Projected Sales

zenboy99 said:

I've had several different salesmen tell me that the Mustang is set to break sales records for its specific class. Does anyone know numbers for backorders/purchases/projected sales for the year? What about production numbers?

My Dad is on one of the plans (A, X, etc) since he's a Ford employee, but 7 dealers in southern Wisconsin told me I wouldn't get a 2005 GT until at least February of 2005.

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Since the day it was introduced, the Mustang has lead it's sales category almost ALL of the 40 years it's been around. After all, the Mustang created the category.

The 2005 Stang will not be breaking any records.

Ford can manufacture a maximum about 195,000 of the new Mustangs per year. I'm sure that Ford will sell every one of them.

However, in the past Ford build and sold this many Mustangs:

1965 680,989
1966 607,568
1967 472,121
1974 385,993
1979 369,936
1968 317,404
1969 299,824
1980 241,064
1986 224,210
1988 211,225
1989 209,769
2000 202,990
2005 195,000 ?????


So tell your STUPID salesman to quit BSing you, The 2005 Stang will probably slot in around the 13th best year for Mustang sales.

Actually, production lines are shared between various models, including the Mazda 6. The other lines can easily be changed over as well. The number you have given is only a 'forecast'. Buy adding production lines and shifts, Ford could easily double that 'forecast' number. It's been done before - look at 'forecasts' for the first 2 years of the Mustang's history, and actual production - it exceeded 300% of the 'forecast'. Believe me, where money is involved, a company will hustle.

My local dealer has sold more Mustangs on pre-order (without a test drive!) than they have sold Mustangs in the last 2 years COMBINED!

So , yes, I'm going to say its going to be a banner year for the Mustang.

They can produce well over 200k mustangs...and i can almost guarantee they will because of one thing 'demand'.

kirkyg

QCStang said:

Actually, production lines are shared between various models, including the Mazda 6. The other lines can easily be changed over as well. The number you have given is only a 'forecast'. Buy adding production lines and shifts, Ford could easily double that 'forecast' number. .

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NOT TRUE.

There is ONLY 1 final assembly line at AAI. Mustangs and Mazda 6s are built on the same line. They come down the line mixed together 3 Mustangs then a Mazda 6, 3 More Mustangs then another Mazda 6.

The Maxium capcity of AAI is 282,000 vehicles per year. This is based upon 2 - 10 hour shifts per day. Production cannot be extended beyond 20 hours as the plant required 4 hours of maintenance per day which is done when the line is down.

I Mazda quit building the 6 and AAI built ONLY Mustangs, the maxium # of '05 Mustangs would be 282,000. This assumes that there not any production problems and ALL suppliers of Mustang parts and assemblies could up their production.

The only way to increase production #'s beyond that would be to build Mustangs at another assembly plant, and that ain't gonna happen.

Back in 1965 Ford increased Mustang production by building them in 2 more plants. But this was a different time and place. The 1965 Mustang was a re-skinned Falcon, so there was plenty of extra production capacity in place. and plenty of Falcom parts floating around as the Falcon was already 5 years old. The 2005 Mustang shares little with other FoMoCo cars so wi won't be easy to ramp up production beyond the AAI plant capacity.

it basically can't break its own record... to my knowledge... the 65-66 Mustang enjoyed the fastest launch in auto history. In each of those two years, Ford sold twice as many Mustangs as Honda does Civics today (and thats with 100 million fewer potential customers and in a "niche" market).