The Aluminum Ford F150 Sales Numbers since 2014 show that over the last three years, sales numbers have skyrocketed and the aluminium trucks outsold the previous steel truck by a huge margin. This was reported in an article in torquenews.com.
Ford Motor Company introduced the 2015 F150 in 2014 with a lightweight all-aluminium body and more powerful engine and the pickup truck went on sale at the end of 2014. Since then, the sales numbers continued improving with the current generation of the F150 outselling the 2014 model year by a bigger margin each year.
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Ford Motor Company does separate the F150 sales from the rest of the F-Series lineup. The article breaks up the numbers with input from industry insiders and provides a rough calculation of the numbers of F150 Ford sells every year.
F-150 plants production accounted for about 66% of total production while the plants that build the Super Duty accounted for the other 33% in 2014, 2015 and 2017. In 2016, there was a slightly larger ratio of half-ton to Super Duty, keeping a production mix of 70% F150, 30% Super Duty.
The analyst calculates a figure of F-150 sales for each of those four years a by using those production ratios and applying them to annual sales which is almost close to the accurate.Below table shows the calendar year, the F-Series sales total for that year, the half-ton-to-Super Duty mix for that year and the calculated rough number of F150 sales.
|
Year |
F-Series sales |
Super Duty mix |
F150 sales |
|
2014 |
743,851 |
66% |
490,942 |
|
2015 |
780354 |
66% |
515,034 |
|
2016 |
820,799 |
70% |
574,559 |
|
2017 |
896,764 |
66% |
591,864 |
There could be a slight variations with the actual numbers but, the they do give a close to accurate sales number for the F-150 trucks and show that the numbers have increased by more than a hundred thousand units annually since 2014. While most of the trucks sold in 2014 were steel, in 2017, they all became aluminium.
There are plenty of factors like fuel economy and engine power which drove the growth in the sale of F150 pickup trucks. But the lightweight aluminium body remains one of the key driving components in the growth. The aluminium-bodied Ford F150 and the newer aluminium Super Duty pickups are giving tough competition to the steel-bodied pickups from General Motors and Ram.
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