It’s no secret that the Ford Maverick is a conquest king, however the automaker has revealed different shocking statistics as a part of their September gross sales report.
Specifically, Ford mentioned greater than 80% of Maverick prospects are first-time truck patrons. That’s a formidable quantity and the automaker famous conquest prospects are coming from the Honda CR-V and Civic in addition to the Toyota RAV4.
The Honda defectors are attention-grabbing to notice as the corporate gives a unibody pickup within the type of the Ridgeline. Nonetheless, it’s actually no Maverick competitor because it begins at $38,800 and that’s costlier than some conventional full-size pickups.
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Getting again to the Maverick, it stays a scorching commodity because the truck solely lasts six days on seller heaps. The corporate bought 3,154 models final month and that brings their year-to-date gross sales as much as 51,802 models.
Talking of gross sales, the F-Sequence continues to be America’s best-selling truck as the corporate has bought 467,307 models year-to-date. That’s down 12.6% from this time final yr and GM lately famous of their third quarter gross sales launch that they’ve bought extra “full-size pickups than Ford in 2020 and 2021, and is on monitor to take action once more in 2022,” because of the mixed power of the Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra.
Placing vehicles apart, Ford bought 10,892 Broncos final month and 99% of them have been ordered upfront. Whereas that isn’t too shocking given the mannequin’s recognition, Ford famous that for the sixth straight month, greater than 50 % of retail gross sales got here from beforehand positioned orders.
