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    By William Maley •

    Sales Figure Ticker: June 2017

      Summertime! Who is enjoying the rays of June sales? Who got burnt?

    Volkswagen of America - Up 15% (27,377 Vehicles Sold This Month, 161,238 Vehicles Sold This Year)
    Subaru of America, Inc. - Up 11.7% (52,057 Vehicles Sold This Month, 304,810 Vehicles Sold This Year)
    Audi of America - Up 5.3% (19,416 Vehicles Sold This Month, 102,971 Vehicles Sold This Year)
    Jaguar Land Rover North America - Up 3% (8,706 Vehicles Sold This Month, 56,504 Vehicles Sold This Year)
    Toyota Motor North America - Up 2.1% (202,376 Vehicles Sold This Month, 1,155,165 Vehicles Sold This Year)
    Nissan North America - Up 2% (143,328 Vehicles Sold This Month, 819,688 Vehicles Sold This Year)
    Mercedes-Benz USA -     Up 1.1% (32,328 Vehicles Sold This Month, 179,743 Vehicles Sold This Year)
    American Honda Motor Co. - Up 0.8% (139,793 Vehicles Sold This Month, 791,886 Vehicles Sold This Year)
    BMW Group U.S. - Down 1.2% (33,372 Vehicles Sold This Month, 171,291 Vehicles Sold This Year)
    General Motors Co. - Down 4.7% (243,155 Vehicles Sold This Month, 1,414,446 Vehicles Sold This Year)
    Mitsubishi Motors North America - Down 5% (7,625 Vehicles Sold This Month, 54,576 Vehicles Sold This Year)
    Ford Motor Company -  Down 5.1% (227,979 Vehicles Sold This Month, 1,301,102 Vehicles Sold This Year)
    FCA US LLC - Down 7% (187,348 Vehicles Sold This Month, 1,067,360 Vehicles Sold This Year)
    Kia Motors America - Down 10.3% (56,143 Vehicles Sold This Month, 295,736 Vehicles Sold This Year)
    Mazda North American Operations - Down 14.7% (22,342 Vehicles Sold This Month, 141,624 Vehicles Sold This Year)
    Volvo Cars of North America, LLC - Down 15% (7,303 Vehicles Sold This Month, 34,105 Vehicles Sold This Year)
    Hyundai Motor America - Down 19.3% (54,507 Vehicles Sold This Month, 346,360 Vehicles Sold This Year)


