Despite only a slight increase in overall sales so far this year, it s a new day in paradise, some Ford Motor Co. dealers said Thursday.
Business for them has seen a dramatic uptick since the coronavirus pandemic shut down cities and dealerships across America. With safety protocols in place and used car prices up, new car sales spiked in the first quarter of 2021. Both our stores set records, said Chad Wilson, general manager of Wilson Ford in Saginaw and Midland Ford. We ve had the Midland store since 1991 and the Saginaw store since 2018. I don t know that we ve ever seen numbers like this.