By The Numbers: June 2006 - UPDATE 2
Most of the numbers for the month of June are in, and as you can see the red arrows outnumber the green ones yet again. Eighteen out of the 39 automakers below are reporting a rise in June sales over the same period last year. The 25.9% drop in sales by General Motors has attracted the most attention so far, but the General's performance, along with FoMoCo falling 6.9% and the Chrysler Group dropping 15%, can largely be attributed to the successful summer sales drive of 2005 that artificially inflated sales during that period. We should expect all three domestic producers to show a drop in sales throughout the summer because of this anomaly. Toyota, meanwhile, keeps on chugging with a 14.41% increase in sales last month compared to the year prior. Honda was also up, but only negligibly, and Nissan has yet to report.
Mad props go to Suzuki for picking up the pace with a 28% rise in sales last month. Credit for the big jump goes to the new Grand Vitara, the sales of which jumped 606% since last year to 2,514 units thanks to the all-new model. At the other end of the spectrum, Saab sales have been reduced to a trickle, falling 50.2% to just 3,295 units during the month of June. Another note of interest, all of the Germans saw a rise in sales, with Mercedes-Benz gaining the most ground on itself by posting a 14% rise in sales.
Big Winner:
Suzuki
28%Big Loser:
Saab
50.2%BRANDS
Acura
-19.4% at 15,107 (June 2005: 18,744)Audi
11.3% at 8,039 (June 2005: 7,209)BMW
3.4% at 24,179 (June 2005: 23,392)Buick
-36.6% at 23,738 (June 2005: 37,446)Cadillac
-21% at 23,265 (June 2005: 29,444)Chevrolet
-25.5% at 243,353 (June 2005: 326,632)Chrysler
-21% at 51,986 (June 2005: 65,594)Dodge
-11% at 96,485 (June 2005: 107,997)Ford
-7.2% at 226,250 (June 2005: 243,678)GMC
-46.5% at 47,604 (June 2005: 88,971)Honda
3.4% at 111,342 (June 2005: 107,672)HUMMER
-16.2% at 5,661 (June 2005: 6,754)Hyundai
4.3% at 44,508 (June 2005: 43,051)Infiniti
20% at 9,300 (June 2005: 11,623)Isuzu
-8.4% at 1,652 (June 2005: 1,803)Jaguar
-25.2% at 2,160 (June 2005: 2,888)Jeep
-19% at 37,475 (June 2005: 46,441)Kia
1.3% at 27,443 (June 2005: 27,095)Land Rover
12.7% at 3,847 (June 2005: 3,414)Lexus
6.3% at 27,686 (June 2005: 26,043)Lincoln
-11.1% at 9,610 (June 2005: 10,808)Mazda
8% at 23,727 (June 2005: 22,063)Mercedes-Benz
14% at 20,802 (June 2005: ~18,247)Mercury
1.7% at 16,670 (June 2005: 16,395)MINI
-1.4% at 3,556 (June 2005: 3,607)Mitsubishi
-.04% at 10,004 (June 2005: 10,621)Nissan
18.9% at 65,854 (June 2005: 81,158)Pontiac
12.1 at 41,115 (June 2005: 36,665)Porsche
10.4% at 3,058 (June 2005: 2,770)Saab
-50.2% at 3,295 (June 2005: 6,614)Saturn
.70% at 23,790 (June 2005: 23,618)Subaru
3% at 18,476 (June 2005: 17,946) Suzuki
28% at 9,516 (June 2005: 7,449)Toyota
15.71% at 195,332 (June 2005: 168,832)Volkswagen
5.5% at 20,121 (June 2005: 19,071)Volvo
-11.4% at 10,867 (June 2005: 12,266)COMPANIES
Chrysler Group
-15% at 185,946 (June 2005: 220,032)Ford Motor Co
-6.9% at 269,404 (June 2005: 289,449)General Motors
-25.9% at 413,473 (June 2005: 558,092)Honda America
0% at 126,449 (June 2005: 126,416)Toyota Motor Co.
