Ford: US sales leap 64.8% in April
(CercleFinance.com) - Ford has announced that it sold a total of 197,813 vehicles in the US in April 2021, up 64.
8% y-o-y.
While passenger car sales were down 20.9%, truck sales were up 47.5% and SUV sales rose a specular 119.8%.
The US carmaker also reported record sales in the electric vehicle segment, with growth of 262% - or 11,172 electric vehicles sold, driven by the success of the Ford Mustang Mach-E, the F-150 PowerBoost and the Ford Escape.
The group also points out that sales figures for April 2021 are higher than those of April 2019 (+24%), i.e. before the Covid outbreak.
Despite these seemingly upbeat figures, the Ford share is down about 2% in early trading on Tuesday.
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