Sales: Sales Figure Ticker: November 2015

[William Maley]

Note: Mercedes-Benz announced their sales numbers will go up tomorrow due to "systems malfunction with its retail reporting (DDR) system." We'll add their results to this post tommrow.

 

Volvo Cars of North America, LLC - Up 90.5% (6,902 Vehicles Sold This Month, 60,705 Vehicles Sold So Far This Year)
Jaguar Land Rover North America - Up 55.3% (7,604 Vehicles Sold This Month, 75,410 Vehicles Sold So Far This Year)
Hyundai Motor America - Up 12% (60,007 Vehicles Sold This Month, 698,202 Vehicles Sold So Far This Year)
Mazda North American Operations - Up 7% (23,732 Vehicles Sold This Month, 289,890 Vehicles Sold So Far This Year)
Nissan Group U.S. - Up 3.8% (107,083 Vehicles Sold This Month, 1,345,618 Vehicles Sold So Far This Year)
Mitsubishi Motors North America - Up 3.6% (6,772 Vehicles Sold This Month, 87,455 Vehicles Sold So Far This Year)
Toyota Motor Sales U.S.A. - Up 3.4% (189,517 Vehicles Sold This Month, 2,260,963 Vehicles Sold So Far This Year)
American Honda Motor Co. - Up 3% (115,441 Vehicles Sold This Month, 1,435,658 Vehicles Sold So Far This Year)
FCA US LLC - Up 3% (175,194 Vehicles Sold This Month, 2,026,381 Vehicles Sold So Far This Year)
Subaru of America, Inc. - Up 2% (46,070 Vehicles Sold This Month, 526,401 Vehicles Sold So Far This Year)
General Motors Co. - Up 1.5% (229,296 Vehicles Sold This Month, 2,792,136 Vehicles Sold So Far This Year)
Kia Motors America - Up 1.4% (45,553 Vehicles Sold This Month, 571,577 Vehicles Sold So Far This Year)
BMW Group U.S. - Up 1.2% (36,447 Vehicles Sold This Month, 364,903 Vehicles Sold So Far This Year)
Audi of America - Up 0.4% (16,700 Vehicles Sold This Month, 181,803 Vehicles Sold So Far This Year)
Ford Motor Company - Up 0.4% (187,794 Vehicles Sold This Month, 2,373,920 Vehicles Sold So Far This Year)
Porsche Cars North America, Inc. - Down 5.3% (4,450 Vehicles Sold This Month, 47,820 Vehicles Sold So Far This Year)
Maserati North America, Inc. - Down 10% (1,083 Vehicles Sold This Month, 10,624 Vehicles Sold So Far This Year)
Mercedes-Benz USA - Down 11.7% (33,475 Vehicles Sold This Month, 341,543 Vehicles Sold So Far This Year)
Volkswagen of America - Down 24.72% (23,882 Vehicles Sold This Month, 318,484 Vehicles Sold So Far This Year)

 

