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September was a great month for Subaru, with the brand up 15 percent. Ford, Chrysler, Jaguar Land Rover and BMW also posted solid gains. General Motors,Hyundai/Kia, Toyota, Nissan and Honda saw declines, as the SAAR dipped to 15.3 million units amid decreased consumer and business confidence. Table below the jump.
| Automaker | Sept. 2013 | Sept. 2012 | Pct. chng. | 9 month 2013 |
9 month 2012 |
Pct. chng. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BMW division | 23,568 | 21,761 | 8% | 212,565 | 186,397 | 14% |
| Mini | 5,306 | 4,899 | 8% | 49,635 | 48,531 | 2% |
| Rolls-Royce | 84 | 79 | 6% | 756 | 711 | 6% |
| BMW Group | 28,958 | 26,739 | 8% | 262,956 | 235,639 | 12% |
| Chrysler Division | 25,251 | 24,850 | 2% | 237,746 | 241,466 | –2% |
| Dodge | 48,576 | 47,356 | 3% | 461,834 | 391,912 | 18% |
| Dodge/Ram | 77,145 | 73,770 | 5% | 731,130 | 611,272 | 20% |
| Fiat | 3,157 | 4,176 | –24% | 32,742 | 32,742 | 0% |
| Jeep | 37,464 | 39,245 | –5% | 355,385 | 365,190 | –3% |
| Ram | 28,569 | 26,414 | 8% | 269,296 | 219,360 | 23% |
| Chrysler Group | 143,017 | 142,041 | 1% | 1,357,003 | 1,250,670 | 9% |
| Maybach | – | 4 | –100% | – | 36 | –100% |
| Mercedes-Benz | 26,849 | 24,953 | 8% | 229,996 | 207,040 | 11% |
| Smart USA | 625 | 1,030 | –39% | 6,937 | 7,311 | –5% |
| Daimler AG | 27,474 | 25,987 | 6% | 236,933 | 214,387 | 11% |
| Ford division | 177,999 | 167,652 | 6% | 1,827,820 | 1,621,188 | 13% |
| Lincoln | 6,453 | 6,802 | –5% | 59,852 | 63,880 | –6% |
| Ford Motor Co. | 184,452 | 174,454 | 6% | 1,887,672 | 1,685,068 | 12% |
| Buick | 15,623 | 14,673 | 7% | 157,503 | 137,262 | 15% |
| Cadillac | 13,828 | 12,579 | 10% | 133,414 | 103,512 | 29% |
| Chevrolet | 127,785 | 149,801 | –15% | 1,493,329 | 1,420,383 | 5% |
| GMC | 29,959 | 33,192 | –10% | 333,213 | 306,558 | 9% |
| General Motors | 187,195 | 210,245 | –11% | 2,117,459 | 1,967,715 | 8% |
| Acura | 11,648 | 14,366 | –19% | 120,830 | 115,773 | 4% |
| Honda Division | 93,915 | 102,845 | –9% | 1,038,182 | 950,685 | 9% |
| Honda (American) | 105,563 | 117,211 | –10% | 1,159,012 | 1,066,458 | 9% |
| Hyundai division | 55,102 | 60,025 | –8% | 548,218 | 539,814 | 2% |
| Kia | 38,003 | 48,105 | –21% | 416,383 | 434,914 | –4% |
| Hyundai Group | 93,105 | 108,130 | –14% | 964,601 | 974,728 | –1% |
| Jaguar | 1,313 | 1,004 | 31% | 12,447 | 9,550 | 30% |
| Land Rover | 3,387 | 3,636 | –7% | 35,359 | 31,674 | 12% |
| Jaguar Land Rover | 4,700 | 4,640 | 1% | 47,806 | 41,224 | 16% |
| Maserati | 379 | 269 | 41% | 2,241 | 1,984 | 13% |
| Mazda | 22,464 | 24,135 | –7% | 220,490 | 209,481 | 5% |
| Mitsubishi | 4,001 | 4,806 | –17% | 44,981 | 46,122 | –3% |
| Infiniti | 9,040 | 9,445 | –4% | 80,919 | 86,596 | –7% |
| Nissan Division | 77,828 | 82,462 | –6% | 860,197 | 779,888 | 10% |
| Nissan | 86,868 | 91,907 | –6% | 941,116 | 866,484 | 9% |
| Subaru | 31,755 | 27,683 | 15% | 313,407 | 245,463 | 28% |
| Suzuki* | – | 1,921 | –100% | 5,946 | 19,149 | –69% |
| Lexus | 19,522 | 20,386 | –4% | 190,760 | 170,990 | 12% |
| Scion | 5,131 | 6,743 | –24% | 54,090 | 56,490 | –4% |
| Toyota division | 139,804 | 144,781 | –3% | 1,453,329 | 1,343,944 | 8% |
| Toyota/Scion | 144,935 | 151,524 | –4% | 1,507,419 | 1,400,434 | 8% |
| Toyota | 164,457 | 171,910 | –4% | 1,698,179 | 1,571,424 | 8% |
