F-150 Takes Backseat to Camry in Cars.com American-Made Index
Posted on 30. Jun, 2009 by admin in Ford, MINI, Safety, SEAT, Toyota, Trucks/Pickups
The Ford F-150 has fallen out of the top spot of the Cars.com American-Made Index for the first time, displaced by the Toyota Camry.
Cars.com's American-Made Index highlights the cars that are built in the U.S., have the highest percentage of domestic parts — with eligible models having parts-content ratings of 75 percent or higher — and are bought in the largest numbers by Americans.
Why the change? The difficult sales environment and changes in cars'
domestic-parts content — both major factors in AMI rankings — play a large part.
The redesigned 2009 F-150 has taken a larger chunk — about 5 percent more
— of overall F-Series sales in 2009, Ford sales analyst George Pipas said. But
overall F-Series sales have tumbled nearly 40 percent year-to-date, and the
F-150 has seen a steady drop in its U.S.- and Canadian-made parts over the past
few model years. The Camry, meanwhile, has seen sales fall, too, but not nearly
as badly, and its domestic parts content is on the upswing. Those developments
led the Camry to edge out the F-150 by a small but decisive margin.
If you're only looking at domestic-sourced parts content, the F-150 doesn't even make the top 10 list of vehicles. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the Toyota Tundra has the highest U.S. parts content of any pickup, at 80 percent.
Check out the full results after the jump.
[Source: Cars.com]
