How Bad is the US Auto Market

Source :http://www.motorintelligence.com

Note- As a professional site for tracking automobiles market in the United States  this is one of the best sites .I quote from their website itself ”

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Founded in 1990, Autodata Corporation has grown to become the benchmark source of custom automotive statistical data, market intelligence and analysis to the OEMs, Wall Street Analysts and financial institutions. Autodata specializes in on-line electronic delivery of custom management reports, data and proprietary analysis in a near-real time environment. Autodata is the primary outsource supplier of on-going confidential market analysis to major brands.

The graphic is from NYT from their data.The table below is available as a download from their website along with more ,better detailed data.

 

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                                               Preliminary Results        
                         
      Oct 2008     Oct 2007   %Chng.   2008 CYTD   2007 CYTD   %Chng.
                         
  General Motors Corp. 168,719   307,408   -45.1%   2,581,385   3,241,502   -20.4%
    Total Cars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  73,466   111,736   -34.3%   1,111,176   1,267,514   -12.3%
    Total Light Trucks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  95,253   195,672   -51.3%   1,470,209   1,973,988   -25.5%
      memo: Saab. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  1,975   2,275   -13.2%   19,337   27,960   -30.8%
  Ford Motor Company 132,248   189,360   -30.2%   1,719,918   2,112,211   -18.6%
    Total Cars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43,201   60,266   -28.3%   630,954   696,775   -9.4%
    Total Light Trucks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89,047   129,094   -31.0%   1,088,964   1,415,436   -23.1%
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     memo: Volvo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,717   7,771   -52.2%   63,745   88,762   -28.2%
  Chrysler LLC 94,530   145,316   -34.9%   1,278,049   1,724,139   -25.9%
    Total Cars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24,957   36,115   -30.9%   357,190   433,749   -17.7%
    Total Light Trucks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69,573   109,201   -36.3%   920,859   1,290,390   -28.6%
                         
