Ford to Take a Two-Week Breather From Super Duty Production
Said to be a by-product of the slumping real estate market, Ford has announced today that it will halt production of its F-Series Super Duty pickups for two weeks.
Starting October 8th, Ford’s Louisville, Kentucky truck plant will halt assembly, with a scheduled restarted slated for the 22nd of the month.
(Click on the jump to read more about Ford's reasoning behind the Super Duty stoppage.)
Though Ford’s sales numbers took a 20 percent hit last month, including a nearly 21 percent decline in truck sales, the automaker claims that the curtailed production is not a consequence of slow sales. Ford points to the reduction being accounted for in their sales plan for the fourth quarter of this year.
FoMoCo sales analyst George Pipas claims that the slowed production boils down to a question of controlling supply, telling Automotive News, “We are absolutely determined not to let inventories get ahead of demand for anything.
Comments
The Stig
Mr. Pipas should be a politician. That's some of the best doublespeak I've ever heard. They're not slowing production because of slow sales, but rather to control supply. Doesn't simple logic dictate that if those trucks were selling well, and were forecasted to continue to sell well, there wouldn't be a need to stop temporarily stop production?
Ducati Minor
Maybe Ford's feeling guilty about selling so many dinosaurs sucking more crude than the Saudis?
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