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General Motors US May 2014 Sales Up 13 percent


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  • By Zane Merva

    Executive Editor, GM-Trucks.com

    6/3/2014

     

    General Motors reported United States May 2014 sales figures this morning. The company's dealer network delivered 284,694 vehicles last month, up 13% from May of 2013. It was the company's best May sales numbers in seven years.

     

    Sales of the full-size Silverado and Sierra also saw a bounce, with the Silverado gaining 8-percent and the Sierra gaining a healthy 14-percent over last May's figures. Sales of GM's all new 2015 full-size SUVs doubled.

2014 May Sales Highlights vs May 2013 (some notes taken from GM Press Release)

  • Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra sales were up for the third month in a row, with May deliveries up 8 percent and 14 percent, respectively.
  • Retail sales of Chevrolet and GMC large SUVs doubled, while retail sales of the Chevrolet Equinox and GMC Terrain were up 16 percent and 13 percent, respectively.
  • Chevrolet sales up 14%
  • Buick up 11% w/ best May since 2005
  • The seasonally adjusted annual selling rate (SAAR) for light vehicles was an estimated 16.5 million units – the third consecutive month above 16 million.
  • Cruze was up 41 percent. Chevrolet Corvette deliveries were up 268 percent, Spark sales doubled, Camaro was up 30 percent and Impala was up 23 percent. Malibu retail sales were up 12 percent.
  • At Cadillac, sales of the CTS sedan were up 39 percent and Escalade deliveries were up 30 percent. SRX sales were up 27 percent, for the vehicle line’s best May ever.
  • Buick Encore deliveries more than doubled and Regal sales were up 49 percent.
  • GM’s average transaction prices (ATPs), including full-size pickup ATPs, were in line with April. Calendar year to date, GM’s ATPs are up about $2,700.
  • Incentive spending as a percentage of average transaction price was 10.4 percent, down 0.5 points from a year ago, according to J.D. Power PIN estimates. The industry average for May was 9.9 percent.
  • Commercial fleet sales were up 21 percent for the seventh consecutive monthly increase and the best month since September 2008. Within commercial fleet, full-size van sales were up 46 percent and full-size pickups were up 35 percent.
  • Small business deliveries, which are included in retail sales, were up 10 percent.

 


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Would you rather have a co that will recall when THEY find something or one that will ignore things?

 

That is the question you have to ask yourself at purchase. Right now GM is under scrutiny, recalls would

not weigh in on my decision to purchase one.

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All brands seem to be having recalls, people are getting use to it.

Any time there is a massive recall like this it puts all the brands on high alert and they'll release a wave of seemingly meaningless recalls as a covering their butt move.

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