  Toyota Motor Sales U.S.A. Inc. 152,101   197,592   -23.0%   1,945,404   2,199,237   -11.5%
    Total Cars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94,236   110,258   -14.5%   1,202,360   1,278,763   -6.0%
    Total Light Trucks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57,865   87,334   -33.7%   743,044   920,474   -19.3%
  American Honda Motor Co. Inc. 85,864   114,799   -25.2%   1,266,447   1,308,319   -3.2%
    Total Cars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51,400   66,015   -22.1%   781,560   743,794   5.1%
    Total Light Trucks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34,464   48,784   -29.4%   484,887   564,525   -14.1%
  Nissan North America Inc. 56,945   84,947   -33.0%   842,643   898,000   -6.2%
    Total Cars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39,052   47,812   -18.3%   525,701   536,473   -2.0%
    Total Light Trucks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17,893   37,135   -51.8%   316,942   361,527   -12.3%
  Volkswagen Group of America Inc.  23,508   25,145   -6.5%   267,505   272,346   -1.8%
    Audi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,443   7,420   0.3%   73,260   75,898   -3.5%
    Volkswagen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,889   17,260   -7.9%   191,255   192,339   -0.6%
    Bentley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146   379   -61.5%   2,333   3,338   -30.1%
    Lamborghini . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30   86   -65.1%   657   771   -14.8%
  Mitsubishi Motors N. A., Inc. 7,486   9,280   -19.3%   87,591   115,106   -23.9%
    Total Cars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,663   5,939   -4.6%   68,364   76,135   -10.2%
    Total Light Trucks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,823   3,341   -45.4%   19,227   38,971   -50.7%
  Mazda Motor of America Inc. 16,442   22,201   -25.9%   231,850   250,597   -7.5%
    Total Cars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,702   13,574   -21.2%   156,051   170,474   -8.5%
    Total Light Trucks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,740   8,627   -33.5%   75,799   80,123   -5.4%
  Hyundai Motor America  20,820   30,232   -31.1%   358,484   388,639   -7.8%
    Total Cars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,878   19,214   -22.6%   266,879   250,885   6.4%
    Total Light Trucks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,942   11,018   -46.1%   91,605   137,754   -33.5%
  BMW of North America Inc.  25,526   26,850   -4.9%   262,141   275,350   -4.8%
    BMW . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20,203   23,451   -13.9%   215,836   239,788   -10.0%
    Mini . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,272   3,370   56.4%   45,966   35,306   30.2%
    Rolls Royce . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51   29   75.9%   339   256   32.4%
  Daimler AG 17,248   22,830   -24.5%   212,889   203,348   4.7%
    Mercedes-Benz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,005   22,821   -34.2%   192,393   203,208   -5.3%
    Maybach. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  7   9   -22.2%   104   140   -25.7%
    Smart. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  2,236   0   NA   20,392   0   NA
  Subaru of America Inc.  12,917   14,979   -13.8%   156,706   153,515   2.1%
    Total Cars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,777   9,953   -21.9%   97,803   101,083   -3.2%
    Total Light Trucks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,140   5,026   2.3%   58,903   52,432   12.3%
  Kia Motors America Inc. 15,483   25,185   -38.5%   243,571   257,228   -5.3%
    Total Cars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,427   12,123   -38.7%   140,255   128,677   9.0%
    Total Light Trucks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,056   13,062   -38.3%   103,316   128,551   -19.6%
  Isuzu Motors America Inc. 251   576   -56.4%   4,439   6,110   -27.3%
  American Suzuki Motor Corp. 3,482   6,536   -46.7%   77,995   88,536   -11.9%
    Total Cars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 658   2,424   -72.9%   19,865   39,773   -50.1%
    Total Light Trucks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,824   4,112   -31.3%   58,130   48,763   19.2%
  Jaguar Land Rover N.A. LLC 2,894   5,267   -45.1%   38,155   53,358   -28.5%
    Jaguar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 867   1,030   -15.8%   12,951   13,047   -0.7%
    Land Rover. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,027   4,237   -52.2%   25,204   40,311   -37.5%
  Porsche Cars N.A. Inc.  1,427   2,862   -50.1%   22,503   29,140   -22.8%
    Total Cars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 737   1,678   -56.1%   12,847   19,079   -32.7%
    Total Light Trucks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 690   1,184   -41.7%   9,656   10,061   -4.0%
  Ferrari of N.A. Inc. 108   75   44.0%   1,342   1,378   -2.6%
  Maserati of N.A. Inc. 157   220   -28.6%   2,087   1,899   9.9%
                         
                         
    PASSENGER CARS 428,089   560,463   -23.6%   6,002,748   6,375,947   -5.9%
    LIGHT TRUCKS 410,067   671,197   -38.9%   5,598,356   7,204,011   -22.3%
  TOTAL LIGHT VEHICLE SALES 838,156   1,231,660   -31.9%   11,601,104   13,579,958   -14.6%
                         
      memo: Imp. Brand Car Total 290,471   358,759   -19.0%   3,958,963   4,054,476   -2.4%
      memo: Imp. Brand Light Trucks 157,880   240,863   -34.5%   2,145,871   2,564,352   -16.3%
      memo: Imp. Brand Light Veh. 448,351   599,622   -25.2%   6,104,834   6,618,828   -7.8%
                         
      memo: Imp. Sourced Car Total 151,080   185,269   -18.5%   2,059,904   2,096,113   -1.7%
      memo: Imp. Sourced Truck Total 79,575   117,204   -32.1%   1,013,770   1,224,097   -17.2%
                         
      memo: Transplant Vehicles 221,111   303,681   -27.2%   3,082,813   3,366,698   -8.4%
      GM & Ford Heavy Truck Total 2,456   3,445   -28.7%   28,612   51,689   -44.6%
                         
                         
                         
  Percent change calculation based on numeric comparison, not adjusted for selling days in period.                
                         
  Revised: November 1, 2008                      
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