{"id":8374,"date":"2010-03-05T11:10:41","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T16:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/?p=8374"},"modified":"2016-09-20T06:36:42","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T10:36:42","slug":"auto-sales-ford-f-is-eating-toyotas-lunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/05\/auto-sales-ford-f-is-eating-toyotas-lunch\/","title":{"rendered":"Auto Sales &#8211; Ford (F) is Eating Toyota&#8217;s Lunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Year over Year, auto sales are looking good. Most of this is due to the comparison off of a low base. I other words, we are looking at the data from some of the worst times of 2009 and comparing it to those of today. While this is a good start, the rate is still off of the 15 million average annual over the past number of years. Still, many are predicting that<!--more--> we will get there this year.<\/p>\n<p>Hope or Hype?<\/p>\n<p>A few additional data points:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Car Sales: FORD Walloped them: 43% up YOY<\/li>\n<li> Chrysler beat analysts\u2018 average projection for a decline of 18 percent<\/li>\n<li> Honda rose 13 percent to 80,671 vehicles.<\/li>\n<li> GM\u2018s had a 12 percent sales gain<\/li>\n<li> Nissan sales climbed 29 percent to 70,189,<\/li>\n<li> Hyundai reported February sales rose 11 percent<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Toyota reported a 10 percent drop<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>**Combined sales for Asia-based auto brands rose 7.3 percent to 349,489 last month. That was fewer than the 368,685 vehicles GM, Ford and Chrysler combined to sell in February.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/autosales.jpe\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5548 aligncenter\" title=\"autosales\" src=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/autosales.jpe\" alt=\"autosales\" width=\"605\" height=\"473\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Year over Year, auto sales are looking good. Most of this is due to the comparison off of a low base. I other words, we are looking at the data from some of the worst times of 2009 and comparing it to those of today. While this is a good start, the rate is still [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12,42],"tags":[483,490],"class_list":["post-8374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-markets","category-stocks","tag-markets","tag-stocks","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}