Preliminary March Sales +40%

They released it in the Newsroom.

The Prius mid-size gas-electric hybrid posted March sales of 11,786 units, up 27.0 percent over March 2009.

Newsroom : Toyota Reports March and First Quarter Sales / Toyota

 

sweet! it will be interesting to see all the mfg's #'s.

 

Two thirds of all vehicles sold were produced in N America, ~66%.

 

Toyota: http://pressroom.toyota.com/pr/tms/document/March_2010_Sales_Chart.pdf
Honda: American Honda Reports March Sales Increase of 17.8 percent -- TORRANCE, Calif., April 1 /PRNewswire/ --
GM: General Motors U.S. March sales rise 20.6% - MarketWatch
Ford: FORD’S U.S. SALES UP 43 PERCENT IN MARCH; NEW PRODUCTS WITH I ... - Press Release - Ford
Nissan: Nissan U.S. March sales jump more than 43% - MarketWatch

 

numbers over march of last year is not a good indicator. seems i remember that march last year we were still trying to get out of major downturn from winter 2008.

what is the #'s as compared to march 2008?

 

but 08 was the end of the credit bubble, also a bad comparison. and why is honda struggling?

 

And it had surging gas prices too.

 

reason i asked what sales figures were over 2008 is that all manufacturers had huge increases across the board which usually means that there is nowhere to go but up.

 

A little surprised to see +40%. I thought it would have been +20%. That's great news. I'm sure it will continue.

 

Toyota sold 186,863 in March and 66,025 were imported. @ $30,000 a copy on the average(over 30,000 were Lexus) Toyota contributed about $2,000,000,000 to the US trade deficit not including all of the imported parts use in assembly in the US, Canada and Mexico.

 

Why does an increasing sales number of one model of an auto manufacturer amount to "great news" ?

 

It is because this is Priuschat. We only consider Prius.
Toyota has one of the lowest sales gain of all vehicles amount all the auto maker at 7%.

 

Having worked my entire post-college life for operations that were net exporters -- of goods, not jobs -- I'm not feeling guilty.

Though I would have felt better if this car had been built in Mississippi or Texas, as proposed before the recession. After two decades of driving Asian branded cars with large American labor and North American parts content, it was a bit embarrassing to get my first car with the same negligible American content as the Chevy Aveos my nephews drive.

But I'm exporting half as much oil money as they are.