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Toyota overtakes Dodge as third best-selling truck maker in U.S. (If you can't Dodge it...)
www.autoblog.com ^ | 1-12-2009 | Staff

Posted on 01/13/2009 10:41:37 AM PST by Red Badger

As we all know by now, auto sales are down, dropping by around 18% in 2008. Pick-ups actually fared worse, posting a decline of 26.5% over the same period. Still, the Ford F-150 and Chevy Silverado maintained their positions as the two best selling vehicles in the United States, and these two manufacturers managed to post incremental increases in total pick-up truck market share after all was said and done.

Those increases came directly from the competition, especially Dodge. The full-size Ram truck managed to see its piece of the pie dwindle by almost one full percentage point. Dodge's drop in overall market share allowed Toyota, for the first time ever, to grab the bronze medal behind Ford and General Motors. However, it's not particularly good news for the Japanese upstart, which owns just 8.52% of the market after seeing Tundra sales fall by over 30% in '08 and well short of its stated goal of 200,000 units per year. The last place trophy goes to Nissan, as its 34,000 sales represent a meager 2.11% of the market.

These market share figures include both full-sizers and their smaller brethren, and it was the Toyota Tacoma and the aging Ford Ranger that made the biggest upward moves among the mid-size pick-ups. Again, the biggest loser award goes to Dodge, which saw its Dakota sales fall nearly 65%, and its Mitsubishi Raider stablemate, which posted an insignificant 2,900 total sales.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: automakers; chevy; f150; manufacturing; ram; topten; toyota; tundra
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To: Spktyr; All

Perhaps, I am a little harsh here, but I am sick of hearing how American cars are crap and foreign cars are so great. I have seen the quality reports on Tundra...they should have stuck to small cars. Let’s just say, I hope you all have good warranties.


81 posted on 01/13/2009 12:33:53 PM PST by bronxboy
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To: MeanWestTexan

didn’t think you were joking. bottom line is the toyota’s seem to run forever.


82 posted on 01/13/2009 12:34:59 PM PST by Badeye (There are no 'great moments' in Moderate Political History. Only losses.)
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To: bronxboy
Also, profit is different than stocks...Americans buy stocks. Profits are generated by selling cars...the money goes home to Japan.

If an American owns shares in a company that makes a profit, then the value of his shares is going to increase. It doesn't matter whether that company's headquarters are in Tokya, Munich or Detroit.

83 posted on 01/13/2009 12:35:18 PM PST by Citizen Blade ("A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy" -Benjamin Disraeli)
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To: bronxboy

The path to socialist hellholism goes through bailouts, we’re engaging in socialism to save your company. GM screwed themselves. What’s unAmerican is thinking we should buy crappy products just because the company that makes it (not in America) is supposedly American. Buy quality, buy what fits your needs, don’t worry about who makes it. I buy American when it’s the best product for me, I buy not American when it’s the best product for me.


84 posted on 01/13/2009 12:36:56 PM PST by dilvish
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To: Badeye

After owning several Ford full size commercial grade products, you couldn’t pay me enough money to take any other brand in that segment.

F & E Series are without equal in the industry, period.


85 posted on 01/13/2009 12:38:26 PM PST by HamiltonJay
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To: bronxboy

UAW workers aren’t Americans, as far as I am concerned.

They vote for Obama. They can go to hell.


86 posted on 01/13/2009 12:43:21 PM PST by MeanWestTexan (Beware Obama's Reichstag fire.)
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To: HamiltonJay

My neighbor, and very good friend says the same about his F150.

I don’t need a ‘work truck’ however, so thats not a big deal to me. Light towing, as noted above, is about it.

I’m more concerned about head/leg room, mpg, and reliability.


87 posted on 01/13/2009 12:43:44 PM PST by Badeye (There are no 'great moments' in Moderate Political History. Only losses.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

I’d like to see another mfg buy the truck division-even Kia or Hyndai, but anyone who buys a business with UAW plants or contracts is putting a gun to their head. Too bad. Maybe they can buy the business and move production to the south (well for at least as long as the south is\are still “right to work states”).


88 posted on 01/13/2009 12:54:07 PM PST by mrmargaritaville
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To: Red Badger

I sold the first one (a ‘97) with 168K+ miles on it! Still running and pulling with all four tires!

