Word: forde
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...news organization. Detroit's automakers, for example, have a selective boycott of television. Since 1980 General Motors executives have refused to grant interviews to reporters from CBS's 60 Minutes or ABC's 20/20 because the networks will not allow the company to edit the videotapes. Ford generally limits interviews with television reporters to brief exchanges. A Ford spokesman claims that when the networks edit a longer interview, "questions and answers can be taken out of context...
Question: Which is the best-selling vehicle in the U.S.-the Chevrolet Cavalier, Ford Escort or Honda Accord? Answer: None of the above. A pair of pickup trucks, the Ford F-series and Chevrolet's C-series, outsell every passenger car on the market. Indeed, Americans are increasingly turning on to trucks. Says Chrysler President Harold Sperlich: "Car sales are good; truck sales are dynamite." U.S. automakers announced last week that some 3.8 million trucks have been sold this year, an increase of 33%, while car sales have risen...
...passenger cars. Many suburban housewives have fallen in love with minivans (estimated 1984 sales: 225,000), and thousands of yuppies are hooked on such off-the-road vehicles as the Chevrolet S-10 Blazer (sales so far this year: 130,727), the American Motors Jeep (79,807) and the Ford Bronco II (91,651). The fastest-moving truck of all is the small pickup. The nine different models of the compact carrier will have combined sales of 1.1 million this year, more than twice as many as in the record year...
...legend has it, a driver noticed it on the carrier truck, followed it to the dealer and bought the pickup on the spot. By 1978, every one of the 489,508 compact pickups sold in the U.S. was made in Japan. But Detroit has roared back. General Motors and Ford, which had been importing Japanese vehicles to sell under their nameplates, decided to enter the market on their own. Today GM, which has nearly half of the U.S. car market, also controls 20.6% of the compact-truck business. Ford is a close second, with 19.5% of truck sales...
...keep on truckin' profitably. "Chris Cedergren, the automotive-industry analyst for J.D. Power & Associates, a West Coast marketing and consulting firm, expects truck sales in 1985 to increase 4.7% more. Buyers will have an even greater assortment of models to choose from in coming years. Both GM and Ford will introduce minivans next year, while AMC and Chrysler are preparing pickups for the 1986 and 1987 model years. -By Alexander L. Taylor III. Reported by Meg Grant/Los Angeles and Paul A. Witteman/ Detroit