    Maserati North America, Inc. - 
    Porsche Cars North America, Inc. - 


    Brands:
    Acura - Up 23.7% (14,038 Vehicles Sold This Month, 73,871 Vehicles Sold This Year)
    Alfa Romeo - Up 2,725% (1,017 Vehicles Sold This Month, 3,717 Vehicles Sold This Year)
    Audi - Up 5.3% (19,416 Vehicles Sold This Month, 102,971 Vehicles Sold This Year)
    BMW - Up 0.4% (28,962 Vehicles Sold This Month, 149,086 Vehicles Sold This Year)
    Buick - Up 16.4% (19,299 Vehicles Sold This Month, 110,316 Vehicles Sold This Year)
    Cadillac - Down 11.8% (12,580 Vehicles Sold This Month, 72,073 Vehicles Sold This Year)
    Chevrolet - Down 6.4% (169,842 Vehicles Sold This Month, 968,882 Vehicles Sold This Year)
    Chrysler - Down 15% (19,741 Vehicles Sold This Month, 102,095 Vehicles Sold This Year)
    Dodge - Down 14% (42,550 Vehicles Sold This Month, 260,980 Vehicles Sold This Year)
    Fiat - Down 4% (2,242 Vehicles Sold This Month, 14,682 Vehicles Sold This Year)
    Ford - Down 5.4% (218,704 Vehicles Sold This Month, 1,244,765 Vehicles Sold This Year)
    Genesis - N/A (1,613 Vehicles Sold This Month, 9,919 Vehicles Sold This Year)
    GMC - Down 3.6% (41,434 Vehicles Sold This Month, 263,175 Vehicles Sold This Year)
    Honda - Down 1.3% (125,755 Vehicles Sold This Month, 718,015 Vehicles Sold This Year)
    Hyundai - Down 21.7% (52,894 Vehicles Sold This Month, 336,441 Vehicles Sold This Year)
    Infiniti - Up 11% (12,271 Vehicles Sold This Month, 79,143 Vehicles Sold This Year)
    Jaguar - Up 7% (2,946 Vehicles Sold This Month, 20,665 Vehicles Sold This Year)
    Jeep - Down 11% (73,153 Vehicles Sold This Month, 406,291 Vehicles Sold This Year)
    Kia - Down 10.3% (56,143 Vehicles Sold This Month, 295,736 Vehicles Sold This Year)
    Land Rover - Up 1% (5,760 Vehicles Sold This Month, 35,839 Vehicles Sold This Year)
    Lexus - Down 5.4% (24,395 Vehicles Sold This Month, 133,760 Vehicles Sold This Year)
    Lincoln - Up 5.3% (9,275 Vehicles Sold This Month, 56,337 Vehicles Sold This Year)
    Maserati - 
    Mazda - Down 14.7% (22,342 Vehicles Sold This Month, 141,624 Vehicles Sold This Year)
    Mercedes-Benz - Up 1.7% (32,102 Vehicles Sold This Month, 177,760 Vehicles Sold This Year)*
    MINI - Down 10.3% (4,410 Vehicles Sold This Month, 22,205 Vehicles Sold This Year)
    Mitsubishi - Down 5% (7,625 Vehicles Sold This Month, 54,576 Vehicles Sold This Year)
    Nissan - Up 1.2% (131,057 Vehicles Sold This Month, 740,545 Vehicles Sold This Year)
    Porsche - 
    Ram Trucks - Up 6% (48,645 Vehicles Sold This Month, 279,595 Vehicles Sold This Year)
    Smart - Down 44.5% (226 Vehicles Sold This Month, 1,983 Vehicles Sold This Year)
    Subaru - Up 11.7% (52,057 Vehicles Sold This Month, 304,810 Vehicles Sold This Year)
    Toyota - Up 3.2% (177,981 Vehicles Sold This Month, 1,021,405 Vehicles Sold This Year)
    Volkswagen - Up 15% (27,377 Vehicles Sold This Month, 161,238 Vehicles Sold This Year)
    Volvo - Down 15% (7,303 Vehicles Sold This Month, 34,105 Vehicles Sold This Year)

    *Mercedes-Benz's sales numbers include Mercedes-Benz vans.

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    A Horse With No Name
    44 minutes ago, Drew Dowdell said:

    As of 3:40 pm today... I rolled this out of the garage and addressed the issue.

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    My compliments sir, for choosing a GM vehicle to do so....I will buy Beer (or wine, IIRC you prefer wine to beer) next time I am in Pittsburgh...

    ...and thanks for posting that image...I am feeling better about life and believe it or not seeing that old Cadillac made my day!

    Make that two drinks then...three if you trade in the CRV!

    1 hour ago, riviera74 said:

    A question for all: which current (i.e. new) GM vehicle would you buy if money were no object?

     

    I will start: XT5 Premium Luxury or CT6 Platinum.

    I would buy a GMC 4WD pickup in white with a diesel/towing package...

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    ...and I would buy a nice AMERICAN made Airstream trailer to tow behind it...!

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    A Horse With No Name
    1 hour ago, Drew Dowdell said:

    Escalade Platinum or CT6 PHEV 

    Escalade Platinum is an extremely nice vehicle.

    Strangely enough, I ahve seen a bunch of late model Luxury SUV's doing pedestrian jobs lately.

    At my favorite lumber yard, gentleman was loading up a $100,000 plus Range rover like it was a Dodge D150...asked him why he was loading a $100,000 plus SUV like that and the gentleman said he had three of them...the other two were for regular use...

    Helping my friend Steve rebuild his deck, was picking up lumber at Lowes Sunday and a late model Escalade had ladders strapped to the roof and the gentleman driving it was picking up building supplies...politely asked the gentleman why he was using an Escalade in that manor and he replied that it was his wife's vehicle...my wife would string me up for that...!

    Left work today for a medical appointment, dropped back by my office before going to look at a side job...on the way back here, saw a late model Navigator delivering pizza in one of the poorest neighborhoods in town...(no kidding!)

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    1 hour ago, oldshurst442 said:

    Between those two choices...CT6 Platinum

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    These next few cars and trucks(if any) are what I would buy from GM.

