Ford’s sales tank as Chevy makes a mockery of them

Fueled by the trouncing it is getting at the hands of Chevy in NASCAR, Ford Motor Co. said on Friday that U.S. auto industry sales to date in April were "terrible" as consumer confidence was hit by a slow housing market and rising gas prices. "This month is terrible," Ford chief sales analyst George Pipas said in an interview. "We are not even close to where we expected to be in April."