Comments on: Hyundai lead US sales figures

By: Logan

Logan — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 18:22:04 +0000

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.

By: SteveC

SteveC — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 11:31:15 +0000

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.

By: Frontman

Frontman — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 22:55:09 +0000

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

By: Cupid Stunt

Cupid Stunt — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 12:24:10 +0000

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.

By: mark

mark — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 10:06:58 +0000

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.

By: Frontman

Frontman — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 01:58:03 +0000

Ha ha ha, cheap shot but has anyone noticed that the flashing banner for today is Hyundai????

(okay I know back in the box :-( )

By: Frontman

Frontman — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 01:51:28 +0000

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 :-)

By: Thommo

Thommo — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 00:04:39 +0000

Frontman, 100% correct – another missleading deliberately sensationalist headline perhaps?

By: Frontman

Frontman — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 00:01:47 +0000

>>>>> Spam word Hyundai<<<<<<
BTW congrats Hyundai on a good effort anyhow :-)

By: Frontman

Frontman — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 00:00:57 +0000

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 ;-)

By: FRUGAL_ONE

FRUGAL_ONE — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 23:25:36 +0000

*****PRIMO!*****

Lesson for the “BIG3″

BUILD WHAT THE CUSTOMER WANTS TO BUY AND NOT JUST WHAT YOU WANT TO DISH OUT

Here ends the lesson

Cheers

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