Brands:
Acura - Down 10.4% (12,244 Vehicles Sold This Month, 160,342 Vehicles Sold So Far This Year)
Alfa Romeo - N/A (44 Vehicles Sold This Month, 606 Vehicles Sold So Far This Year)
Audi - Up 0.4% (16,700 Vehicles Sold This Month, 181,803 Vehicles Sold So Far This Year)
BMW - Up 6.5% (32,003 Vehicles Sold This Month, 311,398 Vehicles Sold So Far This Year)
Buick - Down 16.6% (15,960 Vehicles Sold This Month, 202,347 Vehicles Sold So Far This Year)
Cadillac - Up 1.8% (13,390 Vehicles Sold This Month, 154,480 Vehicles Sold So Far This Year)
Chevrolet - Up 4.8% (156,907 Vehicles Sold This Month, 1,936,553 Vehicles Sold So Far This Year)
Chrysler - Down 12% (23,953 Vehicles Sold This Month, 300,554 Vehicles Sold So Far This Year)
Dodge - Down 8% (38,938 Vehicles Sold This Month, 467,897 Vehicles Sold So Far This Year)
Fiat - Down 3% (3,029 Vehicles Sold This Month, 38,605 Vehicles Sold So Far This Year)
Ford - Up 0.6% (179,876 Vehicles Sold This Month, 2,283,553 Vehicles Sold So Far This Year)
GMC - Down 1.9% (40,039 Vehicles Sold This Month, 498,756 Vehicles Sold So Far This Year)
Honda - Up 4.9% (103,197 Vehicles Sold This Month, 1,275,316 Vehicles Sold So Far This Year)
Hyundai - Up 12% (60,007 Vehicles Sold This Month, 698,202 Vehicles Sold So Far This Year)
Infiniti - Up 2.6% (11,694 Vehicles Sold This Month, 118,405 Vehicles Sold So Far This Year)
Jaguar - Down 15% (1,065 Vehicles Sold This Month, 13,269 Vehicles Sold So Far This Year)
Jeep - Up 20% (68,903 Vehicles Sold This Month, 775,374 Vehicles Sold So Far This Year)
Kia - Up 1.4% (45,553 Vehicles Sold This Month, 571,577 Vehicles Sold So Far This Year)
Land Rover - Up 79.4% (6,539 Vehicles Sold This Month, 62,141 Vehicles Sold So Far This Year)
Lexus - Up 6.8% (29,340 Vehicles Sold This Month, 118,405 Vehicles Sold So Far This Year)
Lincoln - Down 2.4% (7,918 Vehicles Sold This Month, 90,367 Vehicles Sold So Far This Year)
Maserati - Down 10% (1,083 Vehicles Sold This Month, 10,624 Vehicles Sold So Far This Year)
Mazda - Up 7% (23,732 Vehicles Sold This Month, 289,890 Vehicles Sold So Far This Year)
Mercedes-Benz - Down 13.1% (30,043 Vehicles Sold This Month, 308,885 Vehicles Sold So Far This Year)
MINI - Down 11.3% (4,444 Vehicles Sold This Month, 53,505 Vehicles Sold So Far This Year)
Mitsubishi - Up 3.6% (6,772 Vehicles Sold This Month, 87,455 Vehicles Sold So Far This Year)
Nissan - Up 3.9% (95,389 Vehicles Sold This Month, 1,227,213 Vehicles Sold So Far This Year)
Porsche - Down 5.3% (4,450 Vehicles Sold This Month, 47,820 Vehicles Sold So Far This Year)
Ram Trucks - Up 1% (41,107 Vehicles Sold This Month, 443,344 Vehicles Sold So Far This Year)
Smart - Down 18.8% (662 Vehicles Sold This Month, 6,815 Vehicles Sold So Far This Year)
Sprinter - Up 9.4% (2,270 Vehicles Sold This Month, 25,843 Vehicles Sold So Far This Year)
Subaru - Up 2% (46,070 Vehicles Sold This Month, 526,401 Vehicles Sold So Far This Year)
Toyota - Up 2.8% (160,177 Vehicles Sold This Month, 1,957,742 Vehicles Sold So Far This Year)
Volkswagen - Down 24.72% (23,882 Vehicles Sold This Month, 318,484 Vehicles Sold So Far This Year)
Volvo - Up 90.5% (6,902 Vehicles Sold This Month, 60,705 Vehicles Sold So Far This Year)

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[G. David Felt]

WOW, VW down 25% is bleeding massively.

[El Kabong]

Cadillac is up. That's good.

VW is just starting to feel the heat. It's gonna get worse.

[Drew Dowdell]

WOW, VW down 25% is bleeding massively.

 

And that's with huge increases in incentive spending!

[William Maley]

 

WOW, VW down 25% is bleeding massively.

 

And that's with huge increases in incentive spending!

 

 

Also, dealers are reportedly running out of stock of certain vehicles.

[Drew Dowdell]

Keep in mind that in some models, the TDi trim was 30% of sales.  Jetta, Golf, and Passat were three of the top sellers that sold about that rate in the past and now 30% of that volume is essentially gone.  Jetta and Passat are the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd best sellers in the VW lineup.... so that is a huge chunk of their biggest sellers.

[Paolino]

Whoah... I knew it was going to hurt VW... but that's pretty hard.

[G. David Felt]

Just drove by VW of University in Seattle and they have a ton of auto's on their lots 200+, so checked their web site and they list only 136 available for sale. Quick call to the dealership and the sales person said that they had almost 100 diesels that are just sitting till they can be repaired and unable to be sold.

 

Based on that, I would say that VW is going to be hurting a long time as product sits, trust is shattered and people are not buying from them. Bet December gets ugly.

 

So locally VW is offering 0 down, 0 first and second month payments. $1500 owner loyalty and .9% for 72 months. You can also get $1000 if you trade in a competitor car. Free oil changes for life and free loaner auto on service. Pretty amazing as they are also showing pricing reductions of 3-5K depending on model. So they are spending some cash to try and keep sales going.

