U.S. AUTO SALES BY BRAND - AUGUST 2010

With limited Macbook time available and Hurricane Earl approaching, The Good Car Guy has to spit out preliminary auto sales date for the month of August 2010 in particularly speedy fashion. Thus, this post combines the Top 10 Best-Selling Auto Brands and Top 10 Best-Selling Luxury Auto Brands articles you normally see at this time of every month. As an added bonus, GoodCarBadCar.net has gone and done the U.S. Auto Sales By Brand post just like the Canadian version: full and free.

Thus, three points you must know before scrolling down to analyze for yourself. Cash For Clunkers is really screwing with the numbers. Sales Stats from last August are deceivingly lofty because C4C produced huge auto sales of less-expensive automotive machinery for a good portion of the month. Comparing this August's auto sales with last August's is like comparing Granny Smith apples with Red Delicious apples: relevant, but only to a degree. Regardless, luxury auto sales definitely jumped. 

Second, BMW was America's best-selling luxury auto brand in August 2010. Third, Saab sold cars in August. That's weird.

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Ford: -10.7% to 144,035

Chevrolet: -21.5% to 131,952

Toyota: -36.2% to 128,923

Honda: -36% to 97,195

Nissan: -30.9% to 67,399

Hyundai: -11.4% to 53,603

Dodge: +7.6% to 35,364

Kia: -19.2% to 32,465

GMC: +12.3% to 25,986

Jeep: +16.6% to 25,706

Volkswagen: -7.9% to 22,855

Subaru: -22.5% to 22,239

Ram: +4.7% to 20,604

Mazda: -25.6% to 19,739

BMW: +1.6% to 19,540

Lexus: -15% to 19,465

Mercedes-Benz: +10% to 18,826

Chrysler: -3.8% to 17,937

Buick: +66% to 14,294

Cadillac: +83.1% to 12,689

Acura: +19.8% to 11,534

Infiniti: +21.9% to 9,428

Audi: +14% to 9,182

Mercury: -22.5% to 7,040

Lincoln: +9.4% to 6,428

Volvo: -23.8% to 4,421

Mini: -13.4% to 4,425

Mitsubishi: -37% to 4,293

Land Rover: +11.3% to 2,544

Porsche: +33.2% to 2,032

Suzuki: -68.2% to 1,830

Jaguar: +61.6% to 1,414

smart: -72.4% to 448

Hummer: -73.6% to 205

Saab: -40.1% to 290

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