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June 6, 2005
Top Ten Best Selling Cars for May -- Mustang Still Galloping, Toyota Has Unprecedented Top Two Movers
The Big Blue Oval could move 200,000 Ponies at current rate
With another month of Mustang fever under its belt, Ford could possibly sell 200,000 units of the hottest sports car in the country. As previously reported in the Notebook, Ford had projected sales of 160-165,000 Mustangs in 2005, but May's performance has the car on an annualized selling rate of 195,698 vehicles. Sales were up 46.9% for the month and nearly 25% for the year-to-date.
Despite turning in a disappointing flat sales month -- and actual drops for the Camry and Corolla -- Toyota still has the top two best selling cars in the country. This is just as amazing as it's been all year -- and it's still just as amazing that no other journalists are taking notice of it. Ah well, I've been plagiarized half a dozen times this year so far, so it's just a matter of time until someone sees these stats and appropriates them as their own.
Besides the Mustang, the only other car turning in an improvement this month was the Nissan Altima, which has been doing well all year. Of the big six automakers, Nissan was the only company to turn in an overall sales increase in May, when industry sales were down a total of 8%.
The new Chevy Cobalt is selling well, after making its first appearance in the top ten last month, and I think it's well deserved. I just finished a week with the Cobalt and was pleasantly surprised with the car's styling and performance. I especially liked the 145-hp engine, which seemed to me to be right-sized for the class. The Cobalt appeared in the number seven postion last month, this month it moves into number six.
What to say about Honda? Of the bix six companies, they suffered the biggest drop in sales, 14.7%, the main reason being the stupendous falloff of their cars, as you can see above with the Accord and Civic.
Posted by Frank at June 6, 2005 8:55 AM | Filed under Auto News
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