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U.S. Auto Sales Brand Results: February 2015 YTD
An unexpectedly strong winter impact slowed February 2015 auto sales compared with the expectations of forecasters but not in comparison with February 2014. The market jumped by more than 5% with the...
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February 2015 Full-Size Pickup Truck Sales Up 8%: GM Gains Plenty Of Market...
One year ago, when we began tracking the monthly market share movement in America’s full-size pickup truck sector, General Motors had just seen its February market share fall from 39% in February 2013...
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America’s 20 Best-Selling Vehicles: February 2015 YTD
After an especially strong start to 2015, Ford F-Series volume failed to increase in the United States in the second month of the year. The F-Series was outsold by GM’s full-size twins in February...
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Volkswagen USA’s Sales Decline Begins Anew In February 2015
The Volkswagen brand had arrested its sales decline in the United States. After 18 consecutive months of decreased year-over-year volume, Volkswagen sales increased in October, November, December, and...
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Chart Of The Day: Auto Brand Market Share In America In February 2015
Compared with the previous month, GM’s U.S. market share grew by more than half a percentage point to 18.4% in February 2015. During the same month-to-month period, Ford Motor Company’s share slipped...
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Cain’s Segments: Midsize Truck Sales In America In February 2015
General Motors has reported 28,218 sales of their new midsize trucks since the Chevrolet Colorado and GMC Canyon arrived late in September 2014. Sales of both trucks have increased every month since...
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Beyond Official: A 12-Month-Long 40K Sales Streak Proves Subaru USA Is...
It’s official: Subaru is now routinely the seller of more than 40,000 new vehicles per month in the United States. That’s an impressive achievement considering that in 2013, the company averaged 35,390...
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Dodge Dart Sales Are Actually On The Upswing
Often criticized for its poor performance in North American markets, the Dodge Dart has performed significantly better over the last five months, a period in which its midsize sibling, Dodge’s Avenger,...
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Hurry Up, Envision: Encore Isn’t Quite Able To Carry Buick On Its Back
What is Buick in America without the Encore, the automaker’s most disparaged product on these pages? Buick reported 16,114 LaCrosse, Regal, Verano, and Enclave sales in February 2014, a figure which...
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Chart Of The Day: GM’s Gradual Car Sales Decrease
GM passenger car volume decreased 15% through the first two months of 2015 in the United States, tumbling by more than 18,000 units, or 21%, in February alone. With vastly improved U.S. pickup truck...
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Is Infiniti Getting Back To Normal? Two Whole Consecutive Months Of YOY U.S....
Infiniti USA reported a 20% year-over-year February 2015 sales improvement, a gain of nearly 2000 sales during a period which saw Cadillac, Buick, Jaguar, and Lincoln sales decrease. Among premium...
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Volvo Moved More Wagons Than Sedans In Canada In February 2015
Volvo is having a hard time moving most of its wares out of the showroom in Canada, with its wagons being the silver lining to its cloud. Good Car Bad Car reports overall Volvo sales are down 16...
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Canada Auto Sales Recap: February 2015
FCA Canada outsold the Ford Motor Company by 3690 units in February 2015, stretching the company’s year-to-date lead over second-ranked FoMoCo to 7162 sales. Keep in mind, FCA (formerly Chrysler Group)...
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Cain’s Segments: Full-Size SUV Sales In America – February 2015 YTD
Sales of full-size, body-on-frame, pickup truck-based SUVs from volume brands are up 58% through the first two months of 2015. The Chevrolet Suburban and Tahoe, GMC Yukon and Yukon XL, Ford Expedition,...
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Cain’s Segments: Entry Luxury Sport Sedans – February 2015 YTD
Trivia time: which cars combined to sell less than half as often in the United States in the first two months of 2015 as the BMW 3-Series and its 4-Series two-door (and four-door) offshoot? The Audi A4...
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You’re Not Just Seeing Things: Mitsubishi Breaks U.S. Mirage Sales Record In...
Mitsubishi Motors USA broke its one-month-old, sixth-generation Mirage sales record in February 2015, soaring up to 1863 units, a 67% year-over-year improvement. The Mirage is a penalty box in the...
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Ford’s Graying Car Lineup Relying On Mustang To Boost U.S. Sales Numbers
Through the first two months of 2015, U.S. sales of non-Mustang Ford brand cars are down 2% to 91,026, a marginal loss of 1813 units. The overall Ford brand car lineup tumbled 6% in the month of...
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Cain’s Segments: Small Luxury Crossover Sales In The United States – February...
Sales of small luxury crossovers jumped 40% in February 2015 and so far this year are up 40% compared with the first two months of 2014. Subtract the newcomers from that equation and the continuing...
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Chart Of The Day: GM’s U.S. Sales By Brand Over The Last Decade
Two weeks ago we published a chart that showed GM’s decreasing passenger car emphasis over the last 14 months. Last Saturday, we showed GM’s annual U.S. sales volume by vehicle type. This week, we’re...
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Truck Sales: What Does “58 Consecutive Months Of Growth” Mean For The Ram P/U?
“Sales of the Ram pickup truck were up 7 percent in February; its 58th consecutive month of year-over-year sales gains.” – FCA US LLC press release, March 3, 2015. What do 58 consecutive months of...
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U.S. February Sales: Acura RLX Takes An Uppercut To Its Glass Jaw
Acura RLX sales plunged 53% to just 173 units in February 2015, the fifth consecutive month in which U.S. sales of Acura’s flagship sedan were chopped in half, or worse. Year-over-year, RLX sales have...
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