Sales: Pickup Trucks, March 2011

by Edward Niedermeyer

Published: April 7th, 2011

Even with Sierra sales added in, GM’s trucks just couldn’t keep up with the Ford F-Series juggernaut this month. Ram, meanwhile is playing a distant third and the Japanese entries might as well not even exist. On the other hand, when it comes to compact and mid-sized pickups (chart after the jump), the Japanese entries are doing quite a bit better. Unfortunately for them, the top three compact-mid pickups combined couldn’t match the F-Series last month. Big trucks still sell in big numbers…

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Bridge2farr on Apr 07, 2011

Radimus- GM Medium Duty is no more. They are not manufacturing ANY trucks. Done. Over.

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- PJungnitsch on Apr 07, 2011
  
  Trucks have been very heavily discounted by the big three in Canada for at least a couple years now, to the point where it doesn't really pay to buy used for anything vaguely new. Ten grand off on the website, before dickering, has been almost standard for a new F150/Silverado/Ram. So even with our higher gas prices the domestics have sold tons up here, IIRC a quarter of the F150's Ford made last year were sold in Canada.
  
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- Radimus on Apr 08, 2011
  
  Right. I didn't take a very good look at the websites I links. My bad.
  
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Obbop on Apr 07, 2011

Hanging onto the 2004 Silverado long-bed 4x4 until a heckuva deal on a Chevy long-bed cargo van creeps up and compels purchasing as an alternate abode. A V-6 will be fine. Driving minimized to evade the feeding too often of the 4.8L V8. Meticulously maintained and less than 70K miles with perhaps 4K added yearly. Hoping the selling price will meet or exceed the van's cost. A van will ease stealth vehicle living as decrepitness wraps its tingly-with-soon-to-be-last-gasp-for-airedness that accompanies old age for those gathered around the dumpster beating back the horde of younguns still out of work from the depression of 2007 to 2015 that worsened as the calender crept into the '30s and the Boomers departed and the elites owned 97 percent of the national wealth. And the leak from Japan's reactor core still defied valiant efforts at repair until an US Army private dumped in a bottle of Bars-Leak and a general took the credit. The end.

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