Ford outsells Toyota in April, GM reports better than expected sales, Chrysler down 48%

Posted: May 01, 2009

Filed under: Chrysler, Ford, GM, Industry News, Toyota

Sales of the Ford Fusion Hybrid helped FoMoCo grab a big slice of the U.S. market even as its sales dropped 32 percent. According to the Wall Street Journal Ford outsold rival Toyota for the first time in at least a year. Toyota’s sales fell 42 percent.

Domestic rival General Motors reported a sales drop of 34 percent in April, a decline that was better than analysts expected. Chrysler reported a 48 percent decline selling a total of 76,682 units.

Ford ended up selling 133,979 light-vehicles in April. Sales were up from the March to April period by a total of 2,878 units.

Ford said it sold a record number of Fusions with a total of 18,321 units sold.

2010 Ford Fusion Hybrid:

- By: Kap Shah

Source: MSNBC

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Great job for Ford for making their sales a bit high, because of product devlopment. Good thing they create an Hybrid vehicle because this will save a lot of money and shows lower depreciation rate compare to other normal gas cars.

mfh

GM's better that expected results are only because they turned up the fleet sales
only ! If you look at retail sales only they would be even worse than Chrysler! Look
at the numbers!

GMfan87

could you direct me to this source? the best place i've found to look at for auto sales statistics is wsj and they dont show details like that...