Comments on: KBB/Carmax Announce Most Researched Vehicles Of 2008

By: Landcrusher

Landcrusher — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 06:16:47 +0000

JB,

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

By: thoots

thoots — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 05:31:08 +0000

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

By: Aren Cambre

Aren Cambre — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 01:59:41 +0000

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

By: eh_political

eh_political — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 01:43:17 +0000

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.

By: Detroit-Iron

Detroit-Iron — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 22:54:10 +0000

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.

By: Jack Baruth

Jack Baruth — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 21:39:31 +0000

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.

By: Robert Farago

Robert Farago — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 21:23:03 +0000

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)

By: chuckgoolsbee

chuckgoolsbee — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 21:08:47 +0000

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

By: carlisimo

carlisimo — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 20:56:17 +0000

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

By: 200k-min

200k-min — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 20:38:43 +0000

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

Oh wait, that’s a different list.

By: MrDot

MrDot — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 20:37:54 +0000

The MINI is as British as a pair of lederhosen.

At least the best GM model made the list.

By: John R

John R — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 20:29:12 +0000

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?

By: NickR

NickR — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 20:25:24 +0000

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.

By: tulsa_97sr5

tulsa_97sr5 — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 20:10:20 +0000

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.

By: hoax

hoax — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 20:06:01 +0000

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

By: Lichtronamo

Lichtronamo — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 20:03:32 +0000

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

Made by GM: Surprised?