KBB/Carmax Announce Most Researched Vehicles Of 2008

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• Lichtronamo :
  December 29th, 2008 at 3:03 pm
  
  

  The Malibu is 17, uh (after the Accord, Camry and Altima)?

  Made by GM: Surprised?

• hoax :
  December 29th, 2008 at 3:06 pm
  
  

  Let’s clean up the list a little. Ouch, that looks pretty bad.

  1. Japanese
  2. Japanese
  3. Japanese
  4. Japanese
  5. Japanese
  6. Japanese
  7. Japanese
  8. Japanese
  9. Japanese
  10. Japanese
  11. Japanese
  12. American
  13. Japanese
  14. Japanese
  15. Japanese
  16. American
  17. American
  18. Japanese
  19. British
  20. German

• tulsa_97sr5 :
  December 29th, 2008 at 3:10 pm
  
  

  I think it’s interesting that 3 words are the underlined floating “Vibrant” ads, Ford, Chevrolet, and Altima. However when i hover over the word Altima I get a Malibu ad.

  Very interesting list.

• NickR :
  December 29th, 2008 at 3:25 pm
  
  

  I almost dozed off reading that list. However it just goes to show that if you are going to sell much of anything you’d better err on the side of ‘economy’ and ‘practical’.

  The only outlier (arguably) is the Mustang.

• John R :
  December 29th, 2008 at 3:29 pm
  
  

  If you want to be technical MINI is also German…

  Anyway, did anyone else hear a little “waa-waaa” noise when a GM vehicle eventually showed up?

• MrDot :
  December 29th, 2008 at 3:37 pm
  
  

  The MINI is as British as a pair of lederhosen.

  At least the best GM model made the list.

• 200k-min :
  December 29th, 2008 at 3:38 pm
  
  

  I would’ve thought the Sebring would be on that list.

  Oh wait, that’s a different list.

• carlisimo :
  December 29th, 2008 at 3:56 pm
  
  

  Domestic sales aren’t actually as bad as this list suggests… but maybe they’re all by people who don’t do their research?

• chuckgoolsbee :
  December 29th, 2008 at 4:08 pm
  
  

  An interesting journalistic exercise, and one I’m surprised that TTAC did not perform as the next logical step is to mirror that list with the top 20 selling cars of 2008.

  –chuck

• Robert Farago :
  December 29th, 2008 at 4:23 pm
  
  

  chuckgoolsbee :

  We can’t offer up the top 20 selling cars of 2008 just yet. But here’s something VERY interesting: the top 10 selling cars of 2007.

  I repeat, 2007

  1. Ford F-Series (690,589)
  2. Chevrolet Silverado (473,257)
  3. Toyota Camry (473,108)
  4. Honda Accord (392,231)
  5. Toyota Corolla (371,390)
  6. Dodge Ram (358,295)
  7. Honda Civic (331,295)
  8. Chevrolet Impala (311,128)
  9. Nissan Altima (284,762)
  10. Honda CR-V (219,160)

• Jack Baruth :
  December 29th, 2008 at 4:39 pm
  
  

  Well, I did my best to influence the results by searching for

  “topless woman lambo murcielago lp640″

  twice a day from Easter to Christmas.

  There’s a bit of self-fulfilling prophecy here: the kinds of cars most “researched” by people, particularly at sites involved with KBB or Carmax, are going to be vanilla people transporters with annoying, price-bitchy dealers.

  I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again, but today’s Honda Accord customer isn’t the descendant of the person who bought a ‘77 Accord in the face of conventionality and neighborhood respect; he’s the son of the guy who bought a ‘77 Granada because everybody else had one.

• Detroit-Iron :
  December 29th, 2008 at 5:54 pm
  
  

  It will be very interesting to see what the top sellers list looks like from the year when we finally found out at what point US demand for gasoline becomes elastic.

• eh_political :
  December 29th, 2008 at 8:43 pm
  
  

  Robert,

  Good call. The p/u truck buyers don’t look to Kelley’s for information. Impala is a fleet queen. For the prediction of average consumer behaviour, this does the job.

• Aren Cambre :
  December 29th, 2008 at 8:59 pm
  
  

  Hey, guys, ever heard of an HTML table? :-)

• thoots :
  December 30th, 2008 at 12:31 am
  
  

  Just looks to me like domestic buyers don’t do much research. Just like I’ve always suspected.

• Landcrusher :
  December 30th, 2008 at 1:16 am
  
  

  JB,

  I can agree with you on that one. But will the Japanese get complacent?

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