Sales numbers are in for February 2007. As expected Ford Motor and Chrysler Group had bad months, with sales off 13.5% and 8%, respectively. Part of Ford’s drop was a 30% cut in fleet sales, but Ford retail was still down 8% and that’s not good news. In a shocker, General Motors sales were […]

General Motors and Ford today said their U.S. sales declined in February as they continued to back away from sales to daily rental fleets. While GM said its February U.S. sales would likely be off 6 to 7 percent from February 2006, the automaker expects its retail sales to be flat for the month.
Ford said […]

Mazda North American Operations announced that its January 2007 U.S. sales were the automaker’s best since 1994. With sales of 19,265 vehicles, Mazda sales were up 6.0 percent versus last year. Sales were led by the MAZDA3, with its best-ever January on sales up 25.3 percent from last year. The MAZDA5 posted an 8.7 percent […]

It seems like we have been saying “best-ever” for a long time when talking about Toyota’s U.S. sales, and we are doing it again.
Toyota today reported its best-ever January sales, with sales up 5.1 percent over January 2006. While the Toyota Division posted its best-ever January sales of 153,732 units, up 4.7 percent, Lexus did […]

Volkswagen of America, Inc. today announced that its January 2007 sales recorded a 2.3 percent increase over the same period in 2006. The brand’s January ‘07 sales were the best sales for the month of January since 2003.
The VW Jetta sedan continues to be Volkswagen’s most popular model in the U.S., with sales up 3.8 […]

General Motors’ January U.S. sales declined by 19.7 percent compared to January 2006, largely from GM’s efforts to reduce daily rental sales this year.
“We are aggressively reducing our daily rental fleet sales as a continuing element of our strategy to offer industry-leading value and improve residuals,” said Mark LaNeve, vice president, GM North American Sales, […]

Thanks to an extra selling day, Chrysler Group reported its sales for January 2007 were up 1 percent compared to last January. Chrysler’s January sales results were driven by solid retail sales, while fleet sales were down. Chrysler’s sales mark the automakers best January in the last six years.
Chrysler Group’s sales were driven in large […]

Mercedes-Benz USA today reported its best-ever January with sales up 36.9 percent from last January.
Mercedes-Benz’s January sales were led by a 82.8 percent increase in its luxury light trucks. MB’s passenger cars were up 24 percent from last year.
Mercedes-Benz USA is coming off its thirteenth year of consecutive sales increases.
Full press release after the jump.
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Audi of America today recorded its best January in the brand’s history, with sales up 5.2 percent over last year. January marked the 10th month of the past 12 when Audi sold more vehicles than the pervious year.
“Audi has a great deal of momentum as we enter 2007. We’re coming off record sales in 2006, […]

Porsche delivered 3,103 vehicles in North America in January 2007, down 7 percent from January 2006, as last year’s sales were buoyed by over 1,000 deliveries of the new Cayman S.
Porsche’s sports car sales were led by the 911, with a record-setting January with sales up 15 percent over last year’s sales. Boxster/Cayman series […]