U.S. Auto Market Share – July 2014

by Timothy Cain

August 1st, 2014 9:13 PM

General Motors’ U.S. market share held steady at 17.8% in July compared with the same period one year ago. In comparison with June of this year, however, GM’s portion slid from 18.8%. GM’s volume fell 4.2% from 267,461 in June to 256,160 units in July even as overall new vehicle sales grew 1%.

Moving ahead from June then, which automakers produced the gains at GM’s expense, at Ford’s and Chrysler/FCA’s expense, too? Toyota and Nissan, mostly. With a nearly one percentage point increase, Toyota produced a very high-volume July thanks to record RAV4 sales, predictably lofty Camry volume, and Lexus’ rise to the top of the premium pile.

Nissan owned 7.7% of the U.S. market in June; 8.3% in July. The Versa, Sentra, and Leaf combined for 36,228 July sales, up from 22,310 in July 2013 and 31,057 in June of this year.

Meanwhile, compared with the prior month, American Honda’s share of the U.S. market grew from 9.1% to 9.5% on the strength of the Accord and CR-V, America’s second-best-selling car and top-selling utility vehicle, respectively.

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Billfrombuckhead on Aug 02, 2014

Chrysler drew closer to Toyota July to July and yet lost market share?

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- LectroByte on Aug 03, 2014
  
  if you read this article http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2014/08/u-s-auto-sales-results-july-2014-ytd/ , you will see Chrysler is down on the YTD numbers, although they did have a much better July than last year.
  
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- Jimmyy on Aug 03, 2014
  
  bill, I see it differently. Toyota just passed Ford by market share. I am surprised Toyota management would not cook the numbers to stay behind Ford. Toyota risks another Obama recall attack. On the east and west coast, Chrysler is just not a player.
  
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- Mmmach1 on Aug 03, 2014
  
  Sounds like we better get used to it. The anti Chrysler spin is back. Chrysler Group/FCA July sales up 19.7% over last July and its hardly (if at all) a story here now. Its reported reported here as: "Overall new vehicle sales at Chrysler Group/FCA, Ford Motor Company, and General Motors increased 12%."???? Hmmm... is ED back in the shadows?
  
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- Mmmach1 on Aug 03, 2014
  
  @LectroByte Your cherry picking your numbers, "you will see Chrysler is down on the YTD numbers, although they did have a much better July than last year." ??? Read a little farther down on the chart. Chrysler Group/FCA: up 13.3% YTD
  
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- Mike978 on Aug 03, 2014
  
  @jimmyy recall attack? The recalls on my Sienna were perfectly valid - spare tire cage rusting out, fuel system issue and now an issue wit the solenoid valve on the transmission allowing it to be moved from P without a key.
  
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- 28-Cars-Later on Aug 03, 2014
  
  @mike978 Yikes. I'm surprised of the severity of the transmission issue (and possibly the fuel system issue).
  
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- Lou_BC on Aug 04, 2014
  
  @mike978 - what year Sienna? I have a 2010 that had the recall for the cable that holds up the spare tire. Some were not coated properly. Mine was fine. Other than that I had to replace a strut bushing and replace the brakes at 65,000 km. It is a bland appliance but so far very reliable.
  
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- Billfrombuckhead on Aug 04, 2014
  
  @mmmach1 This Cain does comparison of truck market share in another article and doesn't even mention the biggest story of the year in trucks which is Ram picking up 2+ points of marketshare and going over 20% of the truck market but lauds Toyota's restyled truck for a minuscule sales gain for the year.
  
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Chicagoland on Aug 03, 2014

Honda may be flat, but they will make good profits. They aren't dumping into fleets. Mopar-Fiat is unloading their leftover Avengers for peanuts, and they still have a lot of last year's Darts. Also, they are already discounting the 'revolutionary' new 200. If not for Jeep, they would have been put down years ago. GM still has a lot of loyal truck buyers, who dismiss the recalls since 'they were on small cheap cars', and no Suburban lost power [yet].

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- Redav on Aug 03, 2014
  
  One theory is that GM's recalls have actually helped their sales. The theory is that people with those cars haven't been in the dealership for a while, and so when they finally see the improvements made, they decide it's time for a new car, and they get a GM.
  
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- DenverMike on Aug 03, 2014
  
  @redav No doubt if you get 18 million consumers of the car buying demographic to your dealers, most with a history of making bad decisions in the showroom, yep bonanza for GM.
  
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Billfrombuckhead on Aug 03, 2014

Ram and Grand Cherokee are among the most profitable vehicles made in the world. FCA is the fastest growing car company in California with Maserati and Jeep the fastest growing brands. Chrysler has had 52 straight months do sales increases and the coming Renegade model should help keep that streak going. Chrysler is gaining market share from Toyota and Honda.

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Redav on Aug 03, 2014

For graphs like that pie cart, they'd look a lot better as .gif or .png files. The .jpg compression artifacts show up pretty bad on my monitor.

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