. You would think they could figure out I parked far back from everyone for a reason...