Originally Posted by Rmay635703
Originally Posted by dave1251
Originally Posted by fdcg27
Come the summer of four dollar gas in 2008 and then the economic collapse, all those Walts wished they'd bought Honda Civics instead since they couldn't sell their pickups for anything near what they owed on them and they struggled to pay for the fuel to run them.
Dealers couldn't give trucks away, which made for a real buying opportunity for those with deeper resources.
It happened before and will happen again within the next couple of years.
This most have been in OH because in Southern California demand and price of full size pickups was at or near averages. If you are going to speak in biased absolutes it would be helpful to have facts to correlate your biases.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.pa...c1e-daae-5d27-b470-fcaf6074c6fe.amp.html
Ford had around 100,000 2007/2008/2009 model trucks sitting in storage lots, they eventually fire saled them 1-2 years later then dropped production levels.
http://www.autonews.com/article/20080624/ZZZ_SPECIAL/564990455
Their decisions were then heralded as being a triumph after the fact.
Just because something sells in small volumes at retail doesn't mean things were astounding or even average
Your story referenced the backlog of 2008's on the lot. 2009 was a new model it happens when you are talking about the best selling vehicle in America. Total sales from 2006 pickups comprised of 12.9% of vehicle sales. 2008 12.8% of vehicle sales. Hardly the mass sell off you and your counterpart state.
http://www.goodcarbadcar.net/2013/02/usa-2007-vehicle-sales-rankings-by-mode/