{"id":1627,"date":"2009-10-27T09:35:15","date_gmt":"2009-10-27T13:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=1627"},"modified":"2009-10-27T09:36:24","modified_gmt":"2009-10-27T13:36:24","slug":"ford-gains-market-share-while-bailed-out-counterparts-decline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/1627\/ford-gains-market-share-while-bailed-out-counterparts-decline\/","title":{"rendered":"Ford Gains Market Share While Bailed-Out Counterparts Decline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Ford abstained from accepting federal bailout dollars, <a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2009\/01\/13\/why-the-bailout-will-kill-good-business\/\" target=\"_blank\">observers rightfully worried<\/a> that it would suffer a competitive disadvantage compared to its new Obama-favored counterparts General Motors (GM) and Chrysler.<\/p>\n<p>But so far, a funny thing has happened thanks to American consumers.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB20001424052748703697004574495302675268402.html#mod=todays_us_marketplace\" target=\"_blank\">Ford has actually gained<\/a> in its share of American market sales, whereas GM and Chrysler have declined.\u00a0 According to CNW Marketing Research, Ford jumped from approximately 12% of domestic auto sales in the third quarter of 2008 to approximately 17% in the third quarter of 2009.\u00a0 In contrast, GM fell from approximately 27% to 22%, and Chrysler fell from approximately 8% to 6% during that span.\u00a0 The only other major automaker to gain in market share over the past year was Toyota, but its increase isn&#8217;t nearly as dramatic as Ford&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>Several factors may have contributed to Ford&#8217;s improvement, but Americans have sent a clear signal in rewarding it for righting its course the old-fashioned way, while rebuking GM and Chrysler for jumping onto the Obama bailout bandwagon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Ford abstained from accepting federal bailout dollars, observers rightfully worried that it would suffer a competitive disadvantage compared to its new Obama-favored counterparts General Motors (GM) and Chrysler. But so far, a funny thing has happened thanks to American consumers.\u00a0 Ford has actually gained in its share of American market sales, whereas GM and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[377,55,380,378,379,61],"class_list":["post-1627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-bailouts","tag-capitalism","tag-chrysler","tag-ford","tag-gm","tag-spending"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1627"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1629,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1627\/revisions\/1629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}