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  • William Maley
    William Maley

    By William Maley •

    Sales Figure Ticker: June 2018

      Half-way through the year, how are automakers doing?

    Companies (Quarterly):
    General Motors Co. - Up 4.6% (758,376 Vehicles Sold This Quarter, 1,474,170 Vehicles Sold This Year)

    Companies (Monthly):
    Mitsubishi Motors North America - Up 46.2% (11,149 Vehicles Sold This Month, 67,327 Vehicles Sold This Year)
    Mazda North American Operations - Up 20.4% (26,893 Vehicles Sold This Month, 163,924 Vehicles Sold This Year)
    Hyundai Motor America - Up 18% (63,256 Vehicles Sold This Month, 327,786 Vehicles Sold This Year)
    Subaru of America, Inc. - Up 15% (59,841 Vehicles Sold This Month, 322,860 Vehicles Sold This Year)
    Porsche Cars North America, Inc. - Up 8.3% (4,892 Vehicles Sold This Month, 29,421 Vehicles Sold This Year)
    FCA US LLC - Up 8% (202,264 Vehicles Sold This Month, 1,115,476 Vehicles Sold This Year)
    Jaguar Land Rover North America - Up 7.2% (9,335 Vehicles Sold This Month, 59,566 Vehicles Sold This Year)
    Volkswagen of America - Up 5.7% (28,941 Vehicles Sold This Month, 172,898 Vehicles Sold This Year)
    American Honda Motor Co. - Up 4.8% (146,563 Vehicles Sold This Month, 787,824 Vehicles Sold This Year)
    Toyota Motor North America - Up 3.6% (209,602 Vehicles Sold This Month, 1,189,312 Vehicles Sold This Year)
    Ford Motor Company -  Up 1.2% (230,635 Vehicles Sold This Month, 1,277,691 Vehicles Sold This Year)
    Nissan Group - Up 1.2% (145,096 Vehicles Sold This Month, 780,695 Vehicles Sold This Year)
    Kia Motors America - Up 0.8% (56,571 Vehicles Sold This Month, 293,563 Vehicles Sold This Year)
    BMW Group U.S. - Up 0.5% (33,553 Vehicles Sold This Month, 176,022 Vehicles Sold This Year)
    Audi of America - Up 0.3% (19,741 Vehicles Sold This Month, 107,942 Vehicles Sold This Year)
    Mercedes-Benz USA - Down 9.9% (29,125 Vehicles Sold This Month, 176,408 Vehicles Sold This Year)

    Volvo Cars of North America, LLC - 

    Brands (Quarterly):
    Buick - Down 12% (52,891 Vehicles Sold This Quarter, 109,695 Vehicles Sold This Year)
    Cadillac - Up 3% (39,222 Vehicles Sold This Quarter, 75,949 Vehicles Sold This Year)
    Chevrolet - Up 6.2% (528,100 Vehicles Sold This Quarter, 1,019,019 Vehicles Sold This Year)
    GMC - Up 6.6% (138,163 Vehicles Sold This Quarter, 269,507 Vehicles Sold This Year)

