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Automotive News & Views What is "wrong" with these new subcompacts?
8653 messages, Last post on Nov 27, 2009 at 6:22 PM
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was cruising around Edmunds Auto Observer in a slow half hour this morning and discovered the latest sales report. Everything is down down down, right? Not so! The Honda Fit set a new October sales record with 6,478 sold, a 28.1 percent increase in the second month of availability for the redesigned 2009 model. For the year, Fit sales are up a whopping 51.4 percent.....But only the Fit and TL were on the plus side for the month.......Accord sales were down 38.4 percent in October, pushing calendar-year-to-date sales into negative territory -- off .3 percent And although the Yaris subcompact dropped 13.3 percent in October, year-to-date sales are outstripping 2007 by a still-heady 25.9 percent, one of the better performances in any market segment Corolla is up just like Civic, but Camry is down for the month and down for the year, more so than the Accord. Mini sales buoyed the group with sales up 56.4 percent in the month; for the year, Mini is up 30.2 percent And of course Smart had already exceeded its 12-month sales goal after only ten months, as of 10-31-08. Midsize car sales falling, large car sales TANKING, subcompact sales SKYROCKETING. I guess it's not just the presidential election that's going right in the U.S. 
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Replying to: nippononly (Nov 05, 2008 12:15 pm)
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Replying to: ateixeira (Nov 05, 2008 12:57 pm) What I expect we WILL see a skew towards for at least six months is low-priced cars, an area where the subs hold a certain advantage... 
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Replying to: nippononly (Nov 05, 2008 1:00 pm) I'd love to be wrong. Ghosn timed the cheap new Versa perfectly. That guy earns his salary, unlike many auto leaders.
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Replying to: nippononly (Nov 05, 2008 12:15 pm)
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Replying to: ateixeira (Nov 05, 2008 1:02 pm)
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Replying to: boaz47 (Nov 05, 2008 1:11 pm) On the NJ turnpike it was $2.53. Up in CT it was $2.79. Ouch. Huge variation by locale.
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