The Good, Bad And The Ugly: Who has the Most Inventory Entering February?

Automotive News is reporting today that the Detroit 3 inventories rose going into February following a soft January sales

Automotive News is reporting today that the Detroit 3 inventories rose going into February following a soft January sales. However both their Japanese and European counterparts inventories remained somewhat leaner overall.

Entering February overall industry inventories were at an 80 day supply compared to 63 day supply for the month of January.

Days On Hand Inventory

		February	January
US Inventories
	GM	107	81
	Ford	93	69
	Chrysler	78	74

Koreans		70	55

Japanese		65	49
	Toyota	53
	Honda	62
	Nissan	78

European		62	52
	BMW	32
	VW (minus Audi)	101

S4cabriofoxone - 2/13/2007 5:28:46 PM

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Notice that that's NOT Audi, though.

kart1 - 2/13/2007 6:59:15 PM

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Remember luxury car dealers have less inventory than someone like Chevy, Ford, or Toyota.

kart1 - 2/13/2007 7:01:06 PM

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Wait, what I meant to say is that since non-luxury vehicles sell more there are more inventory which is produced. So the non-luxury models are higher.

Absolutely off-topic than this conversation, so...

S4cabriofoxone - 2/13/2007 7:02:19 PM

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Will, if VW was the lowest European brand, and BMW was the highest, they obviously allowed luxury brands. So how could Audi have been lower than the lowest?

Use logic.

BMW4me4ever - 2/13/2007 8:07:32 PM

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psst ... the higher number reflects a larger supply and lower turn rate which is a bad thing .... If Vw is at 101 ( then they are the highest and the worse off ) where as BMW is only at a turn rate of 32 ( which is the best ) .... Again BMW is #1

delan - 2/13/2007 10:05:21 PM

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psst, I think we got that!