DETROIT – Ford Motor’sAlthough sales declined by 6.8% last year compared with 2020, the automaker stated that it had made progress towards the end of the previous year to overcome disruptions caused in part by a continuing shortage of semiconductor chips.

Detroit Automaker announced on Wednesday it had sold 508,451 vehicles during the fourth quarter. That’s a 26.8% improvement over the third quarter. It also beat the industry’s drop of about 3% in three months.

Ford closed the year with 247,000 cars in stock. That’s 22,000 more than November, when there was a chip shortage that caused historically low inventory levels.

In 2021, 15.1 Million vehicles were sold in the United States, despite significant supply chain disruptions. coronavirusAccording to Autodata, pandemic is a serious problem. The slowest year of sales since 2012 was this.

Ford’s 2021 sales were 1.9million, a 6.8% decrease from the previous year. This maintained the third-place U.S. position. General MotorsToyota Motor which was dethroned by GM in U.S. sales after a 90-year run as the No. 1 American automaker.