Minggu, 24 Oktober 2010

Sporty Car Sales And Premium Sporty Car Sales In Canada - September 2010

Regardless of what analysts and critics expected, the 2011 Honda CR-Z is not a flop. How it will be remembered remains to be seen, but the CR-Z is finding buyers, particularly south of the border. Although out-sold by vehicles as varied as the Audi A5 and Hyundai Genesis Coupe, the CR-Z easily handled the Mitsubishi Eclipse and Mazda Miata. Potential CR-Z buyers could be driving anything from the Eclipse to the Volkswagen GTI or perhaps have found themselves disappointed with their Honda Insight. It's hard to nail down the cross-shopping tendencies of coupe buyers. 

Although sales of the Hyundai Genesis sedan are slowing, Genesis Coupe sales increased 7.1% in September 2010 in Canada. Still, the Genesis Coupe is a mighty low-volume car, out-selling only the Genesis sedan and the Veracruz SUV in Hyundai showrooms. 

Talk about slowing sales: autumn in Canada is not the season for purchasing German luxo-coupes and roadsters. Audi TT sales fell from 45 in August to 22 in September 2010. The handsome BMW Z4 suffered a drop from 35 to 12. Combined sales of the Porsche Boxster and Cayman went from 9 to 7. Even the hot-selling Audi A5 and its hot-engined S5 sibling fell from August 2010's 196 to 140 last month. Of the lot, only the Mercedes-Benz SLK remained at par with August, but SLK sales did drop ever-so-slightly from September 2009. TT, A5, Z4, and Boxster/Cayman sales were down compared with the same period of 2009, too.

The Nissan GT-R appears to have had its day, at least in a market which lacks the number of individuals with the type of income to support level long-term sales. September 2010 sales of the twin-turbocharged, all-wheel drive Japanese monster were down 70%. Through the first three quarters of 2010 Nissan GT-R sales are half what they were in 2009. GT-R sales slid 3% in 2009, as well. It's actually kind of hard to use the "small market, not enough long-term potential" excuse on Nissan Canada since sales of cars like the Audi R8, Porsche 911, Jaguar XK, Mercedes-Benz's SL/SLS AMG duo are either up on 2009 levels or nearly level.

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Sabtu, 23 Oktober 2010

Minivan Sales And Muscle Cars In Canada - September 2010

In the more price-sensitive Canadian market, the 2010 Chevrolet Camaro doesn't appear likely to challenge the on-sale-now 2011 Ford Mustang for muscle car sales supremacy. Unlike in the United States, where the Camaro seems to have locked up the title for 2010's best-selling muscle car/pony car with an apparently insurmountable lead, Canadian buyers spread their love to the less-expensive Ford. The 2011 Ford Mustang has a base price of $22,999. The 2011 Chevrolet Camaro has a base price of $26,995. The 2010 Dodge Challenger, by the way, currently starts at $25,995.

It happens to be The Good Car Guy's opinion that, in this segment at least, the least-expensive model is also the most appealing. The same can't be necessarily be said of maximinivans. The Dodge Grand Caravan is.... alright. What you really want, however, is a 2011 Toyota Sienna, the Swagger Wagon. In Canada, the Sienna and just-coming-on-stream 2011 Honda Odyssey will be fighting for second place for the foreseeable future. Grand Caravan sales, even without the Chrysler Town & Country, were still 4232 units strong in September. As it stood at the end of September 2010, the Toyota Sienna was leading the outgoing Honda Odyssey model by about 1800 sales.

In the mostly-separate Mazda 5 vs Kia Rondo sales battle, the Mazda (which also happens to be ahead of the Honda Odyssey year-to-date) leads the Rondo by over 500 sales through the end of September.


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Jumat, 22 Oktober 2010

Midsize Luxury Car Sales And Large Luxury Car Sales In Canada - September 2010

Nothing says "wife of a retired lawyer" quite like a Mercedes-Benz E-Class. Well, except in Europe where the E-Class says "taxi" better than anything else. The stereotype can't hold true, can it? I mean, Mercedes-Benz Canada sold 338 E-Class & CLS-Class sedans in September 2010, up from 286 in September 2009. There can't be 338 wives of retires lawyers out looking for a new Benz in Canada during the 30 days of September, can there? Of course not. It figures that there'd be about 200 wives of retires lawyers, the remaining sales going to husbands of retired lawyers, men who chauffeur their powerful wives to local wine bars.

Ah, stereotypes. Car buyers are just like the buyers of everything else. Even as we all need a toaster, and thus no toaster designer can accurately predict the exact demographic of his or her future buyer, no auto sales analyst can come close to identifying the buyer of a luxury sedan. They say - whoever they are - that luxury car buyers don't want front-wheel drive. Tell that to the 2095 people in Canada who've bought an Acura TL in 2010 and the 240 people who acquired a new Lexus ES in September.

Of course, there are certain stereotypes which became stereotypes because they're true. It seems quite certain that the 16 Audi A8 buyers in Canada last month all went for the A8 because they didn't want a Jaguar XJ, Mercedes S-Class, BMW 7-Series, Lexus LS, or Porsche Panamera. 

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Compact Luxury Car Sales And Small/Entry Luxury Car Sales In Canada - September 2010

The Good Car Guy has often been exultant when describing sales of the BMW 3-Series. Globally, the 3-Series is a power. In the UK, it's not uncommon to see the 3-Series as a Best Seller. Not only did the 2010 BMW 3-Series land at #9 on the Canadian Best-Selling Cars list in September, though; the 3-Series also laid hold on an impressive 52.6% increase over September 2009 sales levels.

