'Ke cry, people smile' on the U.S. car market in 2011

2011 is regarded as a turbulent year of the U.S. car market, where the Big Three U.S. carmakers and the joy with sales soaring by contrast the Japanese car company with sales pity serious decline .

Start with the Big Three American groups. In 2011, General Motors (GM) grew 13.7% to 2,503,820 vehicles, including Chevrolet brand leader with 1,775,812 units (up 13.4%), followed by the GMC with 397,986 units (up 18.8%), Buick reached 177,633 units (up 14.3%) and Cadillac with 152,389 units (up 3.7%).

GM's sales in 2011

Ford Group also experienced a successful year when sales of 2,148,806 vehicles, up 11% compared to 2011. The largest contribution is the Ford brand with 2,062,915 units (up 17.4%), Lincoln reached 85,643 units (down 0.1%) and 248 Mercury brand vehicles of death was.

Remaining members of the Big Three is the Chrysler Group (including Fiat) reported sales of 1.37 million vehicles in 2011, up 26% from a year earlier. Specifically, Chrysler brand sales were 221,346 units (up 12%), Dodge reached 451,040 units (up 18%), Jeep sold 419,349 units (up 44%), Ram reached 257,610 units (up 21%), plus 19,769 Fiat branded cars in the first year of presence on U.S. soil.

For U.S. automakers, 2011 is the year they have reaped much success. Hyundai sold 645,691 vehicles, up 20% compared to 2010. Meanwhile, Kia also achieved impressive business results with sales of 485,492 vehicles, up 36.3% from a year earlier.

In contrast to the success of the Big Three and Hyundai-Kia, the Japanese carmakers acknowledge the decline in sales. Toyota pioneered a 7% decrease over the same period in 2010, reaching 1,644,661 vehicles. Specifically, Toyota sold 1,396,837 vehicles (down 6%), Lexus down 13.4% to 198,552 vehicles, while Scion reached 49,271 vehicles, up 7.9%.

Sales of Ford in 2011 reached 1,147,285 vehicles, down 7.1% in 2010. Honda brand sold 1,023,986 vehicles, down 6.9%, Acura sales fell 8% to 123,299 vehicles.

In 