SUV Sales Up at Ford

Earlier this year the media reported that sales of the big truck-based SUVs were going into a nose dive. With sky-high gas prices, Americans were finally jumping off their humungous land yachts in fuel-efficient dinghies.

But now Ford Motor Corporation is reporting overall sales increases and sharply higher sales of its mega-SUV Ford Expedition and Lincoln Navigator (curb weight over 7,000 lbs).

Here are the sobering results.

• Midsize Ford Fusion (up 143 percent), Mercury Milan (up 67 percent), Lincoln MKZ (up 90 percent).
  
• Ford Escape surpasses 1 million sales milestone in October
  
• New Ford Expedition (up 41 percent) and Lincoln Navigator (up 44 percent)
  

The reports of the death of the SUV have been much exaggerated.