Of cars mentioned in the Graphs below, the following models also posted sales increases compared with September 2009: Acura TSX, Audi A4, Cadillac CTS, Lexus HS250h, Mercdedes-Benz C-Class, and Volvo S60. Speaking of the 2011 Volvo S60, it's been shifted from its place in the Midsize Luxury Cars group, in part due to its Canadian base MSRP of $45,450, about the same as a BMW 328i xDrive. 

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Kamis, 21 Oktober 2010

IIHS Examines Insurance Losses By Vehicle Model

The Insurance Institute For Highway Safety and the Highway Loss Data Institute have finished compiling the data on insurance losses by vehicle type and specific models. "Loss results are stated in relative terms," the study says. "100 represents the average result for all vehicles in each loss coverage category." Rated across various fields (collision, property damage liability, comprehensive, personal injury protection, medical payment, and bodily injury liability), the easiest way to understand the ratings are by the colour in the "All Coverages" section.

Yellow is substantially better than average. Dark yellowish-orange is better than average. Peachy-pink is average. Orange is worse than average. Red is substantially worse than average. White means "insufficient data to compute a reliable result".

What's it all mean? Well, that's something to take up with your insurance provider, not The Good Car Guy. Basically, from the insurance industry's perspective, the following vehicles are - in relative terms, the ones with the lowest instance of loss: Chevrolet Corvette, Mazda Miata, Volkswagen New Beetle, Saturn Sky, Honda Pilot, Hyundai Veracruz, Honda CR-V Subaru Outback, and Toyota 4Runner.

From your perspective, you're interested in finding the least expensive cars to insure. GoodCarBadCar.net has that data, too. Automotive insurance is the unspoken word tandem in most North American car reviews, an almost mysterious extra best left to the consumer after his new car purchase. The more information on auto insurance you have under your belt before heading out to find your new vehicular love the better.

After the jump you can find vehicles grouped by segment type, midsize sedans or large luxury cars or small luxury SUVs or whatever possible permutation anybody's ever been able to come up with.

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Rabu, 20 Oktober 2010

Midsize Car Sales And Large Car Sales In Canada - September 2010

Some people wouldn't think to say Toyota sold more midsize cars than anybody else in Canada in September 2010. Here's why: sales of the Toyota Camry fell to 683 from 1309 last September. Nissan Canada sold 1685 Altimas in September 2010, so how did Toyota beat Nissan, or the Ford Fusion's 1525 sales or the 2011 Hyundai Sonata's 1196? Or, for that matter, the Honda Accord's 1025 sales or the Chevrolet Malibu's 998? 

The Toyota Venza, approximately ten times less popular than the Camry in the United States, is a star for Toyota Canada. Venza sales were almost double the Camry's total in Canada in September and, year-to-date, the Venza trails the Camry by only 821 units, a figure which seems surmountable by New Year's Eve 2010. Take the 2010 Toyota Venza away from Toyota in September and the brand's total sales volume drops to 11,965, behind Dodge and Honda for fourth in Canada. With the Venza, Toyota was #2.

Then, of course, you have the Toyota Avalon. A rare sight even in the U.S. car market, a market more accepting of big cars, the Avalon is scarcely seen in Canada. In 2010, only 402 have been sold in all of Canada through September 30th. The Avalon trailed all direct competitors in September 2010 by gigantic margins. 

Worth noting: Chrysler 300 sales dropped 54.8% in September 2010. Sales of the Dodge Charger fell 58.6%. Chrysler Sebring volume plummeted an astonishing 84.7%. Astonishing? What does that make the Dodge Avenger drop? 91% must be downright frightening. The arrival of the 2011 Chrysler 200 should improve things, but only temporarily. Chrysler and Dodge need an all-new midsize product.

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Subcompact Car Sales And Compact Car Sales In Canada - September 2010

Hyundai's market share dominance in the subcompact car category in Canada each and every month, in September most obviously here, isn't enough to overcome the Honda Civic in Canada's overall small car arena. Even when the Accent's sales totals were paired with the Hyundai Elantras for September, Hyundai only tallies 5206 sales. Honda meanwhile, sold nearly 6000 Civics plus a few hundred Fit hatchbacks. Toyota, on the other hand, threw down with its Corolla/Matrix tandem. Even then, however, when paired with the Toyota Yaris, Toyota's small car trio couldn't even out-sell the Civic. 

What about Mazda? The new 2011 Mazda 2 is starting to collect itself, but the Mazda 3 had a rough month in September 2010. Sales of Mazda's most popular vehicle were down 12%. Together, the Mazda 2 and Mazda 3 grabbed only 4350 customers. 

This speaks volumes about the Honda Civic's continued dominance in Canada, extending its year-to-date lead over the Mazda 3 by a couple thousand units in September 2010. But it should be pointed out that Honda Civic sales in Canada fell 16% in September. Perhaps discounts up to $7000 on 2010 Chevrolet Cobalts ate away slightly; perhaps September 2009 was an almighty month. At that time, September 2009 sales of the Honda Civic in Canada were up 32% over September 2008 levels. Honda's September 2010 sales level for the Civic has both September 2008 and September 2007 beat.

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