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Ford’s F-Series Pick-Up, a stereotypical man’s motor in almost every
sense, may be the single best-selling vehicle in the world - a view
underlined by the realisation that in the five months to May this year a
striking 352,000 were already snapped up by keen US buyers alone - but
in Europe these butch Pick-Ups simply didn’t sell. Until now, that is.
It is not a trend that has set the market alight yet, but at a time
when the UK’s previously sizzling market for Ford Transit-type medium
vans appears to have lost at least some stored up heat, AID reports
on one small but still bubbling sub-segment that still stands out as a
trend-bucking winner.
A sense of disappointment likely carried by this year's sudden cooling
of the UK’s previously buzzing market for both passenger cars and light
commercial vehicles lost at least some of its sting following news that
one lone vehicle sector, albeit a small one, is still riding against the
odds.
UK Pick-Up sales picked up where they left off from last year’s record
result, with five months sales topping last year’s comparative totals by
19 per cent following an even hotter 26.2 per cent sales surge during
May itself, according to SMMT data.
Put into perspective, May sales of the UK’s previously booming
Transit-dominated medium van segment – vehicles in the over 2.50t to
3.50t GVW (Gross Vehicle Weight) class - already trail last year’s
5-months sales levels by some 4.2 per cent after taking a steeper 10.1
per cent plunge during May itself.
By contrast, latest strong gains keep Britain’s still sizzling Pick-up
market remain on course for a likely 5th successive all-time record.
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