By Leftlane Staff
Friday, Sep 1st, 2006 @ 2:56 pm

General Motors’ dealers in the United States sold 368,776 new cars and trucks in August, up eight percent compared with August 2005. Overall sales — including used vehicles — were up 3.7 percent. Chevrolet , GMC , Cadillac , Saab and Buick all saw retail sales increases in August. Buick Lucerne, Pontiac G6, Chevy Malibu and Impala drove the mid-car category. There were retail deliveries of 9,021 Buick Lucerne; 7,889 Pontiac G6 (up 18 percent) and 10,109 Chevy Impala (up 62 percent) vehicles last month. Chevrolet retail sales were up 8 percent, to 144,640 vehicles. GMC retail sales were up 17 percent. Cadillac retail sales were up 17 percent, to 17,062 vehicles. Saab delivered 3,157 retail vehicles in August, up 18 percent compared to last year. Buick retail deliveries were up 10 percent. Saturn retail car sales are up 5 percent compared with August 2005, with 8,677 vehicles delivered, including 1,073 Skys. Including used car sales, Buick was down 4.7 percent, Cadillac was up 0.2 percent, Chevrolet was up 1.3 percent, GMC was up 6.2 percent, Hummer was up 1.5 percent, Pontiac was down 12.1 percent, Saab was up 11.9 percent, and Saturn was up 5.3 percent. [data sheet]

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