Subaru Up 48%; Nissan Up 35%; Suzuki Down 23%

by Paul Niedermeyer

Published: May 3rd, 2010

subaru up 48 nissan up 35 suzuki down 23

These three are continuing the trend established some months ago: Subaru strongly outperforming the market; Nissan somewhat ahead of it; and Suzuki trailing it substantially. All Subarus were up except the Tribeca, which is clearly in its fade out period. The Outback was up 133%.

Nissan showed the most balanced increase, with the same increase for both cars (+34%) and trucks (+34%). All the cars did well, with Versa up 44%, Sentra plus 38%, Altima up 23% and Maxima up 25%. The Cube is selling decently at about 2k units per month. Truck sales were also up fairly evenly, with Frontier (+60%) and Rogue (+38%) being two of the stronger models.

Suzuki’s models all swooned, and the story would be a disaster except for the Kizashi, which posted a rip roaring 406 units sold.

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John Horner on May 04, 2010

Suzuki and Mitsubishi are dead in the US. They should give it up already and focus on the opportunities available to them in certain other markets. Suzuki could make more money opening a chain of Suzuki Method music schools than they are making trying to sell cars in the US.

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GarbageMotorsCo. on May 04, 2010

Suzuki needs to stick with bikes.

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