Table: August Car Sales: Ford, Toyota, Honda See Sales Boost; GM down 20%, Chrysler down 15.4%

Car Dealer Review ^ | 9/1/2009 | Cars

[wrrock]

DETROIT – The Cash for Clunkers program boosted sales at Ford, Toyota and Honda in August as consumers snapped up their fuel-efficient offerings, but rivals Chrysler Group LLC and General Motors Co. withstood another month of falling sales. See table of car sales for car manufacturers...

[Piranha]

Wow. It’s almost as if car buyers are taking a stand against GM and Chrysler as “government motors”.

[CA Conservative]

Wow, Hyundai and Subaru really shot up - 52% and 51.5% respectively.

[sr4402]

Automaker Aug. 2009 Aug. 2008 Pct. chng.
BMW Group* 24,373 30,968 –21.3%
Chrysler Group LLC 93,222 110,235 –15.4%
Daimler AG** 18,749 20,945 –10.5%
Ford Motor Co.*** 181,826 155,117 17.2%
General Motors**** 245,550 307,285 –20.1%
Honda (American)† 161,439 146,855 9.9%
Hyundai Group†† 100,665 66,195 52.1%
Isuzu – 289 –100%
Jaguar Land Rover††† 3,160 3,321 –4.8%
Maserati 127 182 –30.2%
Mazda 26,542 23,680 12.1%
Mitsubishi 6,813 9,200 –25.9%
Nissan‡ 105,312 108,493 –2.9%
Porsche 1,526 1,404 8.7%
Subaru 28,683 18,932 51.5%
Suzuki 5,749 6,083 –5.5%
Toyota‡‡ 225,088 211,533 6.4%
VW‡‡‡ 32,981 28,876 14.2%
Other (estimate) 384 524 –26.7%
TOTAL 1,262,189 1,250,117 1.0%

[rightwingcrazy]

Clearly, we need to send them more billions in stimulus. Better yet, Congress should pass an “ObamaCar” bill, mandating that everyone must buy a GM or Chrysler car, or pay a hefty fine for non-compliance.

[Zeddicus]

Notice how we NEVER hear any news about the financial status of Government Motors anymore?

And why should we? It just doesn’t matter. They can’t fail anymore - the .GOV will just continue to seal money from us at gunpoint to keep them afloat, no matter what.

We’ll never hear another word about GM’s financial state.

[Dr. Sivana]

Wow. It’s almost as if car buyers are taking a stand against GM and Chrysler as “government motors”.

It is also the expected result of killing dealerships, entire makes (Pontiac), going into bankruptcy, and overall cutting back on new product.

[chiefqc]

Boy “Mack Daddy the Zebra” and his change policy is really working well.

[11th Commandment]

HEY Wait... did the "government" tell us the C4C program was a success and GM was the second largest benefactor of the program despite the fact it did not have a model in the top ten? This doesn't ADD UP:

Top 10 New Vehicles Purchased

1. Toyota Corolla

2. Honda Civic

3. Toyota Camry

4. Ford Focus FWD

5. Hyundai Elantra

6. Nissan Versa

7. Toyota Prius

8. Honda Accord

9. Honda Fit

10. Ford Escape FWD

NOTE- NO GM MODELS

New Vehicles Manufacturers

Toyota 19.4%

General Motors 17.6%

Ford 14.4%

Honda 13.0%

Nissan 8.7%

Hyundai 7.2%

Chrysler 6.6%

Kia 4.3%

Subaru 2.5%

Mazda 2.4%

Volkswagen 2.0%

Suzuki 0.6%

Mitsubishi 0.5%

MINI 0.4%

Smart 0.2%

Volvo 0.1%

HOW DOES GM BEAT FORD?

[Texas resident]

Gee, I guess mugabe didn’t think we would remember that he took ownership of the car companies away from the legal owners and gave them to the union thugs. Then the word came out that they would use our taxpayer money to subsidize new car purchases. Then the word got out that they were mandated to destroy the used cars. And it dosen’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that after the program is over, the sales will drop like a rock. No thanks, mugabe, I chose to purchase from a non union company. Getting this government involved in a simple transaction just screws it up.

