美国最畅销的汽车证明There Isn't Another Crash Looming

It now appears that 2016's record auto sales will go down as the high water mark for this current flow as the demand for cars, trucks, and SUVs ebbs out. Production facilities will cut shifts, dealers will be left saddled with inventory, and automakers will be doling out incentives on vehicles, especially those of the non-SUV variety because in total, auto sales in April 2017 fell 4.7% over the same period last year according to theDetroit Free Press.

This marks the a continuation of a downward trend that began in January and that has forced the auto industry to recalibrate its targets and pivot strategies to cut costs and endure the downturn. "Over the past six months we've watched nearly every automaker go from positive to negative sales volume, confirming the plateau in this latest sales cycle," said Karl Brauer, executive publisher for Autotrader and Kelley Blue Book. As bad as it may seem, many automakers don't see this as a crash but rather a plateau. "We have to let the year play out," he said. "I am not discouraged by the numbers. I view it as within some kind of normal range in a plateauing industry," said Mark LaNeve, vice president of Ford sales and marketing.