Not exact matches
More important, Ford notes that retail
sales of the Escape rose 23 percent year - over-year, signaling more of the crossovers are going to customers
rather than
fleet companies.
Most of the Ford Focus Electric
sales to date have been to retail customers
rather than
fleet customers.
«We have strategically decided to reduce car production
rather than increase incentive spending or dump vehicles into daily rental
fleets, like some of our competitors,» said Kurt McNeil, U.S. vice president of
Sales Operations.
The flat,
fleet - wide approach encouraged automakers to increase production and
sale of smaller vehicles to offset the
sale of larger, more profitable vehicles
rather than improve fuel economy across all vehicle types.