Worlds best seller is hated by the Environuts

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Our planet may be in trouble: according to Top Gear, the best-selling car in
the world is the Ford F-150 pickup truck. They are sold at an astonishing
rate of 107 every hour of every day of the year, which means two or three
went while I was composing this paragraph. Getting only 14/20 mpg, that's
not good news for anyone except Exxon and several dozen lucky Sheiks.

What's even more astonishing is the bulk of these sales are in North America
alone. Thank goodness for that--if the Chinese started driving and buying
these behemoths at the rate Americans do, well, it would be like a
global-environmental version of when everyone flushes their toilets at the
same time and the water mains all explode.



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And Mike:
With a few modifications you can get a lot better mileage.....
You can get high 20's MPG.....
I run a 5.4 Litre V-8 with tires one size larger, cold air intake, and
cat-back dual exhaust.
I was getting 21 MPG, but when I added a programmer my mileage increased
a lot more.
On a flat road at 50 MPH my mileage is at 30 MPG.  At 70 MPH it drops to
28 MPG.
I was able to firm up the shifting on the auto trans, change the shift
points, and correct my
speedometer.

Mike Hunter wrote:


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Truck buyers buy Ford trucks because the NEED trucks to be capable of doing
the  work they NEED them to do.   They don't buy them for the fuel mileage,
if that was their goal they would buy smaller trucks.   ;)




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Many buyers buy them as personal transportation rather than because
they need a truck to carry things.

Jeff



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Who knows why anyone buys what the chose to buy with their own money?
Perhaps you should do a survey of the worlds buyers if you want to know?
LOL



Many buyers buy them as personal transportation rather than because
they need a truck to carry things.

Jeff



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One doesn't have to do a survey to realize that a lot of people who
have trucks don't need them.

Jeff



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na, he is just another spamming troll with a Gmail address.


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Hey there, I drive an F-150 too... because I want to! Was just
wondering if you could share your setup, i.e., tire size, which cold
air intake, which cat back and which tuner you're using. I'm over 70k
miles so factory warranty is no longer an issue now.  Was also
thinking of getting hotter COPS on the plugs as well.

Thanks!
Matt

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Actually, the best selling car is for kids:
http://www.thisissouthdevon.co.uk/news/Best-selling-car-hit-family/article-=
1088245-detail/article.html

As far as vehicles that can be driven by grown-ups, Toyota Corolla is
#1.


If it took you that long to write the paragraph, you're slow.



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Actually, the best selling car is for kids:
http://www.thisissouthdevon.co.uk/news/Best-selling-car-hit-family/article-1088245-detail/article.html

As far as vehicles that can be driven by grown-ups, Toyota Corolla is
#1.
I don't know where they got their info. Must be from the same source that
told the newspapers (on election evening) that Dewey had beaten Harry S.
Truman....


If it took you that long to write the paragraph, you're slow.

Perhaps it took that long for him to dumb it down so people like you would
be able to grasp the meaning.




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I did not write anything.   What was posted was a quote, dummy and the
article referred to the worlds best selling VEHICLE not the best selling
car.     Not only is the F150 currently the best selling VEHICLE in the
world it has been for 32 years, thus far.




Actually, the best selling car is for kids:
http://www.thisissouthdevon.co.uk/news/Best-selling-car-hit-family/article-1088245-detail/article.html

As far as vehicles that can be driven by grown-ups, Toyota Corolla is
#1.


If it took you that long to write the paragraph, you're slow.



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Without citing the source, how would one know? You know what that
makes you? Plagiarizer.


What article? Just because something is in print doesn't make it true.


Not true. More corollas are sold than F-150s.

Jeff


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Not true. More corollas are sold than F-150s.

Jeff

Incorrect. Here are the top 10 sellers for the first 6 months of 2009.


      1. Ford F-Series: 179,632 6. Honda Civic: 118,459
      2. Toyota Camry: 150,242 7. Nissan Altima: 96,428
      3. Chevrolet Silverado: 149,949 8. Dodge Ram: 94,516
      4. Honda Accord: 131,043 9. Ford Fusion: 85,146
      5. Toyota Corolla: 121,643 10. Honda CR-V: 78,917




Gotta love google,

mike



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Mike wrote:

Those stats for are the US, not the world. Note how you claim that the
F-150 is the best selling vehicle in the world. And, the F-series is not
the same as the F-150 (there f-250s, f-350s, etc., too).

Jeff



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I suspect that the Ford F Series as a whole does outsell the Corolla
world wide. Might be hard to add up all the sales for both around the
world. But it is sort of meaningless. Neither is actually a single
model. And whenever Toyota claims the Corolla is the best selling car
of all time or even best selling nameplate of all time, I cringe.
"Corollas" are not comparable to Model T's or VW Bugs (the original,
not the current Bugette). While lots of cars called Corolla have been
sold, they are not at all the same, or even evolved from the same
platform. While a 1927 Model T had much in common with a 1908 Model T,
a 2009 Corolla has nothing in common with the original 1966 Corolla
other than the Model Name. And even claiming that "Corolla" is best
selling "nameplate" of all time is bogus. What ia a nameplate? Isn't
"Toyota" or "Ford" a nameplate? For years Ford sold cars as "Ford
Model T," "Ford Model A," "Ford V8," etc. Is this a lot different that
saying Toyota Corolla Matrix, Toyota Corolla Tercel, etc., etc.

Ed




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Depends of what one is referencing.   By far, the best selling single brand
vehicle is not a car, it is the Ford "F" Series.  The best selling SINGLE
model is the F150 and it has been for thirty two years.  If you doubt that,
search the US Department of Commerce site for the facts, WBMS

In ether case no CAR comes close to the total annual sales numbers for the
Fords, with the exception of the Silverado, which is second and also a
truck.




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Mike Hunter wrote:

Your suggestion stinks, because the DoC doesn't have the data of which
you speak. If I am incorrect, show the URL.


For the first 3/4 of 2009, over 260,000 Camries were sold, while less
than 230,000 Silverados were sold. So you're wrong about this, as well.
Camries are the second best selling vehicle in the US.

That's in the US. I don't know about the rest of the world.

Jeff



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On Thu, 1 Oct 2009 12:34:30 -0400, "Mike Hunter"


If the Chinese ever learn what they are missing, F150 sales
will skyrocket.

Lugnut

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Isn't Top Gear the same program that praises supercars like the
Bugattit Veyron? Two seats, no luggage room, and less that 12 mpg? The
Veyron makes the F150 look like the most sensible vehicle on the
planet.

Top Gear can be very amusing. It is also UK centric and routinely
makes fun of Americans. It also regularly deviates from reality.

Ed


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