Who's got the Diesel Pick-up Market share??

[jwilliams3]

Wondering who is selling the most Diesel engine equipped heavy duty pick-up trucks?



Anyone have the numbers?



Thanks!

 

[Vaughn MacKenzie]

I searched the web 'til I was blue in the face once, and only learned that you can get the numbers if you subscribe to a certain market research group for like $200 a MONTH



Only thing is to hope you come across a publication that subscribes to the group and prints the results. TDR used to do this occasionally but have not for a long time. Not sure why.



Last I knew Ford was losing market share and it was roughly 30% GM, 30% Dodge and 40% SuperDuty in the diesel pickup segment.



Vaughn

 

[trqmnstr]

Who else? FORD! They could sell trucks without an engine and people would still buy them.

 

[Dieselnut59]

Who else? FORD! They could sell trucks without an engine and people would still buy them.

Yep... cause the cheapest bid gets the sale, especially on government and big company purchases. You get what you pay for. I don't want a cheap engine! (or truck) Plus, brand f and c both offer a TRUE crew cab and a cab/chassis and a larger than 3500 truck, along with three cab styles (reg, extra and crew) People who KNOW that paying a little more and sacrificing a cab configuration is worthwhile are the ones who buy Dodge, especially for the far superior engine.

 

[RustyJC]

Walk through an RV park and count the true crew cab diesel duallies. Brands F & C obviously are making hay while Dodge says there isn't a market for this configuration. I sacrificed the cab configuration I wanted to get the Cummins. Other people don't.



Rusty

 

[GFritsch]

Here is a site with an unbelievable amount of information on Diesel trucks, including marketshare.



http://ads. primediaautomotive.com/TRK/Diesel%20Market%20Study.pdf#search='diesel%20truck%20market%20share'



not sure why the link won't click, but it will work by cut and paste into the address bar.

 

[Doubleclutch]

If you build them to last forever, you don't have to replace them very often...

 

[CajunDieselMan]

Thanks for the link GFritsch, there looks to be a lot of info in the publication--it's 67 pages long. I'll take it in a chunk at a time

 

[CNeubauer]

I don't have any real numbers but around here when somebody changes brands in full size diesel trucks 75% are going to Dodge to get the Cummins, 15% are going from Chevy to GMC due to the ugly grills in the Chevy's and the other 10% is made up of everybody else. I think GM lost too many diesel truck owners with the 6. 5L who either went to Ford or Dodge and even after the Duramax put Chevy back in the diesel truck marke they haven't seen any reason to switch back.

 

[Hohn]

HOW about those comfy Chevy Seats??



The interior is so nice on the GMs that it's almost putting up with an infererior chassis and stuff.



And the D-max is no slouch in the BOMB department, either!

 

[Turbo Tim 1]

Around me it's almost all Fords. I'm almost surprised some of these guys know where to get diesel fuel

 

[FloridaEd]

I came across the sales figures a year or so ago. Ford diesel sales dropped, as I recall, about 20% with the 2003 models and has stayed down. GM picked up most of that share, again as I recall.



Ford was the leader in sales with GM and Dodge about even for the rest... something like 40%/30%/30%, if my memory serves me well.



Florida Ed

 

[AMink]

FORD! They could sell trucks without an engine and people would still buy them.

I thought that's what they do! :-laf

 

[rbattelle]

2005 through Sep.

Here's some statistics. For copyright issues I'd rather not say my source.



For 2005 through September the Ram, F-Series, Silverado, Sierra, Titan, Tundra, and Ridgeline:



Dodge Ram - 318812 units (-3. 2% from same period 2004)

Ford F-series - 694690 units (-0. 4% from same period 2004)

Combined Chevy + GMC - 757649 units (+9. 3% from same period 2004)

Nissan - 67605 units (+13. 6% from same period 2004)

Toyota - 91086 units (+9. 3% from same period 2004)

Honda - 25787 units (not available in 2004)



I'm sorry I don't have stats to be able to break down by 1500, 2500, 3500, etc.



If you add all that together you get the following market breakdown thus far in 2005:



Dodge - 16. 3%

GM - 38. 7%

Ford - 35. 5%

Nissan - 3. 5%

Toyota - 4. 7%

Honda - 1. 3%



On Edit:

The top 5 selling vehicles in the US in September:

1. F-series

2. Silverado

3. Camry

4. Ram

5. Accord



-Ryan