Just saw below Q1 car sales stats for Thailand. Kind of surprised to see that Mitsubishi still quite a bit ahead of Ford for pick ups. Thought that would change or maybe I read it incorrectly.

http://auto.sanook.com/52859/

Those figures are for March only, and the "pickup" numbers are actually pickups + PPV's inclusive.

Pickups only in Q1 looks like this:

Isuzu: 9417 + 11245 + 11647 = 32,309

Toyota: 7640 + 8134 + 10525 = 26,299

Ford: 2012 + 2093 + 2598 = 6,703

Mitsubishi: 1791 + 1733 + 2489 = 6,013

Nissan: 1794 + 1743 + 1768 = 5,305

Chev: 900 + 909 + 1233 = 3,042

Mazda: 480 + 455 + 598 = 1,533

Those figures are for March only, and the "pickup" numbers are actually pickups + PPV's inclusive.

Pickups only in Q1 looks like this:

Isuzu: 9417 + 11245 + 11647 = 32,309

Toyota: 7640 + 8134 + 10525 = 26,299

Ford: 2012 + 2093 + 2598 = 6,703

Mitsubishi: 1791 + 1733 + 2489 = 6,013

Nissan: 1794 + 1743 + 1768 = 5,305

Chev: 900 + 909 + 1233 = 3,042

Mazda: 480 + 455 + 598 = 1,533

Thanks for this. So the reason for Mitsubishi to be ahead of Ford in the other statistic is that the Pajero is selling really well?

Those figures are for March only, and the "pickup" numbers are actually pickups + PPV's inclusive.

Pickups only in Q1 looks like this:

Isuzu: 9417 + 11245 + 11647 = 32,309

Toyota: 7640 + 8134 + 10525 = 26,299

Ford: 2012 + 2093 + 2598 = 6,703

Mitsubishi: 1791 + 1733 + 2489 = 6,013

Nissan: 1794 + 1743 + 1768 = 5,305

Chev: 900 + 909 + 1233 = 3,042

Mazda: 480 + 455 + 598 = 1,533

Thanks for this. So the reason for Mitsubishi to be ahead of Ford in the other statistic is that the Pajero is selling really well?

Delivering well Let's not forget that these are all based on cars in actual customer's hands.

Not surprising the PJS is selling well. Not the prettiest but well equipped and priced. Ford and Toyota have been very nice to Mitsubishi. The New Fortuner is poorly equipped and just as awkward looking as the PJS. Meanwhile Ford cut the cheaper 3.2L Everest and continue with long delivery times for the T+.

Here's the PPV numbers:

Toyota: 2033 + 2613 + 4195 = 8,841

Mitsubishi: 1797 + 1752 + 2983 = 6,532

Ford: 283 + 496 + 585 = 1,364

Isuzu: 681 + 71 + 188 = 940

Chev: 140 + 67 + 78 = 285

However, Isuzu's Jan numbers were bumped by bookings made in the December rush (pre new tax system), and Ford took a big hit with the new taxes (150K price increase), plus they still haven't figured out how to deliver 3.2's to people as fast as anyone wants them.

I suppose the most important thing to any manufacturer is that they are selling everything they make. I doubt most of them have similar capacity to Toyota (aren't Mitsu the 2nd largest here?)