Comments on: March sales: GM, Ford lead slide

By: Need more oil for GM

Need more oil for GM — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 19:51:22 +0000

Not Chrysler and certainly not Ford. Everyone would rather drive a GM vehicle because it is the right choice. The Patriotic choice. The American choice.

What is good for General Motors is good for America

By: Need more oil for GM

Need more oil for GM — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 19:50:10 +0000

Americans have Total Confidence in GM.

By: jackjimturkey

jackjimturkey — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 17:22:01 +0000

Times are hard.
P Byrd: congrats on the deal.

BuyUSA: It’s probably rare, but it is possible to buy say, a Malibu, and still not be a patriot. It’s also possible for a patriot to buy a car with a foreign company’s name on it.

Veda: When’s it not a good time to buy a Maserati?

By: shaver

shaver — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 15:55:08 +0000

Surprises.
831 people thought it a good idea to buy a Hummer?
VW saved buy the CC that is apparently hot seller for a niche product.
Subaru sales clearly reflect that the economy has not effected the camping, organic food, glass blowing or weed industries.

By: Veda

Veda — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 04:25:45 +0000

That is insane. Only 92 cars per month for Maserati? For the whole freakin US? Heck I guess it’s good time to go buy one right now.

By: DB9

DB9 — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 01:29:16 +0000

Sad to see the market couldn’t break 700k. The numbers for fleet sales, not given here, have cratered. I see the numbers for two of my babies (G8 & CC) have bucked the trend;-)) Way to go – You go Girlz:-)))

DB9

By: gta89mike

gta89mike — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 22:47:48 +0000

Americans have Total Confidence in GM.

By: gta89mike

gta89mike — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 22:46:39 +0000

Amen, BuyUSA.

By: BuyUSA

BuyUSA — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 22:16:42 +0000

^^^ Those numbers throw out the argument that nobody wants to buy an American car. Clearly, there are plenty of patriotic Americans who do. The twinkle-toed import snobs writing on this board from Europe would like you to believe that nobody wants American cars, but the numbers simply don’t reflect that.

By: gta89mike

gta89mike — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 21:32:01 +0000

Just goes to show you how bad it is for everyone. Here are the totals based on the above numbers:

GM 156380
Toyota 132802
Ford 125107
Chrysler 101001
Honda 88379
Nissan 66640

Detroit BIg 3 382488
Japan Big 3 287821

Wow, almost 100,000 more units sold by Detroit. Who builds cars America doesn’t want?
That is still a lot of cars considering how bad the media portrays the economy to be. Could the media be wrong?

By: johnnycanuck

johnnycanuck — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 21:08:00 +0000

Borat, sure it is. It’s just tougher to swallow when you’re down that much.

By: Borat

Borat — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 20:52:58 +0000

On a lighter note: is Hummer is really a Hummer if it is down 75%?

By: Borat

Borat — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 20:38:08 +0000

I believe that 10% is under-reported figure. Officially there are over 10% unemployed in California. How many Mexicans counted in that number? When they did work they did contribute to economy – they spend money and bought things. What about those folks whose benefits are already exhausted? If we to use real world statistic, we may get really horrific view, even 10% is very sugar coated.

By: cocojoe53

cocojoe53 — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 19:59:08 +0000

Good point Borat…Its all about the economy right now. As a victim, joining the nearly 10% unemployed, I know that as much as I love cars, a new one is now about 10 on my priority list. Too bad, as there are great deals to be had

By: Borat

Borat — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 19:00:49 +0000

Who cares how great the deal is if most of normal people concerned about their income? We really don’t know where recession ends and if it is recession (great news!) and not a depression. If your credit is crap and you don’t have anything to lose you can waltz into GM dealership and walk out with car attached to sub-prime financing (as another post stated), but all you get is a car of defunct company.

By: Payton Byrd

Payton Byrd — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 18:30:45 +0000

@johnnycanuck

Incentives are pretty damn good down here. I got a $29,000 2008 Kia Sedona for for $20,000 out the door. That’s a nearly 33% savings.

Chrysler is offering Employee pricing PLUS up to $8000 off of many new models.

By: johnnycanuck

johnnycanuck — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 17:20:28 +0000

You make a very good point gugy. I can’t speak for what it’s like down there but I’m not seeing any screaming deals up here. There are some good discounts if you have the cash but that’s nothing new. The minute you mention the word finance you’re pretty much back to msrp minus whatever the incentive of week happens to be and usually it isn’t much.

By: gugy

gugy — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 17:09:02 +0000

Big surprise….

People have no money and the ones who do are being very cautious.
Last thing people want on times like these are to jump on more commitments.

Also take into consideration the new car prices have not drop that much.
I predict a lot of pain for car dealers and manufactures this year.

By: Impulsive

Impulsive — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 16:40:48 +0000

We had extraordinary numbers on the upside just a few years ago with EASY money … now you are naturally going to experience the opposite. Nature works wonderfully, no?

It’ll be a few more years of this before we’re back to some sort of equilibrium. Enjoy.