Best Selling Car in August - Chevrolet Silverado

[dindak]

Unless you drive a lot, $4 gas is just not the end of the world. Prices are coming back to earth now who knows, $3 gas maybe only a few months away.

[63GrandSport001]

Originally Posted by Bvonscott

They are not being sold at a loss. Trust me. The Employee discount is covered by the dealers.

Someone is going to be taking a big hit, I dont see the dealers just doing this without GM offering them some kind of an incentive to do so.

And until someone gives information to show that this is being done differently and GM isn't going to end up with a huge loss because of this then thats the information that we have.

[usa1]

Originally Posted by Bvonscott

They are not being sold at a loss. Trust me. The Employee discount is covered by the dealers.

No it's not. It's just like a factory to customer rebate.

Mark

[waterskier98]

I know at least some of these must have gone to rental fleets - saw several of them at Enterprise when I was renting - in fact the only vehicles they had left. I reserved a mid size sedan, but instead was handed the keys to a brand new 2009 Silverado Crew Cab LT - very first person to rent it - 100 miles on the odometer. GREAT TRUCK. I couldn't believe it was a Chevy - the build quality felt better than many Toyotas. I didn't want to return it - and after driving it for a few days, had me seriously considering trading in my Trailblazer on one.

[jzchev28]

i really doubt their being sold at a loss, obviously they are not makeing as much profit as they would have liked to. either way at least they are moveing some metal which is a good thing when you cant shut your factories down without haveing to still pay your workers.

[bone]

When will we learn that huge behemoths like the Silverado will help push gasoline prices well above $4/gal. once again? The movement to cars over the last 6 months is has helped push the price down to current levels. I would be much happier if GM sold 56 000 Malibus last month.

[lio45]

Originally Posted by paul8488

Any chance it will outsell the F-150 this year?

If GM keeps giving them away for the rest of the year, and Ford manages to resist jumping in the firesale party for the rest of the year, then yes, there's a chance.

[Evo69]

Originally Posted by bone

When will we learn that huge behemoths like the Silverado will help push gasoline prices well above $4/gal. once again? The movement to cars over the last 6 months is has helped push the price down to current levels. I would be much happier if GM sold 56 000 Malibus last month.

^^^ What he said. I dont consider this any great thing. I would have rather a GM car took that mantle not a truck.

[vcs2600]

GM has heavily cut truck production. Once the inventory gets cleared and supply and demand even out, the big sales will probably be over.

[GM-Joe]

The construction people will need trucks again! If anyone has ever worked in construction, you there is one constant that everyone must realized, construction workers do not know how to take care of their trucks! So once the housing issues resolve and pickup, their will be plenty of companies that will need to restock their fleet and plenty of individuals that will need to replace their trashed trucks. Give it another year and a half and the trucks will sell again.

[Joe in T.O.]

Originally Posted by nferr

Amazing isn't it. Sell trucks at a loss and the GM fans applaud like it's a success.

It is a success, that's 55,765 truck sales that aren't going to Toyota therefore money staying in North America instead of Japan.

[kenman923]

Go figure! Well, it may be because gas prices have gone down.

[Dukeboy01]

I drove through the lot of my local Chevy dealer earlier this morning. It was pretty bare of both trucks and cars, IMO. They did have six 4 cylinder Malabus off to one side.

The local Dodge dealer, on the other hand, has a lot of '08 Rams crowding up the place. If I had the choice to own one of the dealerships, I think I'd go with the Chevy place. Better to have vehicles in high demand.

[member12]

The Silveado is a great truck.

I highly recommend it to everyone looking at full sized trucks.

[Rocket 88]

It is very good news that Chevy was able to move a lot of Silverados but I hope GM doesn't think this means they should slow down their investment in building GREAT cars.

While I would expect the pick up market will exist for the forseeable future, I bet other large vehicles did not experienced the same revival. Do you think a lot of Tahoes, Suburbans and Avalanches were sold? The over-under on Hummers is probaby 1200.