14.41% at 223,018 (June 2005: 194,875)UPDATE - Added Nissan, Infiniti, Porsche, Kia and corrected error in Audi's numbers.
UPDATE 2 - Finally found Hyundai's Junes sales and reorganized listing for simplification.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Mark MacLeod 2:04AM (7/04/2006)
Either your vehicle sales numbers or your percentage of increase are incorrect for Audi. You posted that their increase is 6.8%, yet according to the numbers you quote it's more like 11.5%
Which one is correct?
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Mark MacLeod 2:08AM (7/04/2006)
Your numbers are also off for Mitsubishi.
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t 2:10AM (7/04/2006)
Mark: Percentages are taking in account the number of sales days within that month.
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t 2:16AM (7/04/2006)
Actually, let me take that back. Seems like there were 26 selling days in June for both 06 and 05, so I'm not sure how the percentages are calculated.
Oh well, here's some more numbers:
Nissan ▼ -19%
Infiniti ▼ -20%
Nissan Motors ▼ -19%
Hyundai ▲ +3.4%
Kia ▲ +1%
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Mark MacLeod 2:27AM (7/04/2006)
What I find most interesting in these numbers (excluding the ones listed in your comments, since they lack the raw data) is not that Suzuki had an almost 28% increase in vehicle sales, which only netted them a .11% increase in total market share, but that Toyota picked up most of GM's slack in market share.
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Keija 4:21AM (7/04/2006)
I didn't expect VW to be behind BMW :O ..
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Trollhattansaab 4:50AM (7/04/2006)
Aren't Saab entitled to the Saab understanding as the rest of GM?
You may remember they were practically throwing 9-2x's at people this time last year, with about $7,000 or so off the price. They moved 1,999 of them in June alone. If Saab can hold the pace they've had they'll end up around level with last year, which is not as good as what was hoped for by the faithful in January, but is better than most would have predicted.
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John 6:07AM (7/04/2006)
There's calculation errors in these reports all the time. Business people aren't known for math skills, outside of punching a calculator.
If you go on manufacturer's websites where they break down their sales by models, you'll find a bazillion calculation errors.
These reports are made every month, and a couple numeric mistakes apparently isn't a big deal.
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Lithous 9:44AM (7/04/2006)
"but that Toyota picked up most of GM's slack in market share."
According to the data GM is down 144,619 vehicles and Toyota had a gain of 28,143. Not sure the scenario you paint of Toyota gaining nearly as much as GM lost is very accurate.
Good to see Suzuki having such high gains based on an SUV. Way to go all you small car loving Americans. Why didn't someone tell Suzuki that small cars are the key and stop building SUVs. Oh, yeah, Toyota makes 6 different SUVs, I forgot.
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Cap'n 10:31AM (7/04/2006)
The Audi sales figures (6.8%) are the YTD sales increase.
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whofan 10:37AM (7/04/2006)
"Oh, yeah, Toyota makes 6 different SUVs, I forgot."
Posted at 9:44AM on Jul 4th 2006 by Lithous 0 stars"
I think Toyota builds more SUV models than GM?
I`d take an Impala over a Camry anyday
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MFfan310 11:02AM (7/04/2006)
"Oh, yeah, Toyota makes 6 different SUVs, I forgot."
Mr. Lithous, they do... but I decided to read Toyota's June 2006 sales stats to see which ones were gaining or losing.
Toyota's fuel-efficient RAV4 (21-24 mpg city/28-30 mpg hwy) is now their biggest-volume SUV, as sales of it after the redesign have doubled from 6,400 units to 13,000 units. FJ Cruiser (which is selling well in off-road areas) had sales of about 6,000. The Highlander (including hybrid) chimed in at around 10,000 vehicles, down around 10% from last year. 4Runner sales were flat, but sales of Sequoia and Land Cruiser (the big-time guzzlers) went down over 30%.
