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

[Jim Conforti (lndshrk]

At 08:01 AM 5/21/2009, you wrote:
> Jim, I'm just shaking my head at this one.....YOU PROVED MY POINT.

  And how did I do that Michael?

  The numbers clearly show in black and white that as of last month
  Both GM and Ford are selling more TRUCKS/SUVS than Honda/Toyota
  are selling CARS.

  In fact, GM "Light Trucks" sold more than ANYTHING else by ANY
  manufacturer in the Car/Light Truck category.

  Oh, but wait - it doesn't fit your pre-conceived notions
  so you'll dance around the issue endlessly.

  (Loony Lib argument tactic #71 - if you have screwed up and gotten caught
   in your lies - keep moving the target and dancing around until you
   are either right (and say "HA!") or you tire out your opponent.
   Reserve "I'm TIRED OF POLITICS ON THIS LIST" for last ditch efforts)

  Oh, and that BLOG you linked - was cars selling ALLTIME - in the WORLD.

  (As is the opinion of some random computer programmer in India!)

  The presence of the Nissan SUNNY and the LADA RIVA should have
  given that away.  They've never been sold in the USA.

  As has been the case for YEARS, large vehicles outsell SMALL vehicles
  in the USA.  Many of the vehicles we drive here wouldn't even FIT on
  the roads in the rest of the world.

  BTW - so the rest of you can see this list - those who(m) are too lazy
  to click the link - here is the verbatim list from the BLOG (of some
  random computer programmer from India) Michael is quoting.

  1) Toyota Corolla  (note: not Corolla/Camry)
  2) Ford F Series
  3) Volkswagen Golf (one must presume they are also including the Rabbit)
  4) Volkswagen Beetle
  5) Ford Escort
  6) Honda Civic
  7) Ford Model T
  8) Nissan Sunny/Sentra/Pulsar/Tsuru
  9) Volkswagen Passat
 10) Lada Riva

And here are the current US sales as of Apr 2009 courtesy of Autodata

  Apr 2009
General Motors Corp. 172,150
  Total Cars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71,775
  Total Light Trucks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100,375
    memo: Saab. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 892
Ford Motor Company 133,979
  Total Cars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55,067
  Total Light Trucks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78,912
    memo: Volvo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,503
Chrysler LLC 76,682
  Total Cars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,558
  Total Light Trucks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61,124
Toyota Motor Sales U.S.A. Inc. 126,540
  Total Cars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77,851
  Total Light Trucks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48,689
American Honda Motor Co. Inc. 101,029
  Total Cars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67,514
  Total Light Trucks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33,515
Nissan North America Inc. 47,190
  Total Cars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30,249
  Total Light Trucks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16,941
Volkswagen Group of America Inc. 23,441
  Audi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,010
  Volkswagen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16,289
  Bentley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
  Lamborghini  (Estimate) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Mitsubishi Motors N. A., Inc. 3,919
  Total Cars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,689
  Total Light Trucks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,230
Mazda Motor of America Inc. 16,139
  Total Cars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,377
  Total Light Trucks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,762
Hyundai Motor America 33,952
  Total Cars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27,406
  Total Light Trucks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,546
BMW of North America Inc. 19,393
  BMW . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,705
  Mini . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,657
  Rolls Royce . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Daimler AG 15,927
  Mercedes-Benz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 
. . . . . 14,575
  Maybach. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
  Smart. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,345
Subaru of America Inc. 15,649
  Total Cars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,127
  Total Light Trucks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,522
Kia Motors America Inc. 25,606
  Total Cars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16,588
  Total Light Trucks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,018
Isuzu Motors America Inc. 0
American Suzuki Motor Corp. 2,543
  Total Cars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473
  Total Light Trucks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,070
Jaguar Land Rover N.A. LLC 3,324
  Jaguar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,281
  Land Rover. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,043
Porsche Cars N.A. Inc. 1,853
  Total Cars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 967
  Total Light Trucks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 886
Ferrari of N.A. Inc. 116
Maserati of N.A. Inc. 108