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The F-Series And The Automotive Industry

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F-Series has been America's best-selling pickup truck for 37 consecutive years, and the best-selling overall vehicle for 32 straight years. The heritage runs deep as does the loyalty that consumers have for the brand of their choice. The company has been in business since 1903, so they have weathered many storms. Going through the Great Depression and the recent Economic Crisis of 2008, crushing all opponents in sales. Ford is the best of the big three auto companies because: they didn't take the bail out, world’s best-selling truck, and has had the same idea from the beginning. First, the fact that General Motors filed for bankruptcy and received unusual treatment during the process. The nickname Government Motors will certainly outlive …show more content…

The F-150 has become the king of trucks regarded "as much of a status symbol as they are a tool," said Karl Brauer, a senior analyst at Kelley Blue Book. More than 86,000 Ford F-Series trucks sold with price tags over $50,000, TrueCar data show: That's more than the combined sales of the next two top-selling models over $50,000, the Ram Pickup and the Chevy Tahoe. Does it really matter if Ford is the best seller? Yes, it does to some extent. Ford gets some good marketing mileage out of the best-selling nameplate sales crown. It would be a big coup if the Silverado managed to steal it, but that won't happen in the next couple years. GM will probably get to claim that it sold more full-size pickups, …show more content…

Ford Motor Company began a relentless drive to increase production and lower costs. Henry and his team borrowed concepts from watch makers, gun makers, bicycle makers, and meat packers, mixed them with their own ideas and by late 1913 they had developed a moving assembly line for automobiles. The assembly line is a series of workers and machines in a factory by which a succession of identical items is progressively assembled. This idea has been in every automotive factory for many

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