U.S. Auto Sales Brand Results: January 2015
Ford was America’s best-selling auto brand in January 2015 as improved car sales, improved utility vehicle sales, and a 17% improvement in F-Series sales helped the brand to a 16% year-over-year...
View ArticleJanuary 2015 Full-Size Pickup Truck Sales Up 17% – F-Series Outsells GM Twins
January 2015 was the first month since July of last year in which the Ford F-Series outsold GM’s full-size twins, the Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra. Between August and December, F-Series sales...
View ArticleSmall/Midsize Trucks Grab 15% Of January 2015’s U.S. Pickup Market, Tacoma...
The Chevrolet Colorado and GMC Canyon combined to own 31.8% of the small/midsize U.S. pickup truck market in January 2015, up from near nonexistence one year ago. This meant the class-leading Toyota...
View ArticleJanuary 2015 Sales: Buick’s Cars Bring The Brand Down
Rough starts do not invariably lend credence to the belief that 2015 will be full of doom and gloom. Although January accounts for 8.5% of a calendar year, the month was responsible for just 6.7% of...
View ArticleJetta Volume Plunges In January, Volkswagen’s Modest Improvement Continues
Volkswagen USA reported a 59-month low in Jetta sales in January 2015, just the second four-digit Jetta sales month in the last four and a half years, and a narrow ten-unit year-over-year overall brand...
View ArticleAmerica’s 10 Best-Selling Cars In January 2015
In January 2015, for the second consecutive month and the fourth time in the last six months, the Toyota Camry was not America’s best-selling passenger car. But after holding the title in October and...
View ArticleAmerica’s 10 Best-Selling SUVs And Crossovers In January 2015
The Honda CR-V, soon to be the middle rung on Honda’s crossover ladder, was America’s best-selling SUV in January 2015. This was the CR-V’s fifth consecutive month atop the SUV/CUV leaderboard. 2014...
View ArticleU.S. Sales: The Lexus NX Isn’t Hampering The Lexus RX
Up to this point, the arrival of a potential familial rival has not hindered the success of the Lexus RX, America’s favourite premium brand utility vehicle. The RX, still a relatively affordable...
View ArticleNew Colorado And Canyon Are Now Worthwhile Parts Of GM’s U.S. Lineup
Although General Motors’ full-size truck twins failed to outsell the Ford F-Series in January 2015, GM still came out on top as the best-selling truck manufacturer in America last month. In the...
View ArticleSmall Vans Take 26% Of U.S. Commercial Van Market In January 2015
Ford’s second-generation Transit Connect is losing market share at a furious rate. However, that’s not a valid commentary on the Transit Connect, but rather a side effect of a revolution in the small...
View ArticleFiat 500 Love Affair: Over In Canada, At a Passionate Peak In Mexico
Fiat 500 sales plunged to an all-time low in Canada in January 2015, falling 69% to just 148 units. To be honest, 500 sales were lower in Canada on one occasion. In February 2011, only nine were sold....
View ArticleJanuary 2015 Canada Auto Sales Recap – Pickups Earn 21% Market Share
Canadian auto sales increased 3% to the third-highest January in the country’s total in 2015 despite downgraded passenger car volume and limited SUV/crossover growth. The Ford brand began 2015 where it...
View ArticleChart Of The Day: Volvo Wagon Sales Jumped 11% In America In January
Volvo wagon sales increased 11% in the United States in January 2015. An 11% improvement represents a scant increase of 67 units compared with January 2014. Volvo USA sold 650 XC70s, V60s, and V60...
View ArticleCain’s Segments: January Sales Of Flagship Luxury Cars
Mercedes-Benz USA’s S-Class outsold its next-best-selling rival by more than two-to-one in January 2015. S-Class volume jumped 22% from the level achieved in January 2014, a year-ago period in which...
View ArticleNot Aussiely Influenced: Big Chevrolet Sedans Struggle All The More In...
In September, we told you the Chevrolet SS didn’t sell as often as the dreadfully unpopular Cadillac ELR in August, the first time the SS failed to do so during the period of coexistence. They tied in...
View ArticleJeep Is Selling More Wranglers Than Ever, Needs Toledo To Build Many More...
After averaging 7500 Wrangler sales in the five Januarys leading up to 2015, Jeep sold 11,683 Wranglers in America last month, a January record for the nameplate. Record-setting figures are nothing new...
View ArticleEscalade To The Rescue: Cadillac’s Numbers Are Awful Without The Big SUV
At this very moment, imagine if you will, Cadillac without the Escalade. It’s not a difficult task. Let’s just do the Cadillac maths as if the Escalade no longer exists. It does, and it surely will,...
View ArticleAmerica’s Top 5 Midsize Cars Earn 7 Out Of Every 10 Midsize Car Sales
America’s five top-selling midsize cars have held an iron-fisted grip on their category for years, making it very difficult for interlopers to succeed in any meaningful way. • Sonata & Malibu...
View ArticleA Leaf Falls In January: After 23 Consecutive Increases, Nissan USA Reports...
In the same way that consecutive games without a point draw attention to the fact that Sidney Crosby previously achieved a 25-game point streak, the Nissan’s Leaf slight decline in the lowest-volume...
View ArticlePickup Trucks Grab Three Best-Selling Positions In America In Five...
The pickup truck world’s consistent hold on the whole of American best seller’s podium is steadily tightening. January 2015 was the fifth consecutive month in which all three of America’s best-selling...
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