While the trend in overall auto sales the past few months has been nothing to write home about (now subtracting a point from our PWA macro score), Ford’s F-Series truck sales have been nothing short of stellar.
While not itself a data point we score, we do acknowledge that — being the preferred vehicle of U.S. small businesses (the employers of 2/3rds of American workers) — F-Series truck sales results are in a real sense an economic indicator worth tracking.
Here’s Bespoke with the numbers (note present sales vs the ’08-’09 recession): click to enlarge…