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

Posted: May 01, 2009
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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.

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- By: Kap Shah

Source: MSNBC


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  • GMfan87

    way to go Ford! maybe GM wasn't being as “overoptimistic” as everyone thought…

  • Allen

    Expected this, the new Fusion is a rather fine car, as will the upcoming Fiesta and Focus be.

  • 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…

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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.

  • http://www.performancemarket.com/makes/hyundai.html hyundai accessories

    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.