A sign of the times: U.S. auto sales are down for every single automaker across the board for September. It was Ford Motor Co.'s worst month of the year, with a 34 percent drop, while Chrysler LLC fell 33 percent and General Motors faired only relatively better with a 16 percent drop.
This will be the 11th straight monthly year-over-year decline - that's the longest string of down months since 14 straight negative months ended in December 1991, according to reports.
High gas prices continue to slam large vehicle sales, with Hummer falling an incredible 54.8 percent. Remember that former XM CEO Nate Davis said earlier this year that SUVs, and "high-end cars" tend to have a higher OEM conversion rate for satellite radio.
Ford's truck sales were down 39 percent, while car sales dropped 19 percent. Meanwhile, Chrysler's car sales declined 29 percent, and truck sales declined 34 percent. GM's light truck demand fell 19 percent in September, while car sales slid 10 percent.
Audi faired the best with "only" a 5.4 percent drop in sales. Congrats to Audi.
[Full report on Autoblog]
This will be the 11th straight monthly year-over-year decline - that's the longest string of down months since 14 straight negative months ended in December 1991, according to reports.
High gas prices continue to slam large vehicle sales, with Hummer falling an incredible 54.8 percent. Remember that former XM CEO Nate Davis said earlier this year that SUVs, and "high-end cars" tend to have a higher OEM conversion rate for satellite radio.
Ford's truck sales were down 39 percent, while car sales dropped 19 percent. Meanwhile, Chrysler's car sales declined 29 percent, and truck sales declined 34 percent. GM's light truck demand fell 19 percent in September, while car sales slid 10 percent.
Audi faired the best with "only" a 5.4 percent drop in sales. Congrats to Audi.
[Full report on Autoblog]
Speaking of Nate Davis what happened to him? Is he still with the "new" company?
Whoever runs this site needs to fix it. half the article gets cut off because of the images to the right of the article...
Its a shame that what was once the most recognized vehicle with the least amount of advertising turns into a scape goat for horrible vehicle sales. What was once a picture of individuality turns into the "Me Too SUV," driven by yuppies that have no idea what a Hummer WAS. They thought that it was a brand started by GM in 2003 when GM just paid for someone else's hard work and killed it.
When they see a REAL Hummer to this day they still do not know what it is.
The positive side to all this was the H3 gets better MPG than a lot of SUV's on the road but the H2 made the public think badly towards the brand. The H2 gets worse MPG than the H1.
Oh well... Their other vehicles are better than the imports.
"with Hummer falling an incredible 54.8 percent." How is that incredible? What's incredible is that anybody would pay for this gas guzzler in the first place! It's so wonderful that this "car" finally be driven off the road. Victory to gas misers!
And fix this g-damn website so all the text is visible!