GM sales down 41%. Just the mere possibility of bankruptcy has already caused GM sales to decline more sharply.
Toyota passenger car sales are down 32%, despite 0% financing. Toyota trucks down 36%.
Ford sales down 32%.
Honda sales down 32%.
Ralph
Across the board pain and woe…everyone is sittin on their wallets and not making any major purchases.
Maybe they have woken up and realised the vehicles on offer are not appropriate to cope with the impending disaster being caused by climate change. 
Prolly more to do with the fact gas shot up over $4 a gallon this summer…so no one was buying the gas hogs…Thanks Investment Bankers…good thing tar and feathers is outta style…
“good thing tar and feathers is outta style”
They didn’t go out of style, but the balls to stand up to the crooks took a back seat to “'what’s in it for me?”
Show me a politician that isn’t a crook and I’ll show you a politician in his or her first term.
Sales weren’t as bad during the summer.
Everybody is, indeed, sitting on their wallets.
Choking the economy even more.
This is what happens when the President of the United States pulls a “Chicken Little”.
If you need a new car or truck, now is probably a great time to buy.
Ralph
Guy I know is selling is Dodge Ram PU with cap, and a 22 foot race trailer for $6000, and getting no takers. The economy sucks everywhere. If I had $6000 extra, Id probably get it, but I dont. Thus me selling off all my extra RR stuff.
Saw a Smart for sale in a used car lot, asking price?.. $17K+ 
You know, Toyota car sales are down also, and now they are being made in Kentucky… I think we should all just go and bail them all out… It will still affect american workers and jobs…
How many ““not Profitable”” dealers have been closed lately??? before the market fall…
Now, the auto dealers are talking about closing small dealerships… This should have been thought about years ago, after all, isn’t that why these so called CEO’s make the BIG BUCKS??? They have to have a fleet of aircraft to get to meetings, because they are making all these decisions…
Now, they are going drive to washington in ““fuel”” effecient cars… Oh my, what if one of them breaks down??? Then, they can see the products they are actually putting out…
They factories are getting more computer operated all the time, and there is a bit less ““Skilled”” work required as there was before, but the wages keep going up… they are so inflated as to the actual work required, that, working for an american car maker is like receiving a CEO’s pay, only a few years ago… All i ever here from American car makers, is what they can’t do, not anything that they can do… If a hybred vehicle has a small engine in it like a riding lawn mower, and a few batteries that cost 100 bucks each, then why are these cars twice the price of new “regular” cars??? All the new cars have computers in them for everything… It’s all just a scam… We need vehicles and they can demand what they want, or so they think…
just my 2 cents worth, tyvm…
Andy,
The last three new cars I’ve owned have been great cars.
But the cars are so much more complicated, overrun with sensors, that they are very difficult for the backyard mechanic to work on.
I work on my old car and pick-up. But if my wife’s car ever needs anything, it will go to the dealer.
As for the computers and everything else, for the most part you can blame emission and fuel mileage standards. The very things that make the cars better…also make them disposable.
Ralph
Does anyone know what percentage of ANY new car made in the USA is fully recyclable?
I believe BMW’s are currently something like 85% and will be 95% by 2015.
http://www.letsrecycle.com/do/ecco.py/view_item?listid=37&listcatid=271&listitemid=4633.
Tony,
You asked -
“Does anyone know what percentage of ANY new car made in the USA is fully recyclable?”
For many about 200%. 100% of the car is recycled to Mexico, run for another 10 years and then shipped to Cuba for the next 40 years.
The ballast on the KVRwy is recycled automobile parts that are not metals or some other recycled material that is turned into “slag” and recycled as ballast and fill. Just our little part to save the World.
Ralph, great cars are one thing, but great automakers anymore are totally non-existent… they design cars for the next 20 years, and forget about focusing just on tomorrow… They hire the engineers to draw up a car for 2025, or just what they perceive to be a car for that time period… Look at the recalls for parts that are bad, designed, or built, which ever doesn’t matter, it’s a bad part… Automakers pay dearly to ““recall and fix”” these vehicles out of their own pocket, because something was overlooked in the design, or the build… Congress mandated a few years ago, that 2 years from now, Automakers will have more fule effecient vehicles… well, where are they??? 2 years ago, SUV’s and pickuptrucks were to be more fuel effecient, but they aren’t, not really… What they did, was to redesign the ““MPG”” rating procedures… The automakers make a mockery of congress trying to mandate better vehicles… they fought against airbags, because they would make the cars too expensive… like they give a crap about a human life… It’s only the bottom line for them, the dollar they can make…
Sure, let me pay taxes, so that the ““government”” can make the automakers more wealthy… That’s just the way I want my taxes spent…
life gets better…