Prius sales recover, a bit: 14,102 July

u/a tmc bashing?

 

Bad economy plus toyota losing sales to other car companies.

Nissan, Hyundai Extend Gains as U.S. Auto Sales Cool in July - Bloomberg

 

By The Numbers - July 2010: How Soon We Forget Edition — Autoblog has numbers broken down by company.

Yeah, I will buy that Honda and Toyota comparisons w/last year were definitely affected by cash for clunkers.

Unfortunately, I think some of GM's rise is due to a sizable percentage of people mislead by GM's dishonest ads about having paid back the government, in full. They ought to forced to air TV ads and take out newspaper ads retracting that nonsense and showing how much they still owe the US taxpayer.

 

Those numbers don't show what really went on with GM they only increased 6.4%. I'm not sure why they relabeled things GM core, as it distorts the numbers from the closed divisions.

 

Sad thing is america is buying more trucks and SUV than fuel efficient cars.
I think it has been the stability of gas price around $3 for the last six months.

 

Thanks. I didn't look carefully at the article. Now that I look, GM was was only up 5.4%.

Their latest sales release is at http://phx.corporate-ir.net/External.File?item=UGFyZW50SUQ9NTYxODZ8Q2hpbGRJRD0tMXxUeXBlPTM=&t=1 which is linked to from GM | General Motors: Investors: Sales Deliveries and Production Schedules: Current Release.

 

Yeah, looking at GM's release, it is sad. Compared to the same period last year here are the percentages by which some monstrosity class GM SUVs are up/down along w/supposedly "fuel efficient" GM vehicles.

Suburban: +13%
Tahoe: 65%
Escalade: +17.2%
Escalade ESV: + 33.9%
Escalade EXT: +11.4%
Yukon: +47.7%
Yukon XL: +4.1%
Equinox: -8.9% [press likes to call this "fuel efficient"]
Cobalt: -22.2%
Aveo: - 14.6%

 

Just goes to show how short sighted most Americans are, and how bad their memory is. For us forward thinking Americans (and I'm new to this group), this is the perfect opportunity to prepare for the future. I just dumped my pristine, low mileage, gas guzzeling full-sized 2007 pick-up for a new 2010 Prius, and was amazed at the price I paid for the car and the amount I was offered on my trade! The difference (out of pocket) was only $3400.00, an offer I couldn't refuse! Two years ago there would have been close to a $10,000 difference!

We like to think we are preparing for the future by taking advantage of the depressed sales of true economy cars now. We already own a 2007 Honda Fit that gets 32-34 MPG City on my daily commute, and my wife currently drives a Honda CR-V that will probably be traded for a new Hybrid RAV4 if they aren't priced out of reach... Either way, if the gas prices sky-rocket as predicted, at least we can park the CR-V and have two economical cars to drive!

 

Yes, and yes. And moderate, unvolatile gas prices also.

Doug Coleman
Prius Product Manager
Toyota Motor Sales, USA

 

One natural or geopolitical disaster away from 4 to 5 dollar a gallon gas! The FE cars won't gather dust for long!

 

We already have a geological disaster with the BP oil spill in the Gulf and the gas price didn't even winked.

 

winking has been a bit slow, i agree, but i paid 16 cents more for my last tank of gas

 

Gee guys,

Do you think that maybe America has a serious chronic addiction to large vehicles???

Keith

 

"America has an addiction to oil" -W
Large vehicles are just one way to get a fix

I wouldn't put one months figures out as a trend especially given the removal of incentives from a year earlier. Didn't the govenator save lots of oil with his green hummer.

Schwarzenegger+Hummer+Green??? : TreeHugger

 

The oil spill didn't affect supplies, it wasn't even a producing well yet. A hurricane shutting down refineries or a flare up with Iran will definitely reduce availably and result in big spikes! The spill does prove that the American consumer is too self centered to realize their love of big is directly related to the BP and other disasters! Only when it hits the old wallet will this change.