2012 sales pick up where 2011 left off.

As expected, January 2012 auto sales rose, maintaining a trend that unfolded in 2010 and picked up in 2011. Volkswagen reported a sales increase of 47.9 percent, recording …

Industry sales jump by 14 percent over November 2010.

There isn’t anything pretty about statistical information. Unless you’re a statistician.
We’ve been reporting U.S. auto sales for several years now, in keeping with our “auto trends” theme. …

Will this be a December to remember?

Car dealer managers across the country have rethunk their year-end staffing strategies. Until recent years, December sales were among the lowest for the year. However, in 2009, December was …

Sales continue to rise for an industry in recovery.

Chrysler and Volkswagen paced October’s U.S. auto sales, rising 27 and 36 percent respectively. Together with all manufacturers reporting, sales rose by 8 percent for the month …

Korean models set the pace again.
Automakers doing business in the United States have tabulated sales for July 2011, with reporting data through August 1 included.
U.S. auto sales for July 2011 returned mostly flat although Hyundai, …

June sales recover, but still fall short of expectations.
Auto sales rose by 7 percent for June 2011, recovering from May’s decline, but still fell short of predictions. As expected, Toyota and Honda continued to feel …

Mulally shares marketing strategy with financial analysts in New York.
NEW YORK – The Ford Motor Company is in an excellent position to grow, with new products in place and many more on the way. Managers …

Chrysler Outsells Toyota and Honda.

RALEIGH, N.C. — As expected, May 2011 auto sales decreased for the month, reflecting ongoing supply problems in Japan following a devasting March 11 earthquake and tsunami. Toyota sales fell by …

The cut off date for recording April 2011 auto sales was May 2, 2011, and the news coming in today from most car manufacturers has been positive. As expected, sales rose for the month despite …

U.S. auto sales for March 2011 continue to show promise although the momentum seen in February seems to have slowed a bit. Higher fuel prices, global uncertainty and a tepid economic recovery are factors which …

The General Motors Company, the Ford Motor Company and Chrysler Group, LLC were able to see much good come from respective February 2011 U.S. auto sales data, as each automaker reported double-digit gains for the …

Behind the positive auto sales news for January 2011 lurks some important data consumers should know about. Specifically, manufacturer incentives are helping to attract customers, by offering shoppers price discounts or cut-rate financing in a …

U.S. auto sales data for January 2011 is in and the results are good: sales rose by 17.3 percent, with all three Detroit manufacturers reporting double-digit increases over January 2010. GM and Chrysler reported identical …

No sooner had the ink dried (or the post was published) on this morning’s article about GM possibly being the top selling automaker in the world comes word that Toyota, indeed, is still tops. But, …

Unless you’re a Big Six automaker, a top Korean make or one of the major German brands, your visibility in the U.S. market can be overshadowed by everyone else. That statement isn’t meant to take …

All sectors of the auto industry are on the rise and the German manufacturers are among the many companies benefiting from an improved 2010. In the U.S. market only Toyota and Suzuki experienced flat or …

Honda is staid, reliable and predictable while Nissan is risky, adventurous and forward thinking. In some ways, these same words can describe both automakers, who trail Toyota in U.S. sales, but have avoided and even …

With all other major car manufacturers registering significant year over year gains for 2010, Toyota’s every so slight decrease reflects a remarkably bad year for this once impenetrable automaker. Toyota brand sales fell by …

The two largest Korean automakers continue to make their collective presence known in the United States. Hyundai and Kia both recorded their best year for U.S. sales in 2010 with Hyundai selling 538,228 vehicles (up …

The Chrysler Group, LLC is back and in a big way. The automaker, seller of Dodge, Ram, Jeep and Chrysler branded products, sold 1,085,211 units for 2010, an increase of 17 percent over 2009.
Back Again

Chrysler’s …

Ford announced its 2010 U.S. auto sales data today, with few surprises attached with it. That’s because the automaker has met expectations which show Ford enjoyed the best year over year gains of any major …

General Motors is once again the top retailer of passenger cars in America, seeing its sales rise by 6.3 percent over 2009. Sales for its four core brands rose by 21.3 percent with Buick …

On Saturday we ushered in 2011, but as far as the U.S. auto industry is concerned, today is the final day of 2010. Or, at least the last day when sales can be counted for …

Come January 2011, General Motors could be making a surprise announcement and that news won’t have anything to do with its pending IPO, a proposed all-new car or the reopening of a shuttered North American …

As expected, October 2010 U.S. auto sales were up over October 2009, but down slightly from September 2010. Chrysler, Hyundai, Ford, Honda, Kia and Nissan were among the big winners. Toyota, still reeling from its …

As I was logging on to my press access page to at PRNewswire.com, I fully expected to find the first batch of U.S. auto sales data for the October 2010 sales period which includes sales …

Global automakers are relying on emerging markets to fuel sales, with China, India and Brazil among those countries growing the fastest.
Booming Sales
India’s auto sales are approaching 16 million units this year, but that figure includes …

September 2010 may prove to be the turning point for this lagging economy if U.S. auto sales data released today are any indication of such. Automotive sales have been weak for most of the past …

During the lowest point of the recession, some automotive industry analysts were declaring that the era of robust auto sales for the United States was over. After peaking at 17.4 million annual units sold in …

The on again, off again, on again and now stalled “Car Allowance Rebate System” or CARS has been deemed as a success, but that also depends on how you define the word success. As the …

How is this for an amazing bit of news?
Bankrupt General Motors, which has been losing market share like crazy since last year, nearly beat out Toyota during the first half of this year for global …

New Market For The Chevrolet Cruze
As far as good news goes, GM hasn’t been getting a lot of it lately. However, when reports of April 2009 auto sales came in for the Chinese market, that …

New cars sales for the third quarter were expected to be dismal and for General Motors that prediction has come to pass. However, when taking into consideration the company’s global sales, quarter over quarter sales …