The Washington Post posted a piece about Ford sales relative to other manufacturers.
December sales of Ford cars and trucks shot up 33 percent compared with December 2008, solidifying the automaker’s primacy among Detroit’s Big Three.
Ford’s share of the U.S. market climbed 1 percent in 2009 to about 15 percent, the company said, marking the first year-over-year increase since 1995.
Ford car sales rose 42 percent, and truck sales rose 29 percent.
Chrysler said its December sales dropped 4 percent, which counts as a pretty strong month for the ailing automaker, which routinely was shedding 35 percent of its sales each month during the recession.
Of course Ford was the only American manufacturer to not sell out to the government. to me, that is sufficient explanation for the difference. But then too, I have always thought Fords were better cars. In this case, Ford just deserve our support for toughing it out. I will be very interested to see what Governmental Motors (GM) figures are the this period
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