Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Fw: Re: NFC Say goodbye to your SUV's : BO just madethem extinct

[Jim Conforti (lndshrk]

At 03:26 PM 5/20/2009, cavallino_rapante [at] yahoo.com wrote:

> #1 = Toyota Corolla/Camry   ('big' is not an adjective used to 
> describe this vehicle, except before the word 'value' or the words 
> 'gross sales')
>
> #2 = Volkswagen Beetle (also, not 'big'.....)

  Really?  And where did your magic list come from?

  (That's my nice way of saying your data is flawed)

Because here is what Reuters had to say:

March 3, 2009; Reuters reported the 20 top-selling vehicles in the 
United States through February 2009 as reported by automakers.

Total sales of the top 20 vehicles fell 36.6 percent, or by 285,466 
units, to 493,498.

Following is a list of the top-20 selling vehicles, ranked by total units.

RANK VEHICLE                     2009     2008  '08 RANK % Chng
  1 Ford F-Series P/U            48,851   93,673       1  -47.8  <- truck
  2 Chevy Silverado-C/K P/U      43,775   80,218       2  -45.4  <- truck
  3 Toyota Camry                 41,416   66,515       3  -37.7
  4 Toyota Corolla               37,341   41,938       4  -11.0
  5 Honda Accord                 32,557   51,588       6  -36.9
  6 Nissan Altima                30,137   44,998       9  -33.0
  7 Honda Civic                  29,885   44,792       8  -33.3
  8 Dodge Ram P/U                27,291   42,544       5  -35.9 <- truck
  9 Honda CR-V                   25,513   31,710      11  -19.5 <- SUV
 10 Chevrolet Malibu             20,828   27,001      26  -22.9
 11 Ford Escape                  18,450   25,383      17  -27.3 <- SUV
 12 Ford Focus                   17,673   27,902      15  -36.7
 13 Toyota RAV4                  16,432   21,274      18  -22.8 <- SUV
 14 Ford Fusion                  15,755   24,163      20  -34.8
 15 Jeep Wrangler                15,450   13,225          +16.8 <- SUV
 16 Toyota Prius                 15,353   22,272      16  -31.1
 17 Chevrolet Impala             14,867   42,740       7  -65.2
 18 GMC Sierra P/U               14,420   28,288      12  -49.0 <- Truck
 19 Mazda 3                      13,996   14,472           -3.3
 20 Chevrolet Cobalt             13,508   34,268      14  -60.6

You'll note that Autodata also says similar things.

Please note that sales of the JEEP WRANGLER - which gets about 14mpg
beat out the Prius which gets near 50mpg.

Oh, and for the record - in the month of April 2009, per Autodata.

GM sold 100,375 trucks - Ford sold 78,912 - Chrysler sold 61,124

Toyota sold 77,851 cars - Honda 67,514 - and VW a measly 16,289

Seems to me that light trucks (which include SUV's) are handily trouncing
the fuel efficient econo-box in sales.
Jim