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Feb 6, 2012 | 04:19 PM

#31

spwolf

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Originally Posted by bitkahuna

Agreed mike, mplexus - excellent post and analysis.

I do feel very bad for how the horrible tsunami affected japan, although as has been said japan was in a product slump anyway. But hopefully lexus is on the way back and infiniti and acura bring it too.

japan was never in production slump, but in demand and sales slump... whats tsunami and then thai floods did was make it a lot worse, especially for Honda :-).

Feb 6, 2012 | 04:20 PM

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spwolf

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Originally Posted by Incredible

^Are you using Cars.com to come up with these numbers?

If you are, this is what I'm seeing:

BMW: 31,956
Cadillac: 30,215
Mercedes: 24,618
Infiniti: 20,422
Acura: 17,667
Lexus: 16,185
Audi: 12,557

^Just the 7 makes that MP mentioned.

yep... I am sure Cars.com is not most reliable gauge of anything, but at the same time I am also sure it can be used to compare them to each other.

Feb 6, 2012 | 08:16 PM

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bitkahuna

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Quote:

Originally Posted by spwolf

japan was never in production slump, but in demand and sales slump... whats tsunami and then thai floods did was make it a lot worse, especially for Honda :-).

Yes i said product not production

And because product was off, so were demand and sales like you say

Feb 12, 2012 | 05:44 AM

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Canadian Luxury & Near-luxury/Premium Brand Sales - January, 2012

Data for luxury and near-luxury/premium brand auto sales in Canada for January 2012, extracted from this article.

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Rank  Automaker       Jan 2012   % Change
                  
#1    Mercedes-Benz     1970      32.90%
#2    BMW               1644      35.30%
#3    Audi              1501      31.70%
#4    Lexus              810      11.30%
#5    Buick              760       3.50%
#6    Acura              717      24.90%
#7    Cadillac           385     -21.40%
#8    Infiniti           365      10.60%
#9    Lincoln            352      16.60%
#10   Volvo              340     -14.40%
#11   Land Rover         310      79.20%
#12   Mini               201      27.20%
#13   smart               87       6.10%
#14   Porsche             48      20.00%
#15   Jaguar              33       3.10%
#16   Maserati             7      16.70%
#17   Saab                 5     -54.50%
#18   Bentley              4      33.30%

Source: Desrosiers & Automotive News Data Center, and GoodCarBadCar.net