[deport]

Interesting numbers:

U.S. vehicle sales (all manufacturers have reported)

Automaker	Aug. 2009	Aug. 2008	Pct. chng.
BMW Group*	24,373	30,968	–21.3%
Chrysler Group LLC	93,222	110,235	–15.4%
Daimler AG**	18,749	20,945	–10.5%
Ford Motor Co.***	181,826	155,117	17.2%
General Motors****	245,550	307,285	–20.1%
Honda (American)†	161,439	146,855	9.9%
Hyundai Group††	100,665	66,195	52.1%
Isuzu	–	289	–100%
Jaguar Land Rover†††	3,160	3,321	–4.8%
Maserati	127	182	–30.2%
Mazda	26,542	23,680	12.1%
Mitsubishi	6,813	9,200	–25.9%
Nissan‡	105,312	108,493	–2.9%
Porsche	1,526	1,404	8.7%
Subaru	28,683	18,932	51.5%
Suzuki	5,749	6,083	–5.5%
Toyota‡‡	225,088	211,533	6.4%
VW‡‡‡	32,981	28,876	14.2%
Other (estimate)	384	524	–26.7%
TOTAL	1,262,189	1,250,117	1.0%

Numbers in this table are calculated by Automotive News based on actual monthly sales reported by the manufacturers and may differ from numbers reported elsewhere.
Source: Automotive News Data Center

Note: Other includes estimates for Aston Martin, Ferrari, Lamborghini and Lotus
*Includes Mini and Rolls-Royce
**Includes Maybach, Mercedes-Benz and Smart
***Includes Jaguar and Land Rover (through May 31, 2008) and Volvo
****Includes Saab
†Includes Honda Division and Acura
††Includes Hyundai and Kia
†††Tata Motors includes Jaguar and Land Rover as of June 1, 2008
‡Includes Nissan Division and Infiniti
‡‡Includes Toyota Division, Lexus and Scion
‡‡‡Includes VW, Audi and Bentley

[Moose4]

GM sells (sold?) more cars than Ford overall. But Ford was a big winner from C4C because the Focus is a good, solid, reasonably-priced little car, and the Escape is a good little SUV. We have a 2000 Focus that we bought used, and we test-drove it against a 2000 Chevy Cavalier...no contest. The Cavalier was a total piece of garbage compared to the Focus. Needs more power (ours has the anemic little base 110 hp four-banger) but the steering and overall construction is superb. If we could afford it, I’d be looking VERY hard at a Fusion right now.

GM’s small cars suck, to be blunt. Chrysler’s are worse, and it pains me to say that because I’m a huge Mopar fan. Ford has better ones, and the imports still rule the roost.

}:-)4

[discostu]

Because there’s a lot more to overall car sales than just the top 10 cars. GM is a HUGE company, bigger than Ford (up until Toyota passed them last year highest sales in the industry), with more models than Ford and higher overall sales than Ford. But if the trends continue that will end, Ford will eventually pass them just like Toyota did.

[sr4402]

My understanding is that there was an amendment that the C4C program only applied to U.S. Manufacturers (Ford, GM and Chrysler), but this was shot down by the Dems.

Thus the precious dollar did not help our ailing car manufactures; GM and Chrysler and their supporting industries. DOH!

[11th Commandment]

Ya, that would be the reason, but I ran some Excel scenarios and GM would have had to rule the 11 - 20 category. Therea re two problems with this:

1.) GM did not have enough qualified models

2.) The government screwed up and had the program in the middle of production model shift. Since GM was in Bankruptcy they were the most idol and could not get models to the dealers.

[discostu]

They wouldn’t have to “rule” 11-20. GM alone has dozens of different models on the market right now, the total vehicle market including all non-boutique manufacturers and ignoring motorcycles is well over 100 vehicles. The top 10 while interesting data really doesn’t tell much about overall sales. Post 11 has the August sales numbers, and while GM took a bath in year over year they still came close to a quarter million sales, it’s a sign of how big they were that they could smoke 20% of their sales and still move 245,000 units.

[AdaGray]

You got that right. I own a Chevy and will NEVER buy another GM car.

[11th Commandment]

Okay, I’ll do something rare on a posting board and admit my conspiracy theory is wrong. I think we have all grown here today, wouldn’t you say so?

[discostu]

I’m hoping not to grow, I’m a little above my target weight ;)