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Despite what many might think, Toyota is not off to the most crippling start in 2010; Chrysler is. Although their overall sales are only down 3%, over half of their total sales are to fleet customers. The fact that Chrysler Group LLC’s consumer sale shave dropped a staggering 44% shows that many consumers may have turned their back on the once prosperous American manufacturer.<\/p>\n
To put the above figures into perspective and illustrate just how much of a slump this actually is; Toyota’s sales are down just under 14% – after accounting for the week-long cease in sales of eight of their biggest-selling models and the storm of bad-press surrounding the company.<\/p>\n
<\/span><\/p>\n Industry insiders warn about the dangers of having too large a dependency on fleet sales. Many of these sales are to rental companies and the like, and are based on deeply discounted prices. This practice also insures that the used-car market will be flooded with the company’s cars; all with low mileage and a low price-tag, basically destroying a prospective consumers expected resale value.<\/p>\n Officials say that the issue is being addressed and by year’s-end should account for only about 25% of total sales.<\/p>\n – By: Stephen Calogera<\/em><\/p>\n Source: CNNMoney<\/a><\/p>\n Despite what many might think, Toyota is not off to the most crippling start in 2010; Chrysler is. Although their overall sales are only down 3%, over half of their total sales are to fleet customers. The fact that Chrysler Group LLC’s consumer sale shave dropped a staggering 44% shows that many consumers may have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-416675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/img><\/a>
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