Hyundai lead US sales figures
February 5, 2009 by Matt Brogan
Strong sales of the Sonata sedan and Santa Fe have helped Hyundai become one of only three brands to record higher US sales for the month of January.
Kia and Subaru also saw gains in January while all other brands trading in the US have seen a decline in sales figures for that month.
Hyundai reported sales of 24,512 vehicles in January, a 14.3 per cent increase over January 2008. Kia sales rose 3.5 per cent. Combined, Hyundai and Kia were up 8.9 percent in a US market that plunged 37.1 percent in total (month-on-month as compared to 2008).
The Sonata mid-sized sedan led the way with sales of 8508 units, up 85.5 percent from 4587 during the same month last year. Hyundai sold 5024 Santa Fes, up 35.2 percent from 3716 units last year.
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Frugal one! I didn’t realise you were that silly!!
Read the report, Hyundai had a sales INCREASE. It did not out sell Toyota, Nissan, Mazda or the BIG 3 that you seem so interested in telling them they are wrong.
Face the facts, the best selling vehicle in the USA for 2008 (and by not some inconsiderable margin mind you) was the F150 pick-up! To be honest, with just over 500,000 F150’s sold last year they are way down on their previuos marks of 900,000+, but for a single vehicle to sell (on average) 41,000 per month as opposed to a total brand sale of 25,000, can you see the mistake in your comment?? Maybe it was the rush to be the first to comment that you over looked this little fact ;-)
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BTW congrats Hyundai on a good effort anyhow :-)
Frontman, 100% correct – another missleading deliberately sensationalist headline perhaps?
Hey the headline works okay, in context of the story. The one I complained about was actually just plain incorrect. However, as per all stories there is always more that can be reported on than the Journo’s have room for :-)
Ha ha ha, cheap shot but has anyone noticed that the flashing banner for today is Hyundai????
(okay I know back in the box :-( )
that is not that great! toyota almost sells that many cars here in a month n the US market is more then 10 times bigger then the aus.
Frugals not wrong – The figures are nothing to do with the number of sales just whats selling and Hyundai’s sales have increased. Geddit.
So Frugals correct in saying sell what people want and not what you think they want.
So Frontman you’re not strictly correct either. Read the Article again this timne without the blinkers on.
CS, took blinkers off, put glasses on, stood on head and still come up with the same analogy, good result for Hyundai, but still a VERY VERY VERY small amount of cars in the grand scheme of things that is the US car market. Consider that Ford (yes I know that I have the blinkers on apparently, but I’ll quote on what I know)for the month of January had a poor showing and were down -39.5% yet still managed to deliver 79,322 vehicles. Just in passenger cars alone, Ford almost equaled the total Hyundai output (22,216). It’s much the same as Fiat saying they had a 200% growht in Australia, SSangyong had a 300% downturn etc, all figure sound big, but look at the total picture.
But as I did say, congrats to Hyundai for the good job
I read the headline as “Hyundai lead US sales figures” Doesn’t this mean they are number one if they’re leading?
Either way, Hyundai make better cars than Toyota. Thankfully people are starting to take notice.
Month to month sales really do not mean anything. In fact, they can often be very misleading.
Hyundai January sales are actually in a 3 year sales decline.
They sold more vehicles in Jan 2007 then either Jan 2008 or Jan 2009.
Dec 2008 sales were off by 48%.
Uh…they didn’t extactly report it that way on the TV news.