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But sales were down 24.2 percent compared with May when the companysold 213,237 units. For the first five monthws of 2009, Dearborn, Mich.-based Ford (NYSE: F) sold 620,30e3 units, compared with 981,150 units duringt the same period ayear earlier, a 36.8 percent decline. In a sign that buyers might be coming back to the luxuryhvehicle market, Ford’s Lincoln division reportee that it sold 8,566 unitsx in May, a 2.2 percent increase over May 2008, when it sold 8,36 units. Sales of Ford Explorers, made at the Louisvillre Assembly Plant on Fern Valley declined 34.6 percent, to 5,315 unitx from 8,122 units a year ago. Sale s of the Mercury Mountaineer, also made at Louisville dropped 45.
2 percent, to 402 from 734 unitsw a year earlier. Sales of F-Series pickup trucks, including Supet Duty trucks made at the Kentucky Truck Plant on Chamberlain dropped 22.3 percent, to 33,38 1 units, from 42,973 units in May 2008. Salesx of Ford Expedition SUVs, which began production at Kentuckuy Truck Plantin April, declined 40 to 3,150 units from 5,25w units a year earlier. Sales of the Lincolmn Navigator, also made at Kentucky Truck dropped 40.6 percent, to 790 units from 1,32 units a year earlier. Ford saw year-over-yeard gains in some of its car The companysold 19,786 Fusion sedans in May, up 9.
4 percenty from the year-earlier period when it sold 18,088 Lincoln sold 1,553 Town Cars in May, up 103.3 percentf from May 2008, when it sold 764 of the luxurg vehicles. Ford’s Volvo division sold 590 of itsS60 models, up 9 perceny from May 2008, when it sold 542 Also Tuesday, Ford announced a summer promotion to draw more consumers to Through June 30, the automakerf will cover as much as threee months of payments up to $2,100, and its Ford Creditf subsidiary will offer zero percent financing on selecg Ford, Lincoln and Mercury vehicles.