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[TaHoE]

Industry Sales Numbers: Presented to you by GMInsidenews!

May 2005 Sales

General Motors
MTD -4.7% (393,197)
YTD -6.3% (1,794,278)

Ford Motor Company
MTD -10.5% (283,994)
YTD - 5.6% (1,326,134)

Daimler Chrysler
MTD -2% (232,286)
YTD +4% (1,048,245)

Toyota Motor Company
MTD +7.8% (201,493)
YTD +11.9% (919,195)

Honda Motor Company
MTD -7.6% (122,169)
YTD +0.9% (565,948)


Nissan Motor Company
MTD +15% (93,519)
YTD +15.8 (449,940)

Hyundai Motor America
MTD + __% (40,416)
YTD + __% (181,386)


For more details click on the Company name for their individual press release.

[Taycron]

Is this for May only?

[fatratchevy]

year to date i do believe. . .

[zeobandit]

That's for May

[fatratchevy]

my fault Tycron, I too was confused. . .

[TaHoE]

**Updated with YTD Sales Numbers**

[mk1700]

GM needs a New Camaro, The HHR, The Solstice, The Sky, The G6 Cuope & Convertible Now.
GM dont need UAW.

[timman]

Nobody need mk1700.

[surferdude00711]

Originally Posted by timman

Nobody need mk1700.

I bet his GF does, and GM needs everything he mentioned. No one needs a pessimistist lol. But, boy, these numbers aren't too hot...

[TaHoE]

I agree the Camaro is definitely a great idea to lift sales at GM, however it's sad to say that it seems like Chevrolet can survive without a Camaro. Now the question is, does GM want to merely survive or thrive!

[Ming]

FOUNTAIN VALLEY, Calif., June 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Hyundai Motor America today announced sales of 40,416 vehicles for the month, which represents the best May sales in company history. Leading the way were the Elantra followed by the Sonata. The new Tucson SUV, named segment leader in the recent 2005 Strategic Vision Total Quality Study, set a single-month sales record with 5,732 sales.

"Despite the challenging automotive sales environment, we continue to set all-time sales records month-over-month," said Hyundai’s Vice-President, National Sales Ed Bradley. "Consumers are responding positively to the Grand Opening of our all-new $1.1 billion manufacturing plant in Montgomery, Alabama earlier this month, and the introduction of our completely redesigned 2006 Sonata which is the first Hyundai vehicle to be built in the U.S."

"We are excited about our potential sales growth in June with the arrival of an increasing number of the all-new Sonata in our dealerships," Bradley continued.

http://www.mysan.de/article118280.html

[Cortazzo]

It seems that ford and GMs new models are doing very well, hopefully they get the hint and keep more of their models more current more of the time...

[W.A.F.U.]

Maybe I'm not interpreting the numbers correctly or something but wasn't Toyota supposed to have passed DCX at this point?

It seems to me Toyota has a long, long way to go to catch GM in terms of total units sold.

[Family Man]

Retail deliveries of several new vehicles again outsold previous year retail sales of the models they replaced. Chevrolet Cobalt retail sales were up 73 percent compared to May 2004 retail sales of Cavalier. Buick LaCrosse retail deliveries were twice the combined Century and Regal retail volume of May 2004. Pontiac G6 retail sales were 92 percent higher than year-ago retail Grand Am V6 sales.

The above is from the GM press release...

It's great to see the Cobalt doing so well. As for the G6, I hope the above shuts everyone up about how the G6 isn't selling well. The G6 seems to be doing just fine, thank you, and will only get MUCH better with the introductions of a base 4-cyl model along with the coupes and GTP models.

[RWD60]

Originally Posted by W.A.F.U.

Maybe I'm not interpreting the numbers correctly or something but wasn't Toyota supposed to have passed DCX at this point?

It seems to me Toyota has a long, long way to go to catch GM in terms of total units sold.

these are US numbers... global numbers are VERY different. Toyota is just above Ford, and Nissan is above Honda (i think). toyota is gaining in europe and asia, and basically runs the japanese market. toyota had cought up to DCX in the US in 2003 and early 2004 i think, but the 300 and its side effects pulled DCX back ahead.