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Sep 3, 2008 5:28 pm US/Central

Ford Ranger Sales Up Despite Ford's Bad Month

ST. PAUL (AP) ― A slight uptick in the sales of the Ford Ranger pickups assembled in St. Paul were a bright spot in an otherwise bad month for the automaker.

Ford announced Wednesday that it sold 4,920 Rangers in August, compared to 4,783 in the same month last year. That's a 2.9 percent increase.

Overall, Ford-brand vehicle sales were down 26.2 percent in August compared to August 2007.

So far this year, Ranger sales are down 4.7 percent compared to 2007. It has benefited from getting better gas mileage than Ford's full-sized trucks, which have seen sales drop even more.

Ford has announced that the St. Paul Ranger plant will stay open until 2011, two years longer than it had once planned.

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