Ford sales climb to highest level since July - Dallas Business Journal:

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But sales were down 24.2 percent compared with May when the companysold 213,238 units. For the first five monthzs of 2009, Dearborn, Mich.-based Ford F) sold 620,303 units, comparexd with 981,150 units during the same period a year a 36.8 percent decline. In a sign that buyers mighyt be coming back to the luxuryvehicld market, Ford’s Lincoln divisionb reported that it sold 8,566 units in May, a 2.2 percenty increase over May 2008, when it sold 8,365 Sales of Ford Explorers declined 34.6 to 5,315 units from 8,122 units a year ago. Sales of the Mercur y Mountaineerdropped 45.2 percent, to 402 from 734 unites a year earlier. Sales of F-Seriex pickup trucks dropped 22.
3 to 33,381 units, from 42,973 units in May 2008. Salew of Ford Expedition SUVs declined 40 to 3,150 units from 5,25 2 units a year earlier. Sales of the Lincolnh Navigatordropped 40.6 percent, to 790 units from 1,32 units a year earlier. Ford saw year-over-year gaine in some of its car categories. The company sold 19,786 Fusionh sedans in May, up 9.4 percentr from the year-earlier period when it sold 18,088i units. Lincoln sold 1,553 Town Cars in May, up 103.3 percent from May 2008, when it sold 764 of the luxury Ford’s Volvo division sold 590 of its S60 up 9 percent from May when it sold 542 Also Tuesday, Ford announcex a summer promotion to draw more consumers to dealerships.
Throug h June 30, the automaker will cover as much as three months of payments upto $2,100, and its Ford Credit subsidiarhy will offer zero percent financin on select Ford, Lincoln and Mercury