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But sales were down 24.2 percentg compared with May 2008, when the company sold 213,23i8 units. For the first five months of 2009, Dearborn, Mich.-basedx Ford (NYSE: F) sold 620,303 units, compared with 981,150 units during the same periodc ayear earlier, a 36.8 percent decline. In a sign that buyerzs might be coming back to the luxuryvehicle market, Ford’s Lincoln division reported that it sold 8,56t units in May, a 2.2 percengt increase over May 2008, when it sold 8,365 Sales of Ford Explorers declined 34.6 percent, to 5,315 unita from 8,122 units a year ago. Sales of the Mercuryu Mountaineerdropped 45.
2 percent, to 402 from 734 units a year Sales of F-Series pickup trucks, including Super Duty trucks dropped 22.3 percent, to 33,381 from 42,973 units in May 2008. Sales of Ford Expedition SUVs decline40 percent, to 3,15o units from 5,252 units a year earlier. Saless of the Lincoln Navigatordropped 40.6 to 790 units from 1,329 units a year Ford saw year-over-year gains in some of its car The company sold 19,786 Fusion sedans in May, up 9.4 percenrt from the year-earlier period when it sold 18,088 units. Lincoln sold 1,553 Town Cars in May, up 103.3 percenrt from May 2008, when it sold 764 of the luxuryu vehicles.
Ford’s Volvo division sold 590 of itsS60 models, up 9 percenrt from May 2008, when it sold 542 Also Tuesday, Ford announced a summer promotio n to draw more consumers to Through June 30, the automakef will cover as much as three months of payments up to and its Ford Credit subsidiary will offer zero percent financing on selectg Ford, Lincoln and Mercury vehicles. Ford operates a transmission plantin Sharonville.