* Illinois - Power Stroke vs. Cummins rivalry is atepping up to even bigger trucks
Warrensville,ILL,USA -Truck Yeah Jalopnik, by Andrew P Collins -19 May 2014: -- Ford and Navistar had been collaborating since 2001. Nav had the factory, Ford had the money, and they each got their own brand of medium-duty commercial trucks out of the deal. But Ford's broken off to go proprietary, and just like that former friends become rivals... The joint venture, "Blue Diamond Truck Company, LLC," produced Class 6 and 7 Medium Duty commercial trucks (bigger than a pickup, smaller than a semi-truck) sold as Internationals by Navistar and F-650s and F-750s by Ford. Navistar made the bodies and engines, each company did their own thing with cabs and design... The deal effectively made Ford into Navistar's biggest customer... For 2015, Ford's next-gen F-650s and F-750s will be made by Ford at their Ohio facility, with Power Stroke diesel engines from the company's plant in Mexico and no Navistar components whatsoever... Ford's new offerings look strong, but Navistar still has a big lineup of Cummins ISB engines in their International trucks which gives them a pretty deep following... Power Stoke and Cummins are both names with substantial weight in the diesel world, and once the 2015 Ford F-650 and F-750 drop they'll have a whole new market to fight over. I'll be curious to see what kind of impact the commercial-level popularity of one over the other has in the light-duty market, if any...
* Michigan - Construction recovery apurring medium-suty aales
(Photo Ford: 2015 Ford F-Series Super Duty)
Dearborn,MICH,USA -Work Truck -May 20, 2014: -- A recovery in the construction industry is powering increased demand for medium-duty trucks, which has led to increased sales, especially of Ford's F-750 Super Duty truck... Through April, Ford has seen a 2-percent increase in sales of Class 6-7 trucks, which represents the same growth rate for all of 2013. Ford held 30 percent of the market share in those classes in 2012, according to Todd Kaufman, marketing manager at Ford... Kaufman added, "and in the past eight months has seen medium-duty sales improve" ...Labels: truckmakers news USA and Canada
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