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TTAC’s Best & Brightest strike again! GM’s monthly sales since 2004 only went up today, and already the rich bounty of raw data is yielding fruit. Like this graph of GM’s sales by brand since 2004 by commenter j_slez. Some pictures are worth thousands of words.
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Biggest Losers (except in this game losers don’t win) for Q2, 2007 vs 2009:
* Chevrolet TrailBlazer: -92.5%
* GMC Envoy: -85.0%
* Hummer H3: -82.6%
* Hummer H2: -82.4%
* Cadillac Escalade EXT: -76.7%
* Saab 9-3: -73.4%
* Chevrolet Avalance: -72.8%
* Cadillac SRX: -71.8%
* Cadillac Escalade ESV: -71.2%
* GMC Yukon XL: -71.0%
* Saturn Sky: -70.8%
Holding their own? Malibu, HHR, Camaro, Traverse, Enclave, Vibe …
Wow. Every brand except for Chevrolet has just flatlined below 100K units. Send this graph to Obama to show that it is not just the recession that is kneecapping GM.
Sadly, my dollars assisted Chevy in June 2004.
I wish I had followed my original intentions of buying a Toyota truck but…. NO!!!!!
I just HAD to be a sucker, a fool, with an indoctrinated concern for my fellow Americans, buying a Ft. Wayne built pick-up so as to assist the “home team.”
I had no way of knowing that Chevy/GMC would spit upon me, costing me several thousand dollars in lost pay due to MANY trips to various dealers, trying to find a mere one willing to perform the diagnosis to repair the several defects that warranty should have covered.
Live and learn.
I wonder how many dollars I paid in federal tax have been diverted to assist a firm that spat upon me?
100K units per … ? Pontiac is about 200K units over the last 12 months, GMC is about 300K. Cadillac, Buick and Saturn are all just over 100K.
I stand by an earlier post…
If 60% of this pile is worth $50B, then VW must be worth $5+ Trillion and the Chinese can’t afford it.
We priced the Chinese right out of the market!!!
Reality got you down? Disagree with a new government program? Buy some ammo on the way home tonight.
Every box of ammo will make you feel just a little better about your place in the world…
per MONTH…
300K per Year is 25K per month
Which is exactly what the chart says.
Worse then the flat line “death” at the bottom of the chart is the steady decline of Chevy during some of our biggest economic “boom” years in 2006 and early 2007 everyone was making money in the stock market, minimal unemployment and cheap lending was everywhere.
And yet during times of economic growth sales are at best “flat”
If you “hold your own” during economic up turns and lose market share during a down turn… it only takes a few down turns before your sales are zero…
That’s a nice graphical representation of why they should’ve dumped everything but Chevy.
I just goes to show that no one sees Cadillac or Buick as a Luxury brand.
Why buy a mildly (poorly) pimped Chevy when you can have a Mercedes, BMW, Audi, Lexus, or Infinity?
What is wrong with this picture? The vertical axis should be logarithmic, so that the first 100,000 would be “expanded,” and the monthly sales action of the other lower selling brands can be seen more clearly.
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The fact that only GMC and Chevy were able to ever break 100,000 sales a month just proves that the one area where GM excels is trucks. Maybe their chapter 11 proceedings should be focused on that? There will always be a (small) market for trucks.
What is wrong with this picture? The vertical axis should be logarithmic, so that the first 100,000 would be “expanded,” and the monthly sales action of the other lower selling brands can be seen more clearly.
If you want to zoom in on the flatliners, then you’re missing the forest for the trees shrubs.
If that was the monitor of a patient on life support, the plug would have been pulled long ago.
I think the stockholders should sign an organ donar card. NOW!
RF, thanks for putting the files in XLS format. Couldn’t open yesterday
EN, thanks for the charts.
Damn… Thanks CamaroKid….
Just forget I ever posted this
So… when we look at the 2009 sales and take the Jan to Jun sales and multiply it out we find that annual sales for 2009 could reasonably be assumed to reach 4,644,227 vehicles
You might want to check your math…
When I add up all sales from all makes for the first 6 months of 2009 I get 954,356 cars and trucks.. times that by your monthly average correction factor of 100/49.3 and I get 1,920,233
So for 2009 they are on line to sell less then 2 million cars and trucks… How far back in time do you need to do to find a lower number?
Contrary to most, I find the flatliners interesting. Somehow these brands have managed to maintain a fairly constant sales volume while Chevrolet has steadily been losing sales.
That tells me that the core demographics for brands like Cadillac and Buick are fairly constant. That is likely why they are keeping them in the new GM and hoping to invigorate the product line. Obviously investment in Chevy products hasn’t stemmed the trend, so if they can manage even moderate growth in the other brands it may be dollars better spent.