{"id":989,"date":"2007-12-10T00:55:32","date_gmt":"2007-12-10T00:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.thesocialmedia.com\/petrol-head\/2007\/12\/10\/american-car-ma\/"},"modified":"2012-07-17T14:03:02","modified_gmt":"2012-07-17T14:03:02","slug":"american-car-ma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.thesocialmedia.com\/petrol-head\/2007\/12\/10\/american-car-ma\/","title":{"rendered":"American car makers to stop building large pick-up models"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.thesocialmedia.com\/petrol-head\/files\/2012\/07\/2008_f150_60th_01.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-full\" alt=\"2008_f150_60th_01\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.thesocialmedia.com\/petrol-head\/files\/2012\/07\/2008_f150_60th_01.jpg\"  style=\"float: left;margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px\" \/><\/a><br \/> Due to a big sales slump in November, Chrysler, Ford and GM have announced they will stop producing temporarily the large pick-ups in order to avoid having a whole stock of them.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, in November, large pick-up sales have decreased by 8.3% while the overall market has slowed down by 3%. GM has 5 months stock of the Silverado model while Dodge has 4 months stock of the Ram model.<\/p>\n<p>GM will stop production in the three factories where the Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra are being built in next January. Chrysler will stop the Warren and Fenton factories from just before Christmas to end of January and in its Mexican plant during the first two weeks of January.<\/p>\n<p>Ford hasn&#8217;t announced yet when it will stop the production lines. Perhaps the American car maker is still thinking about as the news might threat the launch of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.petrol-head.com\/2007\/11\/spyshots-ford-f.html\">new F150<\/a> model at the next Detroit Motor Show. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Due to a big sales slump in November, Chrysler, Ford and GM have announced they will stop producing temporarily the large pick-ups in order to avoid having a whole stock of them. 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GM has 5 months [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":351,"featured_media":4968,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,13,30,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chrysler","category-ford","category-general-motors","category-industry-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>American car makers to stop building large pick-up models - Petrol Head<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.thesocialmedia.com\/petrol-head\/2007\/12\/10\/american-car-ma\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"American car makers to stop building large pick-up models - Petrol Head\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Due to a big sales slump in November, Chrysler, Ford and GM have announced they will stop producing temporarily the large pick-ups in order to avoid having a whole stock of them. 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