I bought an ‘01 and have 76K miles on it, and hope to drive it another 100K or so!


89 posted on 01/13/2009 1:10:36 PM PST by trillabodilla (Jesus Saves)
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To: bronxboy

The best selling car in China is a Buick (made in China) that they don’t sell here in the US.

Read that again. That’s not a US-made Buick. They don’t even offer that model here in the US.

Not even the Chinese want to buy UAW-made products.

I don’t hate things made in America. Its just that American unions make shoddy, second-rate goods that I have to pay first rate prices for the privilege of being allowed to buy, whereupon my money goes to elect Obama. No thanks.


90 posted on 01/13/2009 1:11:38 PM PST by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: AirForceMom

There are many Darwin awards to be had when dealing with the public. I particularly like the folks that chase the bears to get their pictures....sometimes with their kids! And the sow with cubs no less!


91 posted on 01/13/2009 1:29:30 PM PST by mtnwmn (mtnwmn)
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To: MeanWestTexan
I prefer the Toyota over the F-150, because I want to buy American.

(Not joking.)

Not joking, just wrong.

My F-150 was built in Kansas City.

92 posted on 01/13/2009 2:03:10 PM PST by BlueMondaySkipper (Involuntarily subsidizing the parasite class since 1981)
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To: BlueMondaySkipper

Ford F-150s are primary assembled in Cuautitlan, Mexico.


93 posted on 01/13/2009 2:32:49 PM PST by MeanWestTexan (Beware Obama's Reichstag fire.)
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To: MeanWestTexan
Ford F-150s are primary assembled in Cuautitlan, Mexico.

I don't have the unit totals but it looks like they are assembled in the following factories:

Cuautitlan (Mexico)
Claycomo, Missouri (Kansas City)
Norfolk, Virginia
Oakville, Ontario (Canada)
Valencia (Venuzeula)

Mine was built at Claycomo (Kansas City)

94 posted on 01/13/2009 2:46:47 PM PST by BlueMondaySkipper (Involuntarily subsidizing the parasite class since 1981)
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To: BlueMondaySkipper

I suspect that is the order of units produced.

The ones in South America make a “F-200” or somesuch that is actually the F-150 of 10 years ago.

(I was a semi-major stockholder of Ford some years ago, and still get all their prospectus (prospecti?)).


95 posted on 01/13/2009 2:52:46 PM PST by MeanWestTexan (Beware Obama's Reichstag fire.)
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To: MeanWestTexan
I suspect that is the order of units produced.

I suspect it is alphabetical...

96 posted on 01/13/2009 2:59:39 PM PST by BlueMondaySkipper (Involuntarily subsidizing the parasite class since 1981)
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To: Red Badger
My last Dodge truck was a total piece of junk. You get what you pay for, and you're not getting much when you buy a Dodge. Yeah, it's got the Cummins, but a chain is only as strong as its weakest link, and in this case the Dodge truck is the weak link. I also have no love for Fords, having had three pieces of junk from them. If GM survives, I'll get a diesel half ton Sierra in 2015. If not, I'll buy a half ton diesel Tundra in 2015. That's when my 2001 Sierra will be 14 years old, and due for replacement.
97 posted on 01/13/2009 3:05:53 PM PST by AlaskaErik (I served and protected my country for 31 years. Democrats spent that time trying to destroy it.)
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To: MeanWestTexan

My initial research shows that the new F-150 is made in Dearborn and Kansas City, NOT Mexico.


98 posted on 01/13/2009 3:09:55 PM PST by BlueMondaySkipper (Involuntarily subsidizing the parasite class since 1981)
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To: BlueMondaySkipper

“I suspect it is alphabetical.”

Only if “u” comes before “l” in your universe.

Cuautitlan (Mexico)
Claycomo


99 posted on 01/13/2009 3:10:00 PM PST by MeanWestTexan (Beware Obama's Reichstag fire.)
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To: MeanWestTexan

Umm, Claycomo is referred to as the Kansas City plant


100 posted on 01/13/2009 3:11:44 PM PST by BlueMondaySkipper (Involuntarily subsidizing the parasite class since 1981)
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