| Audi | 13,065 | 12,302 | 6% | 114,411 | 100,694 | 14% |
| Bentley | 253 | 239 | 6% | 1,859 | 1,644 | 13% |
| Lamborghini* | 46 | 44 | 5% | 414 | 388 | 7% |
| Porsche | 3,093 | 2,736 | 13% | 31,549 | 25,015 | 26% |
| VW division | 31,920 | 36,339 | –12% | 314,833 | 323,089 | –3% |
| Volkswagen | 48,377 | 51,660 | –6% | 463,066 | 450,830 | 3% |
| Volvo Cars NA | 4,188 | 4,977 | –16% | 48,193 | 51,626 | –7% |
| Other** | 253 | 246 | 3% | 2,277 | 2,209 | 3% |
| TOTAL | 1,137,206 | 1,188,961 | –4% | 11,773,338 | 10,900,661 | 8% |
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I wonder if a certain population segment “won” on this news.
Northwest hippies?
Yeah.
Mouth-breathing, knuckle-dragging homophobes? I don’t think so.
A little sensitive perhaps? Living in the PacificNorthwest, a bunch of the old self-righteous people who clogged the left lane in VW buses, Beetles, and 411’s now clog the left lane in Loyales, Legacies, Outbacks and Foresters. Smartass comments about Subaru drivers are not always about homophobia but more often about visibly poor driving behavior!
True, but that logic applies to other cars as well. I was just about to write on my Facebook page that Mustang, Camaro and Challenger drivers are generally inconsiderate. 3-Series and Escalade drivers will cut you off without warning. F-250/350 drivers will try and run you off of the road. And I have seen more women applying makeup whilst driving their late-model 4Runners than I care to count.
Growing up in Colorado, it was always noted that lesbians traveled in Outbacks. Interesting enough, talk about hate, they often had bumper stickers displaying their rage against and hate of traditional families on their Subaru. Such a loving bunch…
Funny, I’ve lived in Colorado for 18 years now, and I’ve never seen any gay people with “bumper stickers displaying their rage against and hate of traditional families.” Am I missing the rash of “traditional families suck” stickers?
Then again, I’m not able to discern someone’s sexual preference by the make and model of car driven. Apparently you can. Perhaps you missed your calling as a psychic.
Also Very true in New England. Most Sub’s I see have at least one social and political bumper sticker.
It was actually a sardonic reference to the previous editor.
I caught it.
Oh, Lord, not again…
Fiat’s YTD seems odd. Checked out Allpar and the same thing. Hard to believe.
500 2,126 4,176 -49.1% 28,994 32,742 -11.4%
500L 1,031 0 NEW 3,748 0 NEW
FIAT 3,157 4,176 -24.4% 32,742 32,742 0.0%
Has the 500 peaked already?
What do you mean, “already”? It took quite awhile for those eggbeater engines to revv up, before drivers realized pulling away from the curb wasn’t going to be so easy. At least the 1968 Beetle was quick for the first ten feet.
Is anyone aware of what a ridiculous amount of space all of your silly new social buttons take up?
IT has been notified.
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Thank you, these icons are so annoying, much cleaner and more inviting before, it’s like flooding the page with pop up spam now.
Look up Adblock+ and the “element hiding helper” plugins for your browser. They let you blow away specific elements of a page, like those button clusters. Awesome.
Preach it brother.
It does look a bit like the Olympics opening ceremonies or a Carnival Cruise ship coming into port
Yeah, why 2 sets?
