The Santa Fe (+41.9%) helps Hyundai-Kia up 11% in October. The USA new light vehicle market is estimated to drop for the second straight month in October at -1.6% to 1.337.815 units, leading to a year-to-date tally down -1.3% to 14.116.709, and now looks like it could be hitting 17…
The new X7 helps BMW sales up 6% in September. After August showed the largest gain in 4 years (+10.3%), U.S. September volumes go the opposite way at -11.8% to 1.278.746 units due to two fewer selling days than September 2018 and sales around the critical Labor Day weekend this year…
The Toyota RAV4 and Honda CR-V both break their all-time US monthly volume records in August. After edging into positive for the first time this year in July (+1.9%), the US new light vehicle market soars an estimated 10.3% year-on-year in August to 1.651.092 units, the first double-digit gain in…
India is the only Top 20 world market to break its volume record in 2018. Picture by Elliott Scott. We can now share with you today 2018 Annual Volumes for 145 markets worldwide, including Passenger Cars + Commercial Vehicles. As such, these figures can vary from the ones we have…
The Palisade sells over 4.000 units in July, helping Hyundai up 12.1%. July 2019 marks the entrance into very troubled waters for the U.S. new car market with the Detroit 3 (General Motors, Ford Motor and FCA) accounting for 45% of the market now abandoning monthly sales reporting and sharing…
Ram sales are up 28% year-on-year in the U.S. so far in 2019. New light vehicle sales in the U.S. are down -2.1% year-on-year over the First Half of 2019 to 8.446.693 units, the lowest H1 volume in the U.S. since 2014 (8.16m). Behind this relatively modest drop hides the…
The Ram Pickup incredibly breaks its all-time volume record for the 6th time in the past year. The U.S. new light vehicle market is still searching for its first monthly gain with June deliveries disappointingly down -1.9% year-on-year to 1.527.274 units. One bright spot is the seasonally adjusted annual sales…
The Ram Pickup breaks its all-time volume record for the 5th time in the past 10 months. It may be a tiny -0.1% and just 1.436 sales less year-on-year, but the U.S. new light vehicle market is yet to find its first uptick of the year with May marking five…
Nissan Altima sales are up a whopping 59% year-on-year in April. This article has been updated with correct data for Audi models and refined estimates for Buick, Cadillac and GMC models. April marks the 4th straight month of year-on-year decline for U.S. new light vehicles, still chasing their first gain…
The Toyota RAV4 wins 7 States in 2018 vs. just 5 in 2017. For the fifth year in a row and thanks to our partnership with JATO Dynamics, we can share with you today separate rankings of the Top 5 best-selling vehicles for each U.S. State over the Full Year 2018.…
Ram (+20.6%) ignores the surrounding gloom with the largest gain in the Top 20. Down -3.2% to 3.989.468 units, the U.S. new light vehicle market endures its slowest start of the year and its first quarter below 4m since 2014 (3.74m). Accordingly, most analysts including myself anticipate 2019 to be…
Jetta sales are up 64.7% in March, helping Volkswagen up 14.8%. It's a third consecutive month of decline for the U.S. light vehicle market with March down -3.1% to 1.605.715 units, bringing the Q1 tally down -3.2% to 3.989.468. However a bright spot is the Seasonally Adjusted Annualised Selling Rate…
The Kia Telluride has landed in the US, helping Hyundai-Kia to a 4th consecutive gain. The U.S. new light vehicle market sinks -3.4% year-on-year in February to 1.258.042 units. Note some external reports have this figure up to 12.000 units higher due to overestimating Tesla sales. This clear February loss means…
Resurrecting the Ford Ranger is turning out to be a blockbuster decision for Ford with over 300.000 expressions of interest recorded by the manufacturer so far. Sales of new light vehicles drop 3% year-on-year in the US for January to 1.122.864 units. Fleet shipments have come to the rescue to limit…
The new Wrangler helped Jeep sales up 17.5% to reach a new all-time record. Consult over 110 years of U.S. Historical Data here. The U.S. new light vehicle market shows surprising resolve in 2018 with a 0.6% uptick to 17.343.708 deliveries, marking the 4th largest annual volume in U.S. history…