All Of The Big Automakers Are Reporting Big Sales Drops

[FarCenter]

Here's a tally:

Ford: -7.5% (2.3% estimated)
GM: -12% (-2.5%)
Chrysler: +8% (+5.4%)
Toyota: -7.2% (-2.7%
Nissan: +11.8% (+10%)
Suburu: +19%
Volkswagen: -19%

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/january-us-auto-sales-2014-2

Those 4-wheel drive Suburus are good in snow.

[MicaelS]

1. Not surprising.

First, people are concentrating paying off their bills from the Holidays.

Second, all the car companies hype buying a car before the first of the year.

I would be surprised if they stayed the same, or went up.

[FarCenter]

2. Plus, I'd bet the cold and snowy weather kept people out of the showrooms.

The pent-up demand from the low sales in previous years may also have been satisfied by the high sales numbers posted in 2013.

[MicaelS]

4. Good point, hadn't thought of that. n/t

[Deep13]

3. Well, 4 out of 7. nt

[FarCenter]

7. "Big Automakers" -- GM, Ford and Toyota - the rest are much smaller sales.

Well, Nissan and Chrysler are sort of mid-pack.

[Deep13]

10. I see. nt

[Munificence]

5. Just maybe

it's because everybody is either fucking broke or smart enough to realize that buying a new car is probably the worse investment one can make unless they really really really need one.

[TreasonousBastard]

6. Dunno what Nissan did but...

Jeeps and Subarus probably stole some sales from the others with all the snow. And, January car sales are always down and the storms likely pushed them down further.

[LiberalEsto]

8. People don't want cars that spy on you, report your location,

disclose your gas mileage, etc. I suspect that may be at least a small part of it.

[brush]

9. Not so fast

January 2014 sales figures, and I assume those are for January, don't show the real picture.

Ford just had one of their best years ever in 2013, and Ford has been around forever.

Let's wait a while before we jump to a conclusion.