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General Motors announces that Christmas came early for them. As it happens, GM is enjoying its best November US sales since 2007. To boot, November represented the best ever sales month for the Chevrolet Spark, Cruze and the Equinox crossover.
Out of the 225,818 vehicles the American auto giant moved over the past month, GM highlights it’s been the best November for GMC since 2001 and for the struggling Buick brand since 2003. In total, General Motors sales were up 6 percent compared to the same period last year, despite the millions of angry customers affected by the ongoing recall saga.
“The buzz around Black Friday helped drive strong showroom traffic but there was a lot more at work in the market,” said Kurt McNeil, VP of US sales. “More people have jobs and job security, their wages are starting to increase, household wealth is growing and low pump prices look like they’re here to stay through 2015. All of this helped deliver an exceptional month and it will help keep auto sales at very healthy levels going forward.”
As we noted beforehand, Chevrolet highlights include a 26 percent increase in Cruze sales, with total vehicles moved coming at 149,673 units. The second most best-selling General Motors brand in November was GMC, which boasts with 43,854 pickup trucks and sport utility vehicles moved in the month. As for the Buick brand, the LaCrosse moved 5,083 units out of the 19,143 November sales total.
Unfortunately for Cadillac, November 2014 was a bad month, with sales volume dropping 18.7 percent compared to November 2013 (13,148 automobiles vs 16,172). Bad markers include the Cadillac Escalade EXT (3 units sold) and the unpopular ELR plug-in hybrid (155 units sold). Despite it being 5 years old now, the SRX crossover sold 3,331 copies last month. Did you know the new-gen SRX will be called the XT5?
“The buzz around Black Friday helped drive strong showroom traffic but there was a lot more at work in the market,” said Kurt McNeil, VP of US sales. “More people have jobs and job security, their wages are starting to increase, household wealth is growing and low pump prices look like they’re here to stay through 2015. All of this helped deliver an exceptional month and it will help keep auto sales at very healthy levels going forward.”
As we noted beforehand, Chevrolet highlights include a 26 percent increase in Cruze sales, with total vehicles moved coming at 149,673 units. The second most best-selling General Motors brand in November was GMC, which boasts with 43,854 pickup trucks and sport utility vehicles moved in the month. As for the Buick brand, the LaCrosse moved 5,083 units out of the 19,143 November sales total.
Unfortunately for Cadillac, November 2014 was a bad month, with sales volume dropping 18.7 percent compared to November 2013 (13,148 automobiles vs 16,172). Bad markers include the Cadillac Escalade EXT (3 units sold) and the unpopular ELR plug-in hybrid (155 units sold). Despite it being 5 years old now, the SRX crossover sold 3,331 copies last month. Did you know the new-gen SRX will be called the XT5?
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