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Cain’s Segments:Truck, Truck, Hooray!
U.S. sales of pickup trucks rose 19% in May 2013 despite the disappearance of 6175 Ford Rangers, Dodge Dakotas, Suzuki Equators, Chevrolet Colorados, and GMC Canyons. So strong were sales of the...
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Cain’s Segments: Trucks Roll Over Subcompacts
The eleven vehicles most obviously classified as subcompacts accounted for 3.8% of the American automobile industry’s May 2013 sales volume, down from 3.9% a year ago. Overall volume increased, but...
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Cain’s Segments: Muscle Cars Weak, Challenger Dodges The Trend
That sound you’ve been hearing for nearly two decades is the weeping and gnashing of teeth roused by the Chevrolet Beretta’s demise. Oh, Ford Probe, we hardly knew ye. Whither the Dodge Daytona? Let’s...
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Cain’s Segments: Return Of The Big, Bad, BOF SUVs
June hosted a dramatic decline in the U.S. sales of traditional full-size sport-utility vehicles but also marked the end of a successful first half in which sales of these seven SUVs rose 7.9%....
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Cain’s Segments: Where Did All The German Roadsters Go?
In the first six months of 2013, the volume achieved by America’s auto industry was 5% smaller than it was in the first six months of 2003. This is an important statistic, one which goes a long way in...
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Cain’s Segments: Compacts Lifted By Cruze And Dart
Compact cars, many of which are now as roomy as older midsize cars, collectively sold at a significantly better rate in the first half of 2013 than in the first half of 2012. It may have proven to...
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Cain’s Segments: Affordable Off-Roaders
The general belief that no genuine Jeep Wrangler alternative sells in anything like the kinds of numbers achieved by the Wrangler is a belief that is completely, wholeheartedly supported by the facts....
View ArticleCain’s Segments April 2014: German Luxury SUVs
Auto April 2014 April 2013 % Change 4 mos. 2014 4 mos. 2013 % Change BMW X5 4,393 3,444 +27.6% 14,153 15,335 -7.7% BMW X3 3,544 1,914 +85.2% 13,974 9,125 +53.1% Mercedes-Benz M-Class 3,831 3,280...
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Cain’s Segments, May 2014: Trucks
Ford is in a transition phase: readying the new 2015 F-150 while trying to sell the old model as often as possible. This requires knowing just how many F-Series pickups dealers will need in the weeks...
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Cain’s Segments June 2014: Commercial Vans
The only van not capable of improving its May 2013 U.S. sales figures in May 2014 possessed an in-showroom rival last month which didn’t exist a year ago. Ram Cargo Van sales fell 21%, or 209 units,...
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Cain’s Segments, June 2014: Small And Mid-Size Pickup Trucks
Small and midsize pickup trucks accounted for 10.6% of the new pickups sold in the United States in June 2014 as their collective volume slid 9.3%. Overall pickup truck sales slid 5.1%. Sales of the...
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Cain’s Segments, Canada Recap
Booming utility vehicle sales have boosted Canada’s new vehicle market to unseen highs in the first half of 2014. Despite falling car sales and a slight decline in overall pickup truck volume,...
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Cain’s Segments: Trucks – July 2014
These are not normal times for America’s pickup truck market. The best-selling pickup truck line, Ford’s F-Series, is now entering a transition phase many months after potential customers first...
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Cain’s Segments July 2014: Minivans
The Toyota Sienna was America’s best-selling minivan during the month of July 2014, although Chrysler’s minivan duo combined to own a far greater portion of the market. 44.8% of all July minivan sales...
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Cain’s Segments, Small Luxury Crossovers: July 2014
For the most part, their bigger and more expensive brethren sell more often. But this group of small luxury crossovers is gaining a smaller subset as we speak, one which will see the declining BMW X1...
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Cain’s Segments: Trucks – August 2014
In an auto market which somewhat unexpectedly grew 5.5% in August 2014, sales of full-size pickup trucks jumped 8.8%. This increase occurred in spite of 3006 fewer sales from the segment’s best-selling...
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Cain’s Segments August 2014: Full-Size SUVs
GM’s market share in the full-size, truck-based SUV segment grew to 82.9% in August 2014 as the company’s four candidates grabbed the four top spots in the category. Not unpredictably, Ford Expedition...
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Cain’s Segments: Trucks – September 2014
As is the norm, Ford’s F-Series topped September 2014’s sales charts, but if a true winner was to be crowned after a quick glance at the results tables, Chevrolet’s Silverado must surely take the cake....
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Cain’s Segments: Subcompact Cars In September 2014
In a U.S. auto industry that’s seen total new vehicle sales rise 5.5% over the first nine months of 2014, car sales are up just 1% year-over-year. Subcompacts are performing slightly better, rising...
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Cain’s Segments: Full-Size Pickup Trucks – October 2014 YTD
Overall pickup truck sales jumped 10.1% in the United States in October 2014 as six full-size nameplates collectively grew 9.5%. Growth in the overall truck world was aided by 2158 Chevrolet Colorado...
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