Is the coldest winter for auto industry totally gone? Probably not, but it is for sure that car sales is improving.
Toyota reports sales for November 2009 with 9.8% increase with total of 115,200 toyota cars sold, including both passenger cars and light trucks/SUVs. There were 114,084 units sold in November 2008.
The Toyota Camry is, was and has been the best selling car for Toyota with 27,385 sold, which is 18% increase compared with the same period last year.
The Toyota Corolla, the fuel-efficient compact sedan from Toyota, is behind the mid-size Toyota Camry as the second best selling Toyota vehicle last month with 21,899 units sold. Same as the increase in sales for the Toyota Camry, sales for the Toyota Corolla is 9.2% more than November 2008.
The Toyota RAv4,the compact SUV is the best selling SUVs among all Toyota SUVs, Crossovers and vans under Toyota light truck division, is behind the Toyota Corolla as the third best selling Toyota vehicle with 11,512 units sold, results in 35.1% sales increase compared with November 2008.
The forth spot is left for the Toyota Compact car, but not the Toyota Yaris, interestingly. The compact Hybrid vehicle from Toyota, the Toyota Prius, takes the forth spot with 9,617 units sold, a surprising 20.7% increase compared with the same period in year 2008.
The sales for the Toyota Highlander, the mid-size crossover SUV from Toyota, is down 14.4%, compared with last year, with 6,213 units sold.
However, the Toyota Sienna is having a positive month of 32.3% increase and 7,488 units sold.
Tags: Car Pricing News, Toyota Sales Report
Toyota reports November 2008 Sales. As their major competitor American Honda drops 30.6% in November 2008, Toyota also got hit by the low economy by a decrease of 31.1% last month with total of 114,084 units sold by both Toyota Division passenger cars and Toyota Division light trucks, compared with November 2007.
Despite the decline of sales, Toyota is doing relatively well on their passenger cars probably due to the 0% APR offer by Totota. The best-selling Toyota car, the Toyota Camry, “only” went down 28.8% with 25,224 units sold, while its major competitor, the Honda Accord, had a decrease of 38.1% last month. The Toyota Corolla, follows the Toyota Camry, was the second best-selling Toyota passenger car with 21,807 units sold, a 12.8% decrease from last year. On the other hand, Honda Civic was down 29.6%. From this perspective, Toyota did a very good job on the Camry-Corolla combo to fight against the Honda Accord-Civic combo.
The compact size Toyota Yaris was also down by 16.6% with 4,545 units sold, while the Toyota Avalon had a huge drop of 61.6% with 2,502 units sold.
For Toyota trucks, all SUVs, vans, and trucks went down as expected. The only exception is the Toyota Sequoia, the full size SUV from Toyota. Maybe due to the hight customer rebate, the sales of Toyota Sequoia has been going up for the past few months compared with the same period last year. 1,873 units of Toyota Sequoia were sold last month, which is a 51.9% increase with November 2007. The Toyota Highlander, despites the $5000 dealer incentive in certain region, still went down 35.9% with 7,887 cars being sold.
Scion posted sales of 5,275 units in November 2008.
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