http://media.ford.com/newsroom/relea...?release=25114

Dec 06 sales were up 10.0% over last Dec. 11245 vs 10,226 for 2005

2006 sales were up 3.5% over 2005. 166,530 vs 160,975 for 2005.

I know this great news will chear up some of you that were feeling down about Nov 06 sales being lower than Nov 05

Keep in mind that this is sales and includes MY 2007, 2006 and a few 2005s

 

9064 mustang sold in Jan 07. This is 19% below last January sales and is also lower than mustang sales in Jan 05 (10285) and Jan 04 (9906)

http://media.ford.com/article_displa...&make_id=trust

My opinion is that the Ford Winter sales event with the incentives dried up some of the demand in January 07. I think this might have been the first sales event with incentives on the GT Mustang.

 

they need to do a low low finance rate again

 

I went back and compared Dec 06-Jan 07 sales to Dec 05-Jan 06 and Dec 04-Jan 04 sales.

Dec 06-Jan 07:20309
Dec 05-Jan 06: 21434
Dec 04-Jan 04: 23627

So the 2-month average for Dec 06-Jan 07 is 5.5% below last year and 14% below 2 years ago.

I guess this is to be expected on a car that has been out (and essentially unchanged) for over 2 years.

 

Their sales were also low due to a lack of rental car sales. Ford has decided to stop the onslaught of unloading cars onto rental places. That low sales number is probably a lack of sales of V6 models.

 

Makes sense to me.

 

Intresting numbers. Everyones numbers were down in Jan besides the GOD aweful Toyota and Diamler Chrysler.

 

I bought mine in December of 2006, but then they were practically giving them away ;o)

Mike

 

It's a shame, but the sales numbers will come back up. I will attribute slow Mustang sales to both the great incentives of December (though Fords interest rates are not bad right now) and that this car sells best when dry roads, warm weather and girls in Bikinis are more frequently sighted.