{"id":502021,"date":"2010-04-01T15:12:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T19:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/suzuki-march-sales-2010-4"},"modified":"2010-04-01T15:12:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-01T19:12:00","slug":"this-is-by-far-the-worst-performing-car-company-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/502021","title":{"rendered":"This Is By Far The Worst Performing Car Company In America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"float_right\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/image\/4bb4eb6c7f8b9a093a0d0200\/suzuki-via-wikipedia.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Suzuki via Wikipedia\" \/><\/p>\n<p>With all the automakers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/march-auto-sales-in-america-2010-4\">reporting March sales<\/a> today, we&#8217;ve been paying close attention to the numbers. <\/p>\n<p>Chrysler, as expected, clocked in lower with sales down 8% to 92,600 units. Every other company was up, including Toyota, so we figured Chrysler would be March&#8217;s underdog. <\/p>\n<p>Then came Suzuki. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/portal\/site\/home\/permalink\/?ndmViewId=news_view&amp;newsId=20100401006357&amp;newsLang=en\">Sales are down 72% in March<\/a>, year over year, to 2200 units. The company sold only one Forenza vehicle last month.<\/p>\n<p>2200 units is a paltry amount. Divide that amount by the lower 48 states and you have a whopping 45 cars PER STATE sold. Yikes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/suzuki-march-sales-2010-4#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>See Also:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/now-gm-recalls-13-million-vehicles-due-to-power-steering-problem-in-ancient-cars-when-driving-slowly-2010-3\">GM Recalls 1.3 Million Vehicles Due To Power Steering Problem In Ancient Cars Driving Slowly<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/the-definitive-round-up-of-februarys-auto-sales-2010-3\">The Complete Round Up Of February Auto Sales<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/senator-calls-for-ban-on-japanese-car-imports-2010-3\">Senator Calls For Ban On Japanese Car Imports<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/fgWmpY7gVKQ\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With all the automakers reporting March sales today, we&#8217;ve been paying close attention to the numbers. Chrysler, as expected, clocked in lower with sales down 8% to 92,600 units. Every other company was up, including Toyota, so we figured Chrysler would be March&#8217;s underdog. Then came Suzuki. Sales are down 72% in March, year over [&hellip;]<\/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-502021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502021","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=502021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}