Hoping for a deal on a new pickup truck? Inventory is piling up, and discounts could make a comeback.
An old, unwritten rule of car sales tells dealers and factories to work together to keep about a 60-day supply of each new vehicle on hand for sale, with another 15 days on order or in transit. That, the pragmatism says, means that dealers have the most color and feature combinations a buyer could want in easy reach. But they won’t have so many that they’ll need to discount them to sell them.
Ram currently has more than a 100-day supply of Ram 1500 full-size trucks on hand.Ford F,
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has more than a 90-day supply of its F-150…
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