No matter who you were, 2008 was a horrible year economically and if you were in the auto industry you felt it more than anyone else. Further proving this fact, Ford has today announced that their hybrid sales are up 73% over last year.
Below David Finnegan, marketing manger for Ford’s hybrid division, comments below:
Hybrid customers increasingly are considering Ford. More than 60 percent of Fusion Hybrid sales have been from non-Ford owners, and more than half of those are customers coming from import brands, mostly from Toyota and Honda.
Of course, Toyota is still the leading hybrid car seller with 144,351 units sold for the first 9 months of 2009, as compared to Ford’s 26,016. However, this is certainly a good thing for the American auto industry and they are going to need all the good things they can get.
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Is this is the best Ford can do? Does Ford figure that there are enough patriotic citizens that they can get away with this?
Why are we still sucking up to less than seveny-five miles per gallon vehicles? Are all our R&D people bought and paid for? Apparently, the answer is yes.
This is embarrassing. This is America for God’s sake! We have the opportunity to be the world leader. Not the world follower.
I appreciate that Ford did not take the “bail out”, but to leave us with still no option but to buy foreign is sad, no it is pathetic.
The American flag is drooping rather big time… We are down the tubes thanks to the bankers…
God Bless Ford… I’m looking else where.
Sincerely,
Doc
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