Drop in VW: US auto market gets a damper – n-tv.de NEWS

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 Wednesday 01 June 2016

 
 
 

 
 The month of May is in terms of car sales in the United States no more successful. Two big loser there: the market leader General Motors and Volkswagen. The other brands reported in the month less sales.
 

 
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The US auto market after the dip in March, in May suffered a damper. Most manufacturers have faced harsh decline in sales, which was also due to the fact that there were fewer selling days than in the same month and thus less operating at the dealerships in the country. Among the biggest losers counted next leader General Motors (GM) once the crisis-ridden Volkswagen brand.

Analysts had expected a weaker month of May, which had held 26 days of sales as last year only 24. However, they had predicted an annualized sales figure of 17.3 million cars. GM figured this only to 17 million vehicles.

Significant losses at VW and BMW

The sales of Volkswagen broke in May by 17 percent to 28,779 vehicles on. Since the beginning of the year, the manufacturer has to contend with significant declines. The other brands of the Volkswagen Group performed better. The premium subsidiary Audi increased its sales by 1.6 percent to 18,728 vehicles. The sports car manufacturer Porsche thanks to the compact SUV Macan achieved an increase of 7.3 percent to 4578 cars.

premium manufacturer Mercedes-Benz ‘sales in passenger cars of its core brand sales drop of 1 percent to 29,299 cars. Competitor BMW sold the cars of his eponymous brand 29 017 pieces and thus even 6.4 percent.

Among the major US manufacturers GM was the biggest loser. Sales of US market leader broke in May by 18 percent to 240,450 vehicles. The Group had reduced its sales to rental car companies. In addition, there have been according to the company bottlenecks in new models.

SUVs and pickup trucks have a good time

Also, Ford sold a decline of 6.1 percent to 234,748 vehicles significantly less than last year. This was the sagging sales of passenger cars, the pickup trucks from the F-series hand reported a sales increase of 9 percent and Vans Group cut -. Led by the model Transit – perform as well as in 1978 no longer

<. p> Fiat Chrysler went because of strong demand for the Jeep brand continues uphill, albeit with an increase of 1.1 percent to 204,452 vehicles only slightly. Jeep grew by 14 percent and put as much from as never before in a month.

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The Asian manufacturers had to escape unscathed. At Toyota, the decline was almost 10 percent, with Honda 5 and Nissan 1 percent.

Large Car dealers in the US and market observers express themselves for some time concerned that the years of boom could draw to a close. enhanced help out, even if the low interest rates and cheap gasoline driving sales particularly expensive pickup trucks and SUVs, so had to dealers and manufacturers lately with high discounts and other sales incentives.

  Source: n-tv.de
 

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