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Posts regarding automobile sales in the United States of America, circa March 2008, can be read here... or here... or here.... or here. Why did March's American vehicle sales deserve so much attention? Basically because March sucked for automakers in the USA. Yep, it sucked. Stunk. Slumped. Rolled over and played dead. Felt bad. Was bad.Â
- U.s. Auto Sales By Brand - April 2012
Early reporting from Chrysler Group LLC started April 2012's U.S. Auto Sales By Brand rankings with a bang. The overall Chrysler family was up 20%, a figure which is substantially better than the industry average of approximately 2%. Ford's own...
- New Vehicle Market Share By Brand In America - April 2011
General Motors clawed back significant market share in the United States one month after a March in which the company's portion of new vehicle sales had dropped below Ford Motor Company's share. With one-fifth of all new vehicle sales in...
- Canada Auto Sales April 2010
One glance across the surface of Canada's auto sales results from April 2010 reveals a bad month for General Motors. And in a way, it was. I mean, General Motors sold fewer cars in April 2010 than General Motors sold in April 2009. That's bad,...
- Canada Auto Sales Facts And Figures From April Of '09
One predictable sign of rough times arises when business, governments, and even families begin to alter definitions or use new terms altogether. Nova Scotia has passed a bill that retroactively changes what a budget deficit really means, for example....
- April Sales Irony
American automobile sales people will soon be scratching the bottom of the barrel if things don't turn around. April was a terrible month for new vehicle sales. March was bad, too. February was worse than anticipated. What will May bring? Â The...
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U.S. AUTO SALES CONTINUE SLUMP
Posts regarding automobile sales in the United States of America, circa March 2008, can be read here... or here... or here.... or here. Why did March's American vehicle sales deserve so much attention? Basically because March sucked for automakers in the USA. Yep, it sucked. Stunk. Slumped. Rolled over and played dead. Felt bad. Was bad.Â
Is bad. Indeed, April wasn't forecasted to bring auto selling sunshine. The Numbers present few surprises; at least for those who've come to regard the mortgage crisis as calamitous. Take this post as a brief overview, more detail will follow. Thus, allow a general and wide-sweeping statement like, for instance: every American brand and American conglomerate suffered negative growth compared with April of 2007. In fact, you don't need to allow a general statement like that - it's just the truth.Â
Percentage drops and jumps for April 2008 reflect the increase in available selling days, 2 greater than last year. Toyota manifests this most prominently, with about 10,000 more cars sold but a 2.7% drop compared with April/07. Toyota works with big numerals, and having two extra selling days means their sales numbers needed to climb substantially higher than 10,000 vehicles.
General Motors was about 50,000 automobiles down, a 22.7% freefall. Ford's group of brands combined to sell 28,000 fewer vehicles than last April. Toyota, Lexus, and Scion climbed about 7,000 sales but suffered a 4.5% decline in the light of their daily sales rates. Chrysler/Jeep/Dodge, still 20% owned by Daimler (Mercedes-Benz), plummeted from 193,104 sales last April to 147,751 this April. Ouch.
It's ugly out there, buster. Nissan's head honcho, the man on top of a dominant European named Renault, believes things won't improve substantially in America until late 2009 or 2010. More detail regarding April will flow out of GoodCarBadCar very soon, but feel free to await (with appropriate levels of dread and angst) the release of May's numbers in early June.
- U.s. Auto Sales By Brand - April 2012
Early reporting from Chrysler Group LLC started April 2012's U.S. Auto Sales By Brand rankings with a bang. The overall Chrysler family was up 20%, a figure which is substantially better than the industry average of approximately 2%. Ford's own...
- New Vehicle Market Share By Brand In America - April 2011
General Motors clawed back significant market share in the United States one month after a March in which the company's portion of new vehicle sales had dropped below Ford Motor Company's share. With one-fifth of all new vehicle sales in...
- Canada Auto Sales April 2010
One glance across the surface of Canada's auto sales results from April 2010 reveals a bad month for General Motors. And in a way, it was. I mean, General Motors sold fewer cars in April 2010 than General Motors sold in April 2009. That's bad,...
- Canada Auto Sales Facts And Figures From April Of '09
One predictable sign of rough times arises when business, governments, and even families begin to alter definitions or use new terms altogether. Nova Scotia has passed a bill that retroactively changes what a budget deficit really means, for example....
- April Sales Irony
American automobile sales people will soon be scratching the bottom of the barrel if things don't turn around. April was a terrible month for new vehicle sales. March was bad, too. February was worse than anticipated. What will May bring? Â The...