    Brands (Monthly):
    Acura - Up 3.5% (14,532 Vehicles Sold This Quarter, 75,949 Vehicles Sold This Year)
    Alfa Romeo - Up 121% (2,249 Vehicles Sold This Month, 12,265 Vehicles Sold This Year)
    Audi - Up 0.3% (19,741 Vehicles Sold This Month, 107,942 Vehicles Sold This Year)
    BMW - Up 1.5% (29,407 Vehicles Sold This Month, 153,386 Vehicles Sold This Year)
    Chrysler - Down 32% (13,484 Vehicles Sold This Month, 72,653 Vehicles Sold This Year)
    Dodge - Up 9% (46,387 Vehicles Sold This Month, 250,933 Vehicles Sold This Year)
    Fiat - Down 36% (1,426 Vehicles Sold This Month, 8,285 Vehicles Sold This Year)
    Ford - Up 1.1% (221,101 Vehicles Sold This Month, 1,227,422 Vehicles Sold This Year)
    Genesis - Down 50.7% (796 Vehicles Sold This Month, 7,262 Vehicles Sold This Year)
    Honda - Up 5% (132,031 Vehicles Sold This Quarter, 715,141 Vehicles Sold This Year)
    Hyundai - Up 19.6% (64,052 Vehicles Sold This Month, 335,048 Vehicles Sold This Year)
    Infiniti - Down 12.8% (10,698 Vehicles Sold This Month, 72,170 Vehicles Sold This Year)
    Jaguar - Down 20.1% (2,353 Vehicles Sold This Month, 14,787 Vehicles Sold This Year)
    Jeep - Up 19% (86,989 Vehicles Sold This Month, 495,022 Vehicles Sold This Year)
    Kia - Up 0.8% (56,571 Vehicles Sold This Month, 293,563 Vehicles Sold This Year)
    Land Rover - Up 21.2% (6,982 Vehicles Sold This Month, 44,779 Vehicles Sold This Year)
    Lexus - Down 2.6% (23,750 Vehicles Sold This Month, 135,000 Vehicles Sold This Year)
    Lincoln - Up 2.8% (9,534 Vehicles Sold This Month, 50,269 Vehicles Sold This Year)
    Mazda - Up 20.4% (26,893 Vehicles Sold This Month, 163,924 Vehicles Sold This Year)
    Mercedes-Benz - Down 9.7% (26,191 Vehicles Sold This Month, 158,848 Vehicles Sold This Year)
    Mercedes-Benz Vans - Down 9.7% (2,808 Vehicles Sold This Month, 16,910 Vehicles Sold This Year)
    MINI - Down 6% (4,146 Vehicles Sold This Month, 22,636 Vehicles Sold This Year)
    Mitsubishi - Up 46.2% (11,149 Vehicles Sold This Month, 67,327 Vehicles Sold This Year)
    Nissan - Up 2.5% (134,398 Vehicles Sold This Month, 708,525 Vehicles Sold This Year)
    Porsche - Up 8.3% (4,892 Vehicles Sold This Month, 29,421 Vehicles Sold This Year)
    Ram Trucks - Up 6% (51,729 Vehicles Sold This Month, 260,341 Vehicles Sold This Year)
    Smart - Down 44.2% (126 Vehicles Sold This Month, 650 Vehicles Sold This Year)
    Subaru - Up 15% (59,841 Vehicles Sold This Month, 322,860 Vehicles Sold This Year)
    Toyota - Up 4.4% (185,852 Vehicles Sold This Month, 1,04,312 Vehicles Sold This Year)
    Volkswagen - Up 5.7% (28,941 Vehicles Sold This Month, 172,898 Vehicles Sold This Year)
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    Robert Hall
    1 hour ago, ocnblu said:

    Well of course Chrysler and Dodge numbers are sad... it is a direct result of PRODUCT STARVATION.

    Oddly, Journey sales were up substantially, Caravan sales flat but solid, and they even sold 1 Avenger in June...wow...a new Avenger still on a lot 4 years after it was discontinued.

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    smk4565

    Fiat and Chrysler brand are dead.  They might as well close up shop with those.  Dodge is a rental car brand, which is fine, they probably make money doing it so there is a business case there.  

    What happened at Genesis?  Other than they need SUVs and a small car bad, because if you only sell big sedans, I guess you see a 50% drop as that market is tanking.

    As far as Buick goes, you have Encore and Envision have been around a little while, and Buick has a large sedan with LaCrosse that is tanking also.

    Case in point, Land Rover up 20%, Jaguar down 20% and that is with Jaguar now having 2 SUVs for sale, people just want these SUVs, not cars sadly.

     

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    9 minutes ago, smk4565 said:

    Fiat and Chrysler brand are dead.  They might as well close up shop with those.  Dodge is a rental car brand, which is fine, they probably make money doing it so there is a business case there.  

    What happened at Genesis?  Other than they need SUVs and a small car bad, because if you only sell big sedans, I guess you see a 50% drop as that market is tanking.

    As far as Buick goes, you have Encore and Envision have been around a little while, and Buick has a large sedan with LaCrosse that is tanking also.

