September 2011 Sales Recap

Even amidst an uncertain economic outlook, September 2011 auto sales were about 10% better than a year ago and September turned out to be one of the best month of the year so far. As in previous months roughly two-thirds of the brands posted better sales than a year ago while Toyota and Honda continued to see their sales slide. Leading the pack was Maserati with an exceptional 46.3 percent improvement. In the mainstream category Chrysler and its truck division Ram posted improvements of 42 and 36% respectively. Powered by the debut of its much talked about American built Passat, Volkswagen was able to increase its sales by over 35% as well. Backing up its promise of great dealership availability Nissan posted a 28.2% sales increase, on the other hand its luxury division Infiniti only managed to better last year's results by 2.1%. Doing well in the luxury category Audi and BMW both posted 19.% sales improvements while Lexus continued to struggle with an 11.5% drop.
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Joe_Limon - 10/4/2011 12:17:21 AM

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It's good to see Nissan hitting some double digit positive gains. I'd like to see more growth in Subaru, but a dated product portfolio is only gonna keep them coasting.

BondMI6 - 10/4/2011 12:39:37 AM

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Volvo 21.4???????

Is that a typo?

Really?

How is this possible?

holmstar - 10/4/2011 8:44:48 AM

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Where's Mazda?

Gambit - 10/4/2011 11:46:21 AM

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Autoblog's post has Mazda up 37.4%

http://www.autoblog.com/2011/10/03/september-2011-what-double-dip-recession-edition/

Shredmo - 10/4/2011 4:32:14 PM

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They had to sell what, an additional 15 cars over Sept. 2010 to pull off that percentage?!?! In all seriousness, it is good to see Chrysler having success!