Canadian sales fare better in July; GM down -2%, Toyota Sets Record

[Family Man]

Originally Posted by boblutzfan

What? Are folks north of the boarder do a better job of supporting GM than we do? I wonder how many vehicles with sales gains in Canada are not currently sold in the US?

I always thought that Canadians supported GM better than Americans, but when the numbers are compared, we are almost the same.

As a general rule, the USA is about 10x as big as Canada, so to make quick comparisons, we multiply Canadian numbers by 10 in order to compare them to the US.

(Comparing CAN/USA
Population: 33.4million / 300million est July 2007
GDP: $1.2trillion / $13 trillion est 2006)

GM sold 32k cars in Canada, while ~320k were sold in the US. Not much difference.

[Chaz_23]

Except that GM went through the trouble of closing dozens of plants in the US, fire thousands of workers so they can open up plants in Canada and hire Canadians. So Canadians could consider some of the GM cars and trucks they build with their own hands as domestic.

Originally Posted by Smaart Aas Saabr

And Canadians tend to like Japanese cars a lot. And you can't say much about "patriotism" since the "domestics" are American anyway

[Family Man]

Originally Posted by Chaz_23

Except that GM went through the trouble of closing dozens of plants in the US, fire thousands of workers so they can open up plants in Canada and hire Canadians. So Canadians could consider some of the GM cars and trucks they build with their own hands as domestic.

Canada also builds certain Hondas and Toyotas, so does that make them "domestics" as well?

[Chaz_23]

I guess, if they feel that the Japanese are their kin and Americans not.

Originally Posted by Family Man

Canada also builds certain Hondas and Toyotas, so does that make them "domestics" as well?

[Stéphane Dumas]

Originally Posted by jman196

They will eventually rule the world.

and then grew at some point too big and inherit a big huge bureaucracy, take the same mistakes as Sony who was outsmarted by Samsung and who'll be outsmarted by Hyundai one day or they'll got the help of the "French connection" as it was the case for Nissan from Renault.

[shelby]

Originally Posted by paul38469

Chrysler is doing employee pricing as well as gas cards good for 20 cents off per litre of gas. I haven't heard much from anyone else, certainly not employee pricing, and still that was only good for a slight bump in their sales over last year.

It is funny that trucks are down so much and cars are up because I am seeing so many Lambdas and GMT-900 pickups lately.

Chrysler was doing employee pricing last year too, and interest rates were lower on most models. The slight bump was actually growth, and it shows. I work in Chyslers #1 market, and all the numbers last month were big.

[asim]

This is pretty much expected. Canadian sales usually fare better than the United States sales.

[Road Kill]

Most Canadians consider the Domestic auto industry part of their own due to the long history of our association. However we are subject to the same media brain washing as you are so that accounts for the similar patterns developing.

[MechEng]

Originally Posted by Chaz_23

Except that GM went through the trouble of closing dozens of plants in the US, fire thousands of workers so they can open up plants in Canada and hire Canadians. So Canadians could consider some of the GM cars and trucks they build with their own hands as domestic.

Americans were not fired so that they could open up plants and hire Canadians. In recent years many Canadians have lost jobs do to the big 3 layoff's (including myself). The only difference is the cuts have not run as deep here in Canada (Mainly because of lower health care costs to companies).

[doh]

Ford of Canada
down
7.6%

Retail up
6.5%

General Motors
down
2.0%

Retail down
2.7%

Chrysler
up
2.6%

Retail down
2.9%

Honda
down
7.7%




Toyota
up
2.5%


Vehicle Performance Highlights of Total Sales compared to last July include:


· Fusion
up 17.8%


· Mustang
up 11.3% - Best July since 1990


· MKZ
up 20.0% - Best July since launch

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Total Lincoln:
up 64.8% - Best July since 2002

Truck:



· Ranger
up 28.3%


· Escape
up 34.4% - Best July on record


· Combined SUV performance
up 39.9% - Best July on record


· Expedition
up 28.7%

[paul8488]

Originally Posted by Chaz_23

Except that GM went through the trouble of closing dozens of plants in the US, fire thousands of workers so they can open up plants in Canada and hire Canadians. So Canadians could consider some of the GM cars and trucks they build with their own hands as domestic.

What plants has GM opened in Canada in the past year? You honestly think they closed plants in the US so that they could open them in Canada?