Officials at Ford Motor Co., the second-largest U.S. automaker, said that the carmaker's U.S. sales fell at least 10 percent in March as it sold fewer F-Series pickup trucks, Bloomberg reported.
They indicated that sales to individual buyers and to rental-car companies and corporate fleets have also dropped from a year earlier, noting that Ford sold 84,168 F-Series trucks in March 2006, the most in any month last year.
The officials also clarified that the automaker's U.S. sales for this year will fall in almost every month because the company is reducing sales to fleet customers, which get discounts for buying in bulk. Its sales slid 13 percent last month and 19 percent in January.
Ford Motor's U.S. sales drop 10% in March
