Ford Targets Sustained North America Profit as Trucks Change
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Ford Motor Co. wants to maintain record earnings in North America next year as analysts project that a transition to new F-Series pickups might trim production, the automaker’s president for the region said.
Large-pickup output at Dearborn, Michigan-based Ford may drop 8.5 percent in 2014, Barclays Plc said in an Oct. 25 report, citing an estimate from researcher IHS Automotive. The F-Series line has been the top seller in the U.S. for more than three decades and accounts for the bulk of the company’s North American earnings.