January Pickup Sales

Posts : 1925 Join date : 2013-02-27

Best-Selling Pickup Trucks: January 2014

Quote :: The big winners this month are the Nissan Frontier, Ram and the Toyota Tundra with a much stronger
January than their competitors (on a percentage basis).

Ram is catching up to the Chevrolet Silverado with less than 4000 units between them.

Posts : 1491 Join date : 2013-02-28 Location : About Mid AZ

I can't imagine GM allowing the Ram to catch up but it's getting close. I bet GM increases advertising and sales promos.

Subject: Re: January Pickup Sales February 5th 2014, 11:37 am

What happens when the Tundra passes the Sierra?
Take out the HDs and compare 1/2 ton to 1/2 ton and what are the numbers?

Subject: Re: January Pickup Sales February 5th 2014, 5:46 pm

The GM redesign seems to be a flop.

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The Silverado outsold the can do nothing wrong Camry. The Sierra 1/2 ton has been outsold by the Tundra many times in the past. Nothing new there. The GM twins sold 40k to the Ram's 25k. Hardly being taken over.

The Titan is a flop and will likely still be after it comes with a Cummins. Lipstick on a pig.

Subject: Re: January Pickup Sales February 6th 2014, 2:07 am

The GM twins should not have their sales combined.
They are stand alone divisions that have to make a business case individually.

Same with Equinox/Terrain, Traverse/Acadia, Malibu/LaCrosse etc.

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Diesel Dan wrote:: The GM twins should not have their sales combined.
They are stand alone divisions that have to make a business case individually.

Same with Equinox/Terrain, Traverse/Acadia, Malibu/LaCrosse etc.

I agree totally. General Motors make them and market them as two seperate vehicle lines, so the industry assesses them as two seperate vehicle lines. Simple as that. Everyone knows they are one and the same with a little badge engineering, but who are we to mass them together if GM themselves want them as two seperate entities.

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pup wrote:: The GM redesign seems to be a flop.

Was replying to this statement. The redesign outsells the Ram by a large margin. The Chevy outsells the Camry and is the #2 selling vehicle last month. Some failure it is.

Subject: Re: January Pickup Sales February 6th 2014, 12:39 pm

Ram ain't their target. But Ram is crawling up their 5.3liter ass.

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These sales numbers are BS anyway. They're really just production #'s of vehicles in the pipeline. A while back I was mentioning about a local Ram dealer that has a huge number of Ram pickups lined up in the back lot of a large shopping mall. They're still there. There's lots like that all over including the manufacturer's lots and train depots.

Subject: Re: January Pickup Sales February 6th 2014, 12:47 pm

It's comical that people still get butthurt over what a corporation sells or doesn't sell.

"You bought a new vehicle, so what, now buy another one." That's the extent of their loyalty to the customer.

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I wonder if GM even cares that Ram is about to sell more trucks than Chevrolet .

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Oh, I'm sure they care! Now they have to do something about it.

Subject: Re: January Pickup Sales February 6th 2014, 3:45 pm

toyboxrv wrote:: Was replying to this statement. The redesign outsells the Ram by a large margin. The Chevy outsells the Camry and is the #2 selling vehicle last month. Some failure it is.

Problem is the "new and improved" trucks are not gaining any market share back. Ram has been steadily moving up the ladder.
Couple more of these down months and the Silverado will not be the #2 selling vehicle.

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As predicted here come the discounts...

http://www.cnbc.com/id/101401059

Subject: Re: January Pickup Sales February 9th 2014, 2:10 am

Diseasel wrote:: As predicted here come the discounts...

http://www.cnbc.com/id/101401059

That's the case in my neck of the woods- the Chebby and Ford dealers have nearby vacant lots jammed full of unsold trucks (probably a hundred and fifty or so) . The "sales" numbers are a joke anyways- iirc the sales are booked by manufacturer to dealer, not dealer to consumer. It's a mostly meaningless number.

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The difference betwwen wholesale price and MSRP is so vast, there's tons of room to wittle the price down and make the consumer THINK he's getting a great deal. Not so much! As long as the buyer is happy in the end, that's all that matters I suppose.

Subject: Re: January Pickup Sales February 9th 2014, 10:27 am

rustbucket wrote:: - iirc the sales are booked by manufacturer to dealer, not dealer to consumer.

No, it is sales to the consumer be it retail or fleet.
What is sitting on the dealer lots is field supply. Field supply is measured in days. If GM sold 25 trucks per day last month and the total number of trucks currently in dealer inventory was 250 then they would have a 10 day supply. They use last months sales figures to determine this months field supply and can fluctuate widely.

Subject: Re: January Pickup Sales February 9th 2014, 2:29 pm

Diesel Dan wrote:

rustbucket wrote:: - iirc the sales are booked by manufacturer to dealer, not dealer to consumer.

No, it is sales to the consumer be it retail or fleet.
What is sitting on the dealer lots is field supply.

Thanks, I stand corrected, Dan.

They're using a lot of field over in town. The Ford and Chevy dealers have nearby lots packed full of trucks ... never seen anything like it the seven years we've been here. It's thinned out some since the beginning of Jan. so they are selling some.

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