DEARBORN – Ford’s newest vehicles – Fusion and Escape – set all-time monthly
sales records in March, driving Ford Motor Company’s best U.S. sales results
since May 2007.
“Customers are buying our all-new Fusion and Escape in record numbers, and we
are working harder than ever to keep pace with demand for these fuel-efficient
vehicles,” said Ken Czubay, Ford vice president, U.S. Marketing, Sales and
Service. “Full-size pickup demand continues gaining momentum, outperforming the
industry for the third consecutive month.”
Ford Fusion posted an all-time record monthly and quarterly sales volume in
March with 30,284 vehicles sold for the month and 80,558 during the first
quarter – crossing the 30,000 monthly and 80,000 quarterly vehicle sale
thresholds for the first time ever in Fusion sales history.
Escape had its best sales month ever with 28,934 vehicles sold. This 28
percent increase versus year-ago results marks the best sales performance since
Escape’s launch 13 years ago. Escape also posted record quarter sales of 72,983
vehicles, surpassing record third quarter 2012 sales of 72,908 vehicles.
Explorer’s March sales totaled 17,509, representing a 33 percent increase
over last year and its best monthly sales performance since the current model
was introduced in 2010. Explorer retail sales were up 42 percent over last year,
providing it best March retail sales performance since 2005.
With the industry’s March full-size pickup segment estimated to be up 15
percent over last year, America’s best-selling pickup, the Ford F-Series sales
increased 16 percent to 67,513 pickups in March. This was F-Series 20th straight
month of monthly sales increases and represented F-Series’ best March and first
quarter sales performance since 2007.
The company’s overall sales in March were up 6 percent with 236,160 vehicles
sold. Cars were even with a year ago, utilities up 14 percent and trucks up 6
percent.
Click here to view the Ford Motor Company March 2013 U.S.
Sales tables.
