October Auto Numbers
The October numbers have come in from the automakers. Not too shabby:
GM up 4.7%
Ford up 2.6%
Chrysler down 30%
Toyota flat (they sold 64 additional vehicles)
Nissan up 5.6%
Honda down 4%
Kia up 45.3%
Hyundai up 48.9%
Volkswagen up 7.2%
BMW down 19.1%
Daimler up 9.4% with Mercedes-Benz up 21.3% and Smart down 70%
Porsche up 15.1%
Overall that was a SAAR of 10.46 million vehicles, down from the 10.8 million of October last year. This was still considerably better than expectations of 10.2 million vehicles. Things were very bad in the past year (save C4C), so this looks like good news in comparison.
Everything above taken from this MarketWatch article.
