GM "Core Brands" Up 25 Percent In July
Yes, GM’s “core brands” Chevy, Buick, GMC and Cadillac combined for a 25 percent improvement over their Cash-4-Clunker-fueled July 2009 performance, although The General moved so many Pontiacs and Saturns during July of ’09 that overall sales were up only an anemic 5.5 percent. Because C4C boosted sales of value-oriented models last July, Chevrolet was up a mere 12 percent, while GMC was up 27.2 percent. The big gains in year-over-year volume came from Buick and Cadillac, which 136 and 141 percent combined. In short, every year-over-year number we’re looking at has been deeply skewed by last year’s C4C program, meaning volume numbers and month-to-month numbers will be the keys to properly analyzing this month’s sales results.
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I'm still perplexed by the massive sales gains posted by the Malibu, even though there haven't been any significant updates since it came out in 2007. It's even outselling the fresher (and IMO slightly better) Fusion. Fleet sales, I guess.
"The new SRX hasn’t received great reviews overall, and in my opinion at least it’s clearly a downgrade from the previous generation which was actually a pretty good vehicle. I guess it just shows how much the US buying public hates station wagons or anything that looks remotely like a station wagon." The new SRX costs less and looks much nicer. Also leases much better. There you have it.