Ford Motor Company delivered its best August U.S. sales in nine years on strong demand for new cars, SUVs and trucks. Sales totaled 234,237 vehicles, a 5 percent increase.  Eric Merkle, Ford Sales Analyst, is here to explain.

Cut#1 ”We had our best retail sales month in August going all the way back to March 2006, so really strong performance for the month of August, on the part of Ford  Motor Company.” :10sec.

Improved availability helped make August the strongest sales month this year for F-Series. Ford also had their best month of Ford SUV sales in 12 years.

Cut#2 ”We just had a really good month on F-Series. We sold over the 70 thousand vehicle mark with 71,332 F-Series pick-up trucks sold, so we’re really starting to see the benefits from the Kansas City plant ramping up and also from improved inventory.” :19 sec.

F-Series delivered its best August sales results since 2006, with total sales of 71,332 – a 5 percent increase in sales versus a year ago. F-150 EcoBoost sales also have been growing, representing 63 percent of F-150 retail sales in August and an 86 percent increase versus EcoBoost sales a year ago.  

Cut#3 “Well EcoBoost in our new F-150 has just been incredible, it represented, in the month of August, 63 percent of our F-150 retail sales in August and that’s an 86 percent increase, our volumes are up 86 percent for EcoBoost F-150’s over a year ago.”  :18 sec.

Ford van sales continued to gain in August with 18,081 vehicles sold, a 70 percent increase.  This represents Ford’s best August van performance since 1994.

Cut#4 “Well Transit and the Transit Connect have really been performing so well for us.  The new Transit is helping to boost our overall commercial van sales.  They were up 70 percent in the month of August, which gave us our best August sales month, going all the way back to 1994.” :15 sec.

August sales performance for the Ford brand SUV represents the best lineup since 2003.  

Cut#5 “We had good increases,  really good increase in Edge, which is turning really fast on dealer lots, Edge is up 36 percent, the new Explorer turning really fast, it was up 22 percent.” :11 sec.

Mustang sales increased 70 percent compared with a year ago.

Cut#6 “ Mustang continues to accelerate for us.  It was up 70 percent, compared to a year ago, with 9,997 vehicles sold, and it just continues, you look at Southern California retail sales        were up 70 percent, Northern California they were up 67 percent, and Florida really took off, the state of Florida was more than doubled in the month of August in terms of its Mustang sales.  Really excited about the performance that Mustang’s been providing for us in terms of our sales numbers.” :28 sec.

 Lincoln sales for the month of August were up six percent,  including Navigator and the Lincoln MKC.   

Cut#7 ”Now we estimate that the overall Luxury segment might have been off a bit, in the month of August, so we actually performed very well with Lincoln, given a really tough backdrop       in the Luxury segment.  Really to do that it was our newest products, things like the Navigator which was up 79 percent, just an incredible move for Navigator and MKC sales     increased 37 percent.  Our newest products especially on the SUV side, just really performing well for Lincoln right now.” :30 sec.