Add me to the list of those who have not seen one on the road yet....

 

I drive to San Diego from here in LB one a week and get back to San Fran almost every weekend, and I see them pretty often. At least a few per day locally.

These things blend into traffic like a double yellow line, so they don't exactly jump out at you (they look like an Explorer up front at a glance). The reason why there hasn't been more sightings perhaps?

 

I've seen so many of them....you'd think they were out for 6 months.

And I think that they look good....

 

Nah, I notice things like that. While I am driving, I scan over every vehicle in all lanes of traffic and I would notice something like that. One other thing, at the dealership that I always pass, they had the new F150 on a rotating platform to "show it off" which I thought was odd since I have never seen any dealership do that.

 

Most manufacturers consider a car sold when it's delivered to the dealer....so that doesn;t mean they were sold.

 

Really?

 

There's a plant that assembles them in Claycomo, Missouri, very near where i work. I started seeing them early this year, driven by plant management (I'm guessing by the plates) I thought they were damn ugly. They went from a box to rounded and back to a box.
Maybe it's one of those designs I'll have to see a few hundred times before i don't hate it.

 

I also work pretty close to Claycomo and I've been seeing them around for some time, too. The Escape was the same way - there were a bunch running around K.C. with manufacturers plates before they were even on sale to the public. I've probably seen a half dozen F150s with temp tags in the last week or two, so at least some of it is sales to the public. I've seen carrier after carrier going down I35. I actually think it's a pretty good looking truck.

 

I've seen a total of two now. I live in Dallas Texas. Your not going to flood the public road ways with new vehicles within a month, especially when your still ramping up and not at full plant capacity. It will take months or possibly even a year before we will consider the truck a normal sighting.

By any means the sales numbers for Ford this month will be a very small percentage of new F-150's. The majority will still be heritage F-150's and SuperDuty's.

It's been said by media that Ford sells more SuperDuty's than F-150's. Ford will definitely combine sales numbers of the new F-150 along with the heritage edition and for that matter the Super Duty's. "Ford F-Series the best selling truck like for 26 years straight". It's a great all encompassing marketing statement.

I've yet to see monthly sales numbers broken down by true half ton's or in overall manufacture numbers. It's always grouped by brand. Ford wins this way of compiling sales numbers hands down.

Funny how the people with blue blood in their veins cry fowl when someone combines Chevrolet and GMC sales numbers. The GM twins have much more in common or much more alike than the F-150 and the SuperDuty's. Just a small oversight.

But then again it's all about the marketing stance and Ford wins that one. It's all about how you slice the pie and time and time again the most accepted and market method is by brand.

 

I understand what you are saying.And Im glad you see that Ford 150/250 are both Ford products.As you know GMC/Chevy are to entirely different companies.Sure it is a technicality (man I hope I didnt spell that wrong its late and Im fighting a cold) but like you said "most accepted and market method is by brand"

(FWIW no flame not even a spark)


Z28Wilson

I cannot believe you havent seen any on the road?I see a poop load over here by Ann Arbor.?.?.?

 

The 250 and 350 are just heavy-duty versions. GM too has the 2500's and 3500's on top of the regular 1500's so what gives? What's wrong with making the HD's look different? At the end of the day, their lineup is comparable to that of Chevy or GMC.

I guess that's what you get when you try to market two trucks as two different brands with two different marketing ("Like a rock"... "proffessional grade...").

I've yet to see a new F-150 on the road. I've seen 2 while driving by the local Ford dealers lot a week ago, but they aren't there now. I'm assuming they were sold. There isn't that many here, but i'm sure they'll be everywhere in a couple of months.

 

I saw one parked tailgating at a Chiefs game in early August. It had Claycomo test plates on it. Seen it a few times actually.

 

Yup...

 

Pfffft. Sales record my booty...

 

I don't think GM even cares about this whole who sells more trucks by singular brand or type. They care about the bottom line, total sales, net profit. If GM had a full size truck based on the Silverado/Sierra for each division then the sales of the models may be down but total sales would be about the same. GM doens't care what brand it says on the grille, just the cash for the sale!