We are missing a WUPHF button.
http://www dot youtube dot com/watch?v=ytc9-wGCHW0
These statistics could be much more interesting with some depth: why are GM sales down so much while Ford’s are up? Does TTAC have any model data, sales incentive info, fleet sales info to give some color to this? I feel like I’ve been told who won the ballgame last night without the box score or a decent game writeup. After all, what good is it to tell us these numbers, which can be found on several other sites?
What ever happened to NulloMundo? He could at least tell us what was going on in Fordland.
Edit: And yes I see the link to AN (where analysis is).
I’m sure NulloModo has moved on; car salesmen are notorious for jumping ship often. He may no longer be a salesman at all, at least in the car business.
try prnewswire
GM is my home-team, but I must admit that they ruined a good thing with the Malibu’s 2013 redesign, and the Malibu definitely was intended to sell in significant volume. I found the styling to be fine (if not exceptional), but rear accommodations are subpar and it just feels cheaper than it should. Even the hurried 2014 refresh can’t hide the fact that better can be found elsewhere, such as in crosstown-rival Ford’s portfolio. The Fusion stomps all over the Malibu. Don’t get me wrong, I’d still take a Malibu, but I wouldn’t pay Fusion money for it….
Agreed.
It’s the reveal of the new GM trucks. The sales of the old models usually drop off just before the new ones arrive at dealerships, but don’t worry, the December clearance sale will give GM a year-end bounce.
September 2012 had 25 sales days. September 2013 had 23, or 8% fewer days.
On a DSR basis, sales are up for the month, even though they fell in absolute terms.
More telling are the YTD figures. The first nine months of 2012 had 230 sales days, while the first nine months of 2013 had 229. YTD sales are up 8%.
I bet Toyota can make up for all those negative figures by claiming that they own parts of Fuji Heavy Industries. Full of win!!
One explanation I saw on goodcarbadcar.com for the overall decline in September was :
“Not only did America’s auto industry reap the benefits of Labour Day weekend sales in September 2012, last September also featured two extra days of car selling compared with September 2013. As a result, total sales are expected to fall from a volume perspective in September 2013 even as the auto industry sold more vehicles per day last month.”
Scion – dead brand walking (and Lincoln)
Volvo’s not so hot either, at least in the U.S. Looks like the bloom is off the rose for media darlings Hyundai and Kia.
VW’s plan for world domination has hit a snag, at least here.
Subaru is doing amazingly well, considering their rather limited lineup of cars. I took a trip to Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine a month ago, and Subarus are all over Vermont, just like everyone says. They’re common in northern New Hampshire as well.
New England is the reason Subrau managed to stay in the states lomg enough to be what they are today, back in the day we sometimes even got new england only models ( Ibelive the outback SUS was one of these. )
Subarus tend to be very popular in 4-season mountainous areas, like where I live.
We’ve got hundreds of them in my area, all years, all models. Somewhat odd actually since we have no Subaru dealer in my area, and the nearest one is in El Paso, TX, 90 miles away.
Yesterday I parked my car next to an almost pristine late 80’s Loyale. And the music store near my house has an employee who drives an early 80’s Leon.
That’s not just because of the AWD, but they don’t rust/melt as fast as most Japanese cars, especially Mazdas.
If the Outback sedan was ever New England-exclusive, it wasn’t for the entire length of its run; in 2003, certainly, I saw it in the showroom and catalog here in Maryland.
If VW’s sales continue on their downward trajectory, it seems like I should be able to snag a good deal in December when we plan to replace the wife’s Jetta with a 2014 Jetta. I noticed this morning that they extended their September incentives until October 2, which I thought was odd. But it makes more sense after seeing the sales data.
And yes, pretty much everyone in the Northeast drives a Subaru or knows someone with one. They’re all over the friggin’ place!
Too bad for Subaru they won’t do well in China. Japanese atrocities in WWII. Not rational I know. Meanwhile, Volvo doing badly in the USA, but roaring in China–up 40%.
Really?… and to think there are Jews driving Mercedes Benz
Jews must be more rational than the Chinese? Buy the car that’s best for you, regardless of national considerations–or ancient history. ;-D
Ancient history? There are quite a few Holocaust and Japanese ‘occupation” survivors who are still alive. I don’t know when something becomes “ancient history” but I am sure that it is not while the event is in living memory.