    Case in point, Land Rover up 20%, Jaguar down 20% and that is with Jaguar now having 2 SUVs for sale, people just want these SUVs, not cars sadly.

     

    WOW, Explain please your Kool Aid brand of almost 10% down. ?

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    6 hours ago, dfelt said:

    WOW, Explain please your Kool Aid brand of almost 10% down. ?

    Still #1 selling luxury brand in 2018.  June 2017 was an all time record high sales month.

    And the GLE and GLS are dated and probably nearing the end of production.  They have new GLE, GLS coming in 2019, plus a new 2019 GLA and a GLB which will probably be a 2020 model.  People want the SUVs.

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    riviera74

    SUVs are rebodied pickup trucks.  Crossovers (or CUVs) are rebodied cars.  Please remember this.  Yes, we are in a time when CUVs and SUVs are kicking sedans' rear ends every day on the sales charts.  I wonder if that is sustainable if gas exceeds $4 a gallon again.

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    Robert Hall
    8 hours ago, riviera74 said:

    SUVs are rebodied pickup trucks.  Crossovers (or CUVs) are rebodied cars.   

    Not always.  Some SUVs are on SUV-specific platforms.   Like the Wrangler and Grand Cherokee.  Neither truck nor car based. 

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    I would think a better descriptor for the masses is BOF vs. UB. I think a lot of folk would say the Wrangler is akin to trucks since it is body on frame, while the GC is a unibody like CUVs are.

    I lump SUVs/CUVs together in one pot /  see little point in differentiating unless you are hauling a lot of weight.

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    2 minutes ago, balthazar said:

    I would think a better descriptor for the masses is BOF vs. UB. I think a lot of folk would say the Wrangler is akin to trucks since it is body on frame, while the GC is a unibody like CUVs are.

    I lump SUVs/CUVs together in one pot /  see little point in differentiating unless you are hauling a lot of weight.

    I would consider the GC an SUV since it is a RWD/AWD platform rather than a FWD/AWD transverse engine platform like CUVs tend to be. 

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    G. David Felt
    48 minutes ago, Cubical-aka-Moltar said:

    I would consider the GC an SUV since it is a RWD/AWD platform rather than a FWD/AWD transverse engine platform like CUVs tend to be. 

    I would agree with you on the distinction if it was not for the fact like @balthazar makes a point of lumping them all together as the bulk of society really does not care or know the difference you point out now. Like splitting hairs of a medium brown versus dark brown.

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    Robert Hall
    22 minutes ago, dfelt said:

    I would agree with you on the distinction if it was not for the fact like @balthazar makes a point of lumping them all together as the bulk of society really does not care or know the difference you point out now. Like splitting hairs of a medium brown versus dark brown.

    True, but I couldn't care less about the bulk of society, though...;)

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    3 hours ago, Cubical-aka-Moltar said:

    Not always.  Some SUVs are on SUV-specific platforms.   Like the Wrangler and Grand Cherokee.  Neither truck nor car based. 

    Likewise with the current and Future GLE and GLS which have a platform made specifically for SUV and couldn’t be used for a car or pickup.  Unless it was a Subaru’s Baja or Holden Ute style pick up I suppose.

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    Robert Hall
    9 minutes ago, smk4565 said:

    Likewise with the current and Future GLE and GLS which have a platform made specifically for SUV and couldn’t be used for a car or pickup.  Unless it was a Subaru’s Baja or Holden Ute style pick up I suppose.

    A Ridgeline style pickup based off the GLE or GLS would be interesting for Mercedes, likewise something like that for Jeep off the GC. 

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    daves87rs
    On 7/4/2018 at 11:36 PM, riviera74 said:

    SUVs are rebodied pickup trucks.  Crossovers (or CUVs) are rebodied cars.  Please remember this.  Yes, we are in a time when CUVs and SUVs are kicking sedans' rear ends every day on the sales charts.  I wonder if that is sustainable if gas exceeds $4 a gallon again.

     

    Depends on whether the economy is sliding or not.....if it is-oh yes they will...

     

    If by chance it does not, then I could see it go for a little while....

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