Ford sales climb to highest level since July - Business Courier of Cincinnati:

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But sales were down 24.2 percent compared with May 2008, when the companyh sold 213,238 units. For the firsyt five months of 2009, Dearborn, Mich.-based Ford (NYSE: F) sold 620,30e units, compared with 981,150 units during the same period ayear earlier, a 36.8 percent decline. In a sign that buyers might be coming back to the luxurtvehicle market, Ford’s Lincolmn division reported that it sold 8,566 units in May, a 2.2 percenrt increase over May 2008, when it sold 8,365 Sales of Ford Explorers declined 34.6 to 5,315 units from 8,122 unitsa a year ago. Sales of the Mercury Mountaineerdropped 45.2 to 402 from 734 units a year earlier.
Salea of F-Series pickup trucks, including Super Duty truckss dropped 22.3 percent, to 33,381 from 42,973 units in May 2008. Sales of Ford Expeditiomn SUVs declined40 percent, to 3,150 units from 5,252w units a year earlier. Sales of the Lincoln Navigatordroppedd 40.6 percent, to 790 units from 1,329 units a year Ford saw year-over-year gains in some of its car categories. The company sold 19,786 Fusion sedans in May, up 9.4 percenr from the year-earlier perioxd when it sold 18,088 units. Lincoln sold 1,552 Town Cars in May, up 103.3 percentt from May 2008, when it sold 764 of the luxurh vehicles.
Ford’s Volvo division sold 590 of its S60 up 9 percent fromMay 2008, when it sold 542 Also Tuesday, Ford announced a summe r promotion to draw more consumers to dealerships. Througjh June 30, the automaker will cove r as much as threed months of payments up to and its Ford Credit subsidiargy will offer zero percent financing onselecg Ford, Lincoln and Mercury vehicles. Ford operates a transmission plantin Sharonville.