August Car Sales: Essentially Same Old, Same Old
Toyota (TM) said Friday that August vehicle sales rose 17% from a year earlier and General Motors’ (GM) sales increased 3.9% as the companies said buyers looked to more fuel-efficient offerings. But Ford (F) sales dropped 11.6% and DaimlerChrysler’s (DCX) fell 3.2%.
Still, Ford outsold Toyota last month. The Japanese automaker had outsold Ford in the USA in July for the first month ever.
Double-digit drops in Dearborn are unsustainable, but Ford insists on doing things that seem deliberately designed to alienate their core customers.
UPDATE: In an e-mail sent out Tuesday morning (content isn’t posted to the web yet), the American Family Assocation’s Don Wildmon says that the organization’s Boycott Ford project is responsible for Ford’s falloff, and notes that “Homosexuals give Ford no public support despite falling sales due to (the) AFA boycott.” I’ve said before that I believe Wildmon’s boycott is misguided (and given the content of this post, which Wildmon surely is aware of, more than a little hypocritical), but if you’re Bill Ford you can’t just ignore it.
[…] As noted several times previously (here, here, here [4th item], and here), Ford needs to acknowledge (and has not) that it has a serious problem on its hands with a boycott by Don Wildmon’s American Family Association over its embrace of the gay activist agenda. […]
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