May 6th, 2009 by Bill Cawthon
Next time someone tells you Chrysler is a loser, hit ‘em with some facts. After four months of sales in the 2009 Calendar year, here’s how the company stacks up:
Chrysler is outselling the combined totals of Lincoln and Mercury. Chrysler also is outselling the Buick, Cadillac, Pontiac, Saab and Saturn brands.
Dodge is outselling the combined [...]
April 16th, 2009 by DaveAdmin
For the second consecutive month, the 2009 Dodge Ram Crew Cab Laramie took the top sales spot for luxury pickup truck sales in Mexico. The Ram as a whole now holds a 25% share in the light-duty pickup segment, with sales up 2% year to date though the segment as a whole is down 17% [...]
February 4th, 2009 by DaveAdmin
Automotive News reported that, faced with a 50% sales decline, Chrysler has once again shut down the Sterling Heights, Jefferson North, and Warren Truck plants, which make, respectively, the Sebring/Avenger, Grand Cherokee/Commander, and Ram and Dakota. Despite the award-winning, visually unique 2009 Dodge Ram redesign, pickup sales dropped 35% in January – which made them [...]
February 3rd, 2009 by Bill Cawthon
The Dodge Journey continues to be more popular with consumers than the Ford Flex.
In January, 3,092 new vehicle buyers went home with a Journey while the Flex brought in 2,459 customers. The Journey has now outsold the Flex every month since the Ford crossover went on sale last summer.
February 3rd, 2009 by DaveAdmin
Finnish magazine Auto Bild Suomi took a set of two Dodges, a Chrysler, and a Jeep, boasting manual and automated-manual dual-clutch transmissions with diesel and gasoline engines, on a 12-hour trip to the Arctic circle, measuring gas mileage along the way via trip computer and at the end of the journey by inspecting actual gasoline [...]
December 3rd, 2008 by Bill Cawthon
Chrysler sales plunged 47.1 percent in November as tight credit and consumer concerns about the economy took a toll on the entire industry. Compounding the matter was buyer uncertainty about the future of Chrysler and the other American automakers. In its loan request to Congress, General Motors cited a study by CNW Marketing Research that [...]
November 4th, 2008 by Bill Cawthon
As predicted, October’s U.S. light vehicle sales weren’t pretty. A tough economy and severely tightened credit produced a seasonally adjusted annual rate of just 10.56 million sales, the lowest SAAR since February 1983. Combined reported sales numbers missed even September’s anemic levels, coming in at about 838,000 units, 130,000 units less than last month and [...]