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05-04-2005, 06:24 PM
http://www.greencarcongress.com/2005/05/sales_of_fullsi.html
Sales of full-size SUVs in the US for the first four months of 2005 dropped 19% compared to the sales during the same period in 2004.
According to company reports, combined sales of full-size SUVs (models longer than 193 inches) dropped to 480,674 units during Jan-Apr 2005 from 593,035 units during the same period the year before. At the same time, overall light-duty vehicle sales in the US increased 1.2% to 5,384,275 for the period in 2005, up from 5,319,133 in 2004. Thus, the marketshare of full-size SUVs have dropped to 8.9% from 11.1% for those periods.
The company hit the hardest by this shift is GM, followed by Ford. Those two companies saw a combined drop in full-size SUV sales of almost 120,000.
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Sales of full-size SUVs in the US for the first four months of 2005 dropped 19% compared to the sales during the same period in 2004.
According to company reports, combined sales of full-size SUVs (models longer than 193 inches) dropped to 480,674 units during Jan-Apr 2005 from 593,035 units during the same period the year before. At the same time, overall light-duty vehicle sales in the US increased 1.2% to 5,384,275 for the period in 2005, up from 5,319,133 in 2004. Thus, the marketshare of full-size SUVs have dropped to 8.9% from 11.1% for those periods.
The company hit the hardest by this shift is GM, followed by Ford. Those two companies saw a combined drop in full-size SUV sales of almost 120,000.
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More at the link.