The new Maverick pickup is proving to be popular as the company reported they now have more than 100,000 reservations for the truck.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nDo you have a reservation?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
In addition to the news on the F-150 Lightning reservations, the company noted its recently introduced compact pickup, the Maverick, now boasts more than 100,000 reservations as well. California, Texas and Florida are the hot spots for the new truck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mustang Mach-Es continue to turn quickly on dealer lots with the first Mustang Mach-E GTs already sold in August, Ford noted. Mustang Mach-Es are now shipping with available Ford BlueCruise hands-free driver assist technology. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In addition to seeing improvements August versus July, the vehicles the company does sell, add more to its bottom line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ford\u2019s product shift away from cars to more AWD\/4X4 and higher trim series trucks and SUVs is showing results. The average transaction price hit a new record of approximately $50,800 per vehicle \u2014 a $9,700 increase over last year, the company reported.Additionally, the company\u2019s incentive spending as a percentage of average transaction pricing is the lowest of its major competitors at just 3.2 percent. This is down more than 7 points compared to year ago and a full point lower than the overall industry average.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
When it came to reporting its monthly sales, Ford focused on the positive in August \u2014 it was better than July. The company\u2019s retail sales jumped 6.5% compared to the previous month, but overall numbers were down 33.1% on a year-over-year basis, reports TheDetroitBureau.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4389,"featured_media":3736,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8,5,1347],"tags":[2456,2457,2459,364,2458,1392],"make":[],"post-state":[],"category_old":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208132"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4389"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208132"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208143,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208132\/revisions\/208143"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208132"},{"taxonomy":"make","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/make?post=208132"},{"taxonomy":"post-state","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post-state?post=208132"},{"taxonomy":"category_old","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/category_old?post=208132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}