[smk4565]

VW with all those diesels they can't sell is going to keep them down a while.  Plus you probably had people buy it because it was diesel and not VW, so those buyers may just look elsewhere all together.  

 

This month shows how people want crossovers.  That is bad news for brands like Dodge and Chrysler.  You don't really need 2 sedan brands when a brand like Jeep is up 20%.  Land Rover and Volvo up a ton because of new crossovers in their lineup.

[El Kabong]

It's a great time to buy a GTI if that's your kinda ride. Wonder if the incentives apply across the board?

[ccap41]

I always appreciate how well organized this thread is. You make it easy to read. Good job.

[ccap41]

It's a great time to buy a GTI if that's your kinda ride. Wonder if the incentives apply across the board?

Hell, that's probably the ONLY exception to their incentives because it's the only vehicle worth buying from VW. Lol

[William Maley]

I always appreciate how well organized this thread is. You make it easy to read. Good job.

 

I try and thanks.

[G. David Felt]

It's a great time to buy a GTI if that's your kinda ride. Wonder if the incentives apply across the board?

At least here in the Seattle market the incentives do apply to all the products including the GTI, the only change on the GTI is that the auto loan is a 1.9% interest for 60 months versus .9% for 72 months on everything else. 

 

Kinda weird, not sure why this one is different but it clearly is stated on the web pages for the VW dealers here.

[surreal1272]

A correction is needed.

 

Lincoln - Down 2.4% (7,918 Vehicles Sold This Month, 303,221 Vehicles Sold So Far This Year)

 

That should be more like around 90,000 sold this year (90,367 to be exact) or else Lincoln suffered the largest month over sales drop in the history of sales drops.

Edited December 2, 2015 by surreal1272

[FordCosworth]

I just noticed the GMC Sierra was down over 26%

 

I wonder why the huge drop? 

[Drew Dowdell]

I just noticed the GMC Sierra was down over 26%

 

I wonder why the huge drop? 

 

Typically when you see one of these large one-off 1 months drops is that the same month in the prior year had some unusually high sales activity.

In this case, the Sierra seems to be returning to norm after some large sale going on in November 2014  (Think both GM and RAM pulled out all the stops on incentives at the end of the year last year to kick the F-150 while it was first being released)

 

Nov 2012 - 11,726

Nov 2013 -  14,362

Nov 2014 - 22,554

Nov 2015 - 16,527

 

and sales are up over 4% for the year on Sierra.

 

The long term growth trend is still positive. 

[FordCosworth]

 

I just noticed the GMC Sierra was down over 26%

 

I wonder why the huge drop? 

 

Typically when you see one of these large one-off 1 months drops is that the same month in the prior year had some unusually high sales activity.

In this case, the Sierra seems to be returning to norm after some large sale going on in November 2014  (Think both GM and RAM pulled out all the stops on incentives at the end of the year last year to kick the F-150 while it was first being released)

 

Nov 2012 - 11,726

Nov 2013 -  14,362

Nov 2014 - 22,554

Nov 2015 - 16,527

 

and sales are up over 4% for the year on Sierra.

 

The long term growth trend is still positive. 

 

 

 

Thanks for the detective work! 

 

Your " incentive " explanation makes sense.

[William Maley]

A correction is needed.

 

Lincoln - Down 2.4% (7,918 Vehicles Sold This Month, 303,221 Vehicles Sold So Far This Year)

 

That should be more like around 90,000 sold this year (90,367 to be exact) or else Lincoln suffered the largest month over sales drop in the history of sales drops.

 

Oops. It has been fixed.

 

Also, I updated the article with Mercedes-Benz's numbers.

[Drew Dowdell]

A correction is needed.

Lincoln - Down 2.4% (7,918 Vehicles Sold This Month, 303,221 Vehicles Sold So Far This Year)

That should be more like around 90,000 sold this year (90,367 to be exact) or else Lincoln suffered the largest month over sales drop in the history of sales drops.

A correction for the correction is needed.

Lincoln sold 90,367 vehicles....so far, not for the year.

Lincoln is also at around +9% for the year...so far.

Thanks

What happened to Buick.

Wow.

Big hit.

No need to be pedantic. We all knew that he meant "so far this year". We will report full year percentages in January.

Buick's sedans are all at the end of their cycles and are being replaced.

[El Kabong]

Semantics are the WORST