But the real winner in Toyota's sales stats were cars. Yaris is off to a great start, seling over 6,800 units. The perennial best-seller plain-vanilla Camry is up 9.8%, too, thanks to the redesign and hybrid model. Prius sales were flat, but that's mainly due to supply issues, as Toyota can't make enough to meet demand that's twice that of current sales. The real stars... Corolla sales are up a whopping 38%, and Scion xB sales are up 46.5% (xA and tC sales are going way up, too).
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John Neff 11:04AM (7/04/2006)
All figures are taken directly from the automakers only. We chose not to take any from news reports.
Yes, the number of selling days in June was 26. I read that in one of the manufacturer's press releases.
Thanks for the sharp eyes on the Audi error. That was my fault. I hope you all enjoy this post. I've always wanted to do a post that gathered all of the sales information from every company in one place.
Also, for Ford, GM and Toyota we included sales info for each company and then their individual brands. Could have done for that for Nissan and Honda, as well as a few others, maybe will next time.
Thanks!
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tbonney 11:14AM (7/04/2006)
While GM's sales were down big, it is not all that surprising with the employee discounts they ran last year in June. They were the only automaker to have the employee pricing program running in June, Ford and Chrysler started in July.
What I find interesting is that GM captured 26.9% market share for the quarter, which is the best month for market share GM has had all year I believe. And they did not have any huge incentive programs during the month, until the very end with the 72 hour sale. I find the 26.9% share very impressive considering the way it had been going.
It will be interesting to see how they do next month as both Ford and Chrysler are going to do employee pricing and GM is bound and determined not to. Next month could get ugly, or it could show that like Toyota, people are willing to pay for GM's vehicles without all of the cash on the hood.
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salguod 11:34AM (7/04/2006)
OK, I think I understand that 'Ford' is just Ford and 'Ford Motor' is Ford, Lincoln & Mercury together. Ditto 'Chrysler' and 'Chrysler Group' but what's the difference between 'Honda' and 'Honda America' or 'Toyota' and 'Toyota Motor'?
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Dave 11:36AM (7/04/2006)
salguod:
Honda America probably includes Acura, and toyota Motor probably includes Scion.
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Dave-in-PA 12:31PM (7/04/2006)
Scion AND Lexus, guys.
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snakesausage 1:35PM (7/04/2006)
I wonder if Audi’s increase was due to the highly publicized racing wins of the R10 diesel?
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Lithous 3:26PM (7/04/2006)
"Mr. Lithous, they do... "
Please, just call me "Lithous", we're all friends here, haven't you noticed?
"Toyota's fuel-efficient RAV4 (21-24 mpg city/28-30 mpg hwy) is now their biggest-volume SUV, as sales of it after the redesign have doubled from 6,400 units to 13,000 units."
My 2.2L VUE gets that MPG easily and within months the VUE Greenline will be out as well.
"4Runner sales were flat, but sales of Sequoia and Land Cruiser (the big-time guzzlers) went down over 30%."
Whoa. I lost my breath. The "big-time guzzlers" and Toyota products mentioned in the same sentence. Hold on I need to recover.
"Prius sales were flat, but that's mainly due to supply issues, as Toyota can't make enough to meet demand that's twice that of current sales."
But there is a whole manufacturing process named for Toyota. Surely you can't mean that they can't manufacture something fast enough. My gosh, if GM and Ford declared bankruptcy tomorrow do you mean that Toyota couldn't just pick up the slack? Why that means... Oh no. Supply and demand. Prices of all cars would sky rocket and ... Oh, no say it isn't so, say Toyota can build whatever we need. They are America's savior. Please help us.
"While GM's sales were down big, it is not all that surprising with the employee discounts they ran last year in June."
Good point. And to add to this that GM already stated that they were going to sell less to fleet so it shouldn't be surprising to anyone.
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LJC 4:21PM (7/04/2006)
Since Daewoo was not included I will include this, their sales are up 44%, Daewoo is GM.
http://www.marketwatch.com/News/Story/Story.aspx?dist=newsfinder&siteid=google&guid=%7B6C5B369F-660F-440B-B632-4708F285FF81%7D&keyword=
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