I won’t quibble about what’s ancient history. Not really in my main point. The main point is Subaru ain’t gonna sell many cars in China (WWII atrocities). And they don’t do that well in Japan, where the economy is stagnant. Their only growth market is the US.
Sarah Silverman had some music video that ended with her singing, “Why do Jews drive German cars…”
My uncle was killed by the Germans, but I hope that wouldn’t keep me from buying a German car. Wait, I owned a VW Bug in the early ’70s!
They were supporting an industry back home in which their former communities were deeply involved.
Keep in mind the Nazis were a 15-20 year plaque, but Jews in Germany were there for centuries…
Tell me about it. My wife’s father lost his family to the Nazis (he came to the U.S. in 1938 at age 21, and 5 years later was in the U.S. Army in Europe). His own father was in the German army in the Great War only a few decades earlier.
There is no unified Jewish attitude toward owning a Mercedes-Benz or any other German car; even my own family includes opposite extremes on this issue.
Bottom line, the Germans building Mercedes, Audis, BMWs, and VWs today were not even alive when these atrocities were committed, and are mostly ashamed that Germany ever participated in such a thing. That’s why I say buy the car that’s best for you, regardless of national origin, or history.
My wife’s grandfather told me recently he won’t buy a Japanese car because of his service in the pacific theater in WW2 he currently drives Korean cars for the last decade after being screwed by numerous Fords. some people hold to things more than we think. I’ve know him for 13 years now and if he hadn’t said that I would have never known.
Sounds like incentives are on the way.
It sure smells like it for VW. That’s shockingly -3% YTD volume.
VW has a couple problems: an old lineup of car models, and terrible dealer service. They really need to clean up the dealer network, or it will be three steps forward, two steps back, ad nauseum.
Yea Subaru is on fire. They sold as many cars in their entire lineup as Toyota sold Camrys
All I can say is, Whoop-DE-do for Subaru!
With a little work, I think you can turn that into a nifty limerick.
Why is it
Dodge/Ram
And
Ram
What category aren’t trucks?
I know I saw a Ram branded minivan a couple days ago, didnt know they even existed.
It probably has something to do with dealer obligations.
Interesting that subaru did so well in september, considering that one of their strongholds — colorado — was cast into oblivion by floods. I don’t think there were too many shoppers out and about…
On the contrary, lots of cars to replace in Colorado.
Boulder was one of the hardest hit areas, and it seems like practically every other car there is a Subaru. Definitely a business opportunity.
It seems to me that every other car in Boulder is a Volvo – from the 1980s. Maybe more opportunity for Subaru. :-D
yeah, going forward I agree, but in the teeth of a huge disaster like this, insurance cos take their sweet time… so i’m surprised that the volume was this high while the disaster was still ongoing
The northeast snow belt had a harsh winter last year, three blizzards in three weeks, after many mild winters. Nothing makes you yearn more for AWD than getting stuck in snow for the first time.
Does anyone know what happened with the Chevy Cruze? They sold 12730 units in September, which is the lowest month this year. VW even sold more Jettas @ 13309 units. Quite a change from selling ~32000 units in June.
In related news one of my local Chevy dealers is still trying to sell a “new” 2012 Cruze LTZ. They want just over $22000 for it (MSRP $24905). I tried to get a good price on it during the summer but they weren’t interested in making a deal. Wanted me to “come on down” to the dealership to talk about it. I declined. Glad we didn’t buy it because the Jetta has a much better engine now.
Low inventory of the Cruze due to previous month’s/months’ blowout.
Funny thing is that I haven seen less brand new Subaru’s in New England than ever before especially in Eastern Mass. There are plenty of older( 2+ years) Outbacks, Foresters and Impreza’s driving around but very few new models. Subaru must have expanded their market to other area outside of the traditional Northeast, Rocky Mountains, and Northwest regions.
Maybe it’s just a lineup of attractive new models selling outside traditional hotbeds of Subaru-ism?
They have. Here in Texas a Subaru was a rarity…I’m seeing more and more of them, especially the Outbacks and Forresters, and certainly in the urban areas (Houston/Dallas/Austin/SA).
We don’t deal with snow that much, but it’s a great car in the pounding rain. I’m impressed with mine and how little drama there is for the first 10 minutes of a storm when all the road oils come up. It just…goes.