Comments on: Chrysler, GM, Toyota, Hyundai report massive sales declines

By: jackjimturkey

jackjimturkey — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 20:09:13 +0000

In short, the whole industry is in what Archie Bunker calls “the turlet.”

By: sprockkets

sprockkets — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 14:54:15 +0000

Volvo doesn’t sell here. Anything not selling is a liability. Selling off Mazda I believe was for their sake, err, right?

Anyhow, seeing the Mini jump in sales is ridiculous, since they already are overpriced due to low production and their so called novelty value. They do keep their value, but still, I’m not going to pay around $30k for a car with nav/xenon/and a sport turbo package that is just as fast as my current 2005 Mazda3, $18k when purchased.

By: teahead

teahead — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 06:21:43 +0000

Chrysler selling 85k units is not that bad I must say.

More sales than Honda.

Chrysler needs to vastly revise their cars’ interiors and revamp that ugly Sebring sedan!

I think Jeep and the new 09 Ram will be good sellers as gas prices are down. Problem is…home construction is way down, so truck buying will suffer.

I think these car companies just needs to reduce production. I mean, the market is FLOODED w/used cars.

And folks are not going to get in debt for 5-6 years when they can’t even make the mortgage or rent payments!

By: elviososa

elviososa — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 02:53:45 +0000

Ford wil be kicked if they sell the Volvo unit.

By: FSVT_ROCK

FSVT_ROCK — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:48:45 +0000

ford is getting better and better now, and they going to be the #1 sell faster then GM does since GM has been pushing all their product back. Ford is going to kick some ass in next couple years.

By: Commodore

Commodore — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 23:36:13 +0000

Ouch, at this rate is the US car market even going to make it to 13 million total units as forecast?
And what about China? PLEASE tell me that their car market has stopped expanding for now

By: mayer_ray_nagin

mayer_ray_nagin — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 23:07:23 +0000

LMFAO @ crApuras stupid mouth causing sales declines despite the plethora of new models. POS.

By: TOZO

TOZO — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 22:40:43 +0000

VW & Audi averaged a 21% decline, VW lost 19%, Audi sold 25% less in November. They did do OK last month. Mini is the only brand that is up this month. For the year, only Subaru is up – barely up 1%, and Mini up 31% by volume. As a company, Daimler is up 1% for the year too due to Smart. Everthing else appears extremely SCREWED for now.

By: gogogodzilla

gogogodzilla — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 22:26:22 +0000

How did Volkwagen and Audi do?

By: johnnycanuck

johnnycanuck — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 21:52:29 +0000

As bad as those numbers are they don’t even take into account that there’s probably very little if any profit being made on most of those sales. Aside from giving the damn things away what do they do next to generate some traffic?

By: Mutant@DCX

Mutant@DCX — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 21:47:08 +0000

Aspen was a company/employee lease special for last month. ( hybrid excluded )

By: A4

A4 — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 21:33:39 +0000

yeah woah what did the aspen sell compared to last year?

By: Lionwithoutpride

Lionwithoutpride — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 21:28:34 +0000

It saddens me to know that Ford is going to look at Volvo as a liability now and will probably end up selling them. I really hope I am wrong. We all know how well Ford and Volvo did in the safety reviews that came out recently. I just hope Ford is forward-thinking enough to realize that it is Volvo’s culture of safety (whether one believes they are still leaders in safety or not) that leads Volvo to continue to try and innovate safety and that is something I just do not think Ford has.

I could be wrong; but, I think that if Ford sells Volvo then Ford is going to start letting safety slip again. Someone can correct me if I am wrong; but, I have always heard that safety is one of the biggest factors in selling cars, so Ford needs to stay focused on safety. That said, again, I just do not see Ford, sans Volvo, making the right decisions in regards to safety. One need only consider that Ford is stretching out ESC as an OPTION on many of its vehicles until it becomes mandatory. This, despite the fact that safety advocates claim 1/3 of all annual highway fatalities (about 10,000 deaths) could be avoided by all new autos being equipped with ESC. That is not the approach that will keep Ford on top of safety. No matter what car enthusiasts think of Volvo as a brand they offer Ford an incredibly strong asset in terms of safety.

By: HoosierHero

HoosierHero — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 21:24:04 +0000

Wait…the Aspen sold well? WTF?? JakeK66- I was tempted to buy a Ford when I saw F150′s for sale at $9k brand new!

By: yarddog82abn

yarddog82abn — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 21:13:23 +0000

Last I check every one every where reported low sales number… Even with Black Friday sales…

By: JakeK66

JakeK66 — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 21:07:36 +0000

Why did Ford fare better? Their product isn’t all that new, I guess the F-150 helped it a bit and so did lower gas prices. But Still?