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    Vsport

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    1000 HP Trans Am

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    Or the Exorcist....but I dont like this Hennessey fella! So I would rather give my money to Kevin Morgan.

    Plus, since I dont really like a Camaro, this way, its a Camaro without it looking like one and I get to save face. And yes, the 1000HP Trans Am belongs in my answer as I need to buy a Camaro from the local Chevrolet store for the conversion!!!

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    I dont think I missed anything.

    BUMP!!!

    Because my post got buried!!!

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    A Horse With No Name
    3 hours ago, Drew Dowdell said:

    Can you list which ones you think are on the chopping block?  I have my own ideas, but I wonder what yours are.

    Hopefully not the Impala...one of the nicest products GM currently makes.

    4 minutes ago, oldshurst442 said:

    @riviera74

     

    BUMP!!!

    Because my post got buried!!!

    That Cadillac looks awesome in white!

    Of all of the GM cars that need more love around here...the Camaro...

    I am really starting to like the side profile on it.

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    daves87rs
    On 7/5/2017 at 1:40 PM, Drew Dowdell said:

    Can you list which ones you think are on the chopping block?  I have my own ideas, but I wonder what yours are.

    Sure..the list does change a bit-helps I hear stuff out of the plants too...

    Impy- D Ham just dropped it (and also sending it to Korea, which didn't work out) Other production is dropping fast....

    Sonic- With the being the middle child here, I hear that the might be moving something else into the plant to build. And they shipped out the "next gen" prototype too......

    Either the XTS or CTS

    Buick Lacrosse

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    Just now, daves87rs said:

    Sure..the list does change a bit-helps I hear stuff out of the plants too...

    Impy- D Ham just dropped it (and also sending it to Korea, which didn't work out) Other production is dropping fast....

    Sonic- With the being the middle child here, I hear that the might be moving something else into the plant to build. And they shipped out the "next gen" prototype too......

    Either the XTS or CTS

    Buick Lacrosse

    Not a surprising list. I've made similar predictions.

    XTS is already confirmed as a goner after 2020. 

    CTS is getting a name change on the next refresh, so technically dead, but not really. Platform is another question, I haven't looked into if it is going on Alpha or Omega.

    Lacrosse, if it keeps the name, may live on.... on another platform.

    Impala, no surprise there if its main platform mate, the XTS is gone. 

    Sonic is Gamma... makes sense to build it with other Gammas (Trax / Encore / Spark) on a continent were small cars sell really well, so I would see that moving to Korea.  BUT, that is not the same as being dead in the US. Sonic has been in the top sales slot in its segment more than a few times. 

    I expect Regal production to move to China within 5 years. They have to keep building in that class for China alone.... I expect it to continue to be sold here too... doesn't cost that much to throw a couple Regals on the boat for every 10 Envisions they ship over.

    Cascada has got to be toast. Opel built, out of date, no place to call home, and poor sales. 

     

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    daves87rs
    44 minutes ago, Drew Dowdell said:

    Not a surprising list. I've made similar predictions.

    XTS is already confirmed as a goner after 2020. 

    CTS is getting a name change on the next refresh, so technically dead, but not really. Platform is another question, I haven't looked into if it is going on Alpha or Omega.

    Lacrosse, if it keeps the name, may live on.... on another platform.

    Impala, no surprise there if its main platform mate, the XTS is gone. 

    Sonic is Gamma... makes sense to build it with other Gammas (Trax / Encore / Spark) on a continent were small cars sell really well, so I would see that moving to Korea.  BUT, that is not the same as being dead in the US. Sonic has been in the top sales slot in its segment more than a few times. 

    I expect Regal production to move to China within 5 years. They have to keep building in that class for China alone.... I expect it to continue to be sold here too... doesn't cost that much to throw a couple Regals on the boat for every 10 Envisions they ship over.

    Cascada has got to be toast. Opel built, out of date, no place to call home, and poor sales. 

     

    Agree with ya...though I already thought the Cascada was dead....think I have seen like one in the last 6 months....

    I think people will be surprised how much may end of Chinese built....

     

    Still waiting for the move of the Cruze to Mexico...unless they want to keep bleeding money there...but At least the Nox/Terrain/Envision will end up there.....

     

    Hoping the "new" be lighter on it's feet, and the sport car it should have become...

     

    Though I hope rumor of a baby caddy will the Sonic's replacement....8)

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