SHOPSMART AUTOS – CUSTOMER INFORMATION – MAY 11, 2021(Part Two)
How Consumer’s Brought Vehicles In The First Quarter Of This YearFord’s
sales were up 1 percent through the first quarter, and as at GM, total sales were weighed down by falling fleet sales. Retail sales grew by 23 percent. Ford’s trucks and SUVs saw sales grew by 5 and 14 percent, respectively. Cuts to the car lineup weighed on overall results—much as it has for the past year—but the popularity of the new
Bronco Sport
and the electric
Mach-E
cushioned those declines. Stellantis—which was formerly FCA—had sales increase by 5 percent through the quarter.
Jeep
,
Ram
, and
Chrysler
all saw their sales jump by at least 8 percent. There were 16 percent more Ram pickups sold this past quarter than in the first quarter of 2020, along with 25 percent more
Wranglers
and 10 percent more
Grand Cherokees
.
Honda
saw its best month ever in March, and through the quarter saw sales increase by 16 percent. Honda’s trucks and SUVs were up by 34 percent through the quarter, with the
CR-V
up by 32 percent and the
Pilot
by 32 percent. In March, Honda and
Acura’s
sedan sales performed well, with the brand, as a whole, up 44 percent for the car division.
Tesla
, who only reports global sales—the rest of the automakers report U.S. sales—saw global deliveries more than double this past quarter as compared to the first quarter of 2020.
Model 3
and
Model Y
deliveries (Tesla reports them together) increased by 139 percent through the quarter, likely due to sales in China.
Model S
and
Model X
sales, on the other hand, declined from 12,200 total sales last year to 2,020 sales this past quarter.
Hyundai’s
sales jumped by 28 percent in the first quarter, thanks in part to a 115 percent increase in sales in the month of March—the company’s best month ever. Hyundai is a bit of an outlier in how well its sedans have performed. In the truck/SUV category, Hyundai’s most popular vehicles this past quarter, the
Tucson
and
Santa Fe
, saw sales increase by 40 and 44 percent. Hyundai’s corporate sibling
Kia
also saw its best month ever, while sales grew by 16 percent through the quarter. Sales of the
Telluride
and
Sportage
, the automaker’s two most popular SUVs, increased by 30 and 12 percent respectively. Kia’s small sedan and second-most popular vehicle in the first quarter, the
Forte
, sees consistently high sales, and this past quarter was no different as sales grew by 11 percent.
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