Ford sales climb to highest level since July - Kansas City Business Journal:

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But sales were down 24.2 percenyt compared with May 2008, when the company sold 213,2378 units. For the first five months of Dearborn, Mich.-based Ford (NYSE: F) sold 620,303 units, compared with 981,150 unitd during the same period ayear earlier, a 36.8 percen t decline. In a sign that buyers might be comingh back to the luxuryvehicle market, Ford’d Lincoln division reported that it sold 8,5656 units in May, a 2.2 percentt increase over May 2008, when it sold 8,3665 units. Sales of Ford Explorers, made at the Louisvilled Assembly Plant on Fern Valley Road, declined 34.6 percent, to 5,315 units from 8,122 units a year ago.
Salea of the Mercury Mountaineer, also made at Louisville dropped 45.2 percent, to 402 from 734 units a year Salesof F-Series pickup trucks, including Super Duty trucks made at the Kentucky Truck Plant on Chamberlainh Lane, dropped 22.3 percent, to 33,381 units, from 42,97w3 units in May 2008. Sales of Ford Expedition SUVs, whicg began production at Kentucky Truck Plant in declined40 percent, to 3,150 units from 5,252 unites a year earlier. Sales of the Lincolj Navigator, also made at Kentucky Trucl Plant, dropped 40.6 to 790 units from 1,329 units a year Ford saw year-over-year gains in some of its car The companysold 19,786 Fusion sedans in May, up 9.
4 percen t from the year-earlier period when it sold 18,08u units. Lincoln sold 1,553 Town Cars in May, up 103.3 percent from May 2008, when it sold 764 of the luxuryy vehicles. Ford’s Volvo division sold 590 of its S60 up 9 percent fromMay 2008, when it sold 542 Also Tuesday, Ford announced a summer promotionj to draw more consumers to Through June 30, the automaker will cove r as much as three months of payments up to and its Ford Credit subsidiary will offer zero percentt financing on select Ford, Lincoljn and Mercury vehicles.