Today in an Associated Press article by Tom Krisher he discusses the "800-pound gorilla that nobody can stop." He is referring to Toyota, of course. Here are the Top Ten selling autos for September 2006 compared to Sept 2005:

1. Ford F-150 +1.7%
2. Chev Silverado Pickup +8.1%
3. Toyota Camry +3.9%
4. Toyota Corolla +9.6%
5. Honda Accord -18.1%
6. Honda Civic -12.%
7. Dodge Ram Pickup -29.4%
8. Ford Taurus +64.1%
9. Chevrolet Impala +0.8%
10. Nissan Altima -25.3%

"Sales of Toyota Tundra pickup soared 74% to 12,609 units, but they were still far below the industry leading Ford F-Seris, with 70,822 units sold and the Chevrolet Silverado, with 51,964." "...Honda had good news in the truck segment, with sales rising 11.6 percent." "Nissan ...and a 2.7 percnet increase for trucks."

As I mentioned in an earlier post, Nissan Trucks are a drop in the Truck bucket when compared to Ford and Chevrolet.

Red

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Nissan will never be a contender unless they actually buy one of the big 3 manufacturers. It's not unheard of in other industries, anyone ever wonder what happened to the Beech airplanes? They are now Raytheon. McDonald Douglas? They are Boeing.

So with the current state of the world economy and the $$ problems that the 3 big are dealing with there could come a day we'll all be driving Nissan F-150's. HAHAHA