With about every automaker seeing sales dip in April, best readers won’t be afraid by the banderole above. Even so, assertive segments of cars did see cogent sales increases in April, abnormally abridgement cars. Even a cardinal of affluence brands faired well. Some companies, like Subaru, had a almanac month.
One accumulation that was hit hard, however, was ancestors vehicles, and I’m not talking about big, truck-based SUVs. Minivans and three-row crossovers saw huge drops. The numbers beneath allegorize aloof how abundant families are abbreviating their belts in these ambiguous bread-and-butter times.
Minivans
- Chrysler’s afresh redesigned Town & Country minivan was hit hard. Despite about absolute reviews, sales alone 32% in April. Year to date, sales are bottomward 14%. Even if Chrysler has bargain agile sales (which they don’t breach out in the abstracts we see) that cardinal is too cogent to be offset.
- Dodge’s Caravan, a sister agent to the T&C, was bottomward 37% for April and 37% for the year.
- Hyundai’s Entourage minivan a sister agent of the Kia Sedona alone awash 500 copies in April, bottomward a whopping 81.5%. The Sedona, on the added hand, saw a able uptick of 21.9%.
- Surprisingly, the Chevy Uplander additionally saw a accretion 14.3% for April. The Uplander is the alone actual minivan in GM’s calendar afterwards the aggregation alone the anatomy appearance for added three-row crossovers. However, the agile sales aftereffect could be impacting its numbers.
- Toyota’s Sienna minivan was bottomward 19%* for the month.
- Nissan’s Quest, which has never been awfully popular, was bottomward 34.2%* for the month.
Three-Row Crossovers
- GMC’s accepted Acadia saw a hit in April of 15.8%*. It debuted in aboriginal 2007, so this is one of the aboriginal months back a year-to-year cardinal could be advised apples-to-apples.
- Saturn’s Outlook saw a added astringent bead of 33.8%*. GM’s Buick Enclave wasn’t on auction in April 2007, so there’s annihilation to analyze its 2008 numbers with.
- Ford’s three-row Taurus X aforetime accepted as the Freestyle was additionally redesigned a year ago and has apparent afflictive sales. Sales alone 53.8% in April from 2007. For the year, it’s bottomward 33.6%. That’s decidedly worse than the truck-based Expedition, which was bottomward a still-substantial 35% for the ages and 27.1% for the year.
- Even Toyota’s accepted Highlander was bottomward 8.7%* in April, admitting it shows a absolute 4.7% access for the year.
- Mazda airy the trend a bit with its CX-9 crossover, which saw a 24.8% bang in sales for April.
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Number adjusted for more selling days in April 2008 versus April 2007. Unadjusted numbers will appear more positive.
