<\/a><\/p>\nAt GM, the biggest problem wasn\u2019t the strike but the dropping of nameplates; Cruze was down 82%, XTS was down 72%, Sonic was down 71%, CTS was down 70%, and Impala was down 41%. Of all those nameplates, the Cruze came down hardest, from nearly 32,000 to 5,800 (third quarter 2019 to third quarter 2018). GM had a bunch of big winners, though; the XT4 easily doubled the old XTS\u2019 figure, the Trax shot up by 82%, the Acadia had a 51% gain, and, most importantly (because it had good sales before, too), the Sierra went up 29%. \u00a0<\/span>Despite low gas prices, the Bolt electric vehicle posted 4,830 sales, a 22% gain\u2014but the Volt was dropped, and the sales gain for the Bolt didn\u2019t match the loss from the Volt. (Coming next: the Zolt and the Molt.)<\/p>\nSpeaking of electric vehicles, Tesla\u2019s sold around 97,000 cars in the U.S. so far this year, which is a new record for them. The U.S. auto market dropped by around 1.6% year-to-date, with Toyota falling 2.5%, Nissan Mitsubishi falling 6.4%, and Honda dropping around 0.1%.<\/p>\n
Sales aren\u2019t everything; increasing low-profit fleet deliveries or slapping cash on the hood can jumpstart sales as well as customer demand.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s more to come\u2014including who\u2019s winning the muscle-car race, who wins in big cars and SUVs, and more.\u00a0Bill Cawthon contributed to this story.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The GM strike isn\u2019t hurting sales so far, if we can generalize from the company\u2019s U.S. sales over the last quarter. GM had a gain of 6.2%, while Ford fell 5.1% and FCA stayed just about the same. Not surprisingly, GM kept its lead over Ford, with sales of 737,270 for the quarter vs Ford’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":517,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,3,4,10,2],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.autobison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/silverado-duramax.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.autobison.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.autobison.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.autobison.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.autobison.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.autobison.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=668"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.autobison.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":675,"href":"https:\/\/www.autobison.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668\/revisions\/675"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.autobison.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.autobison.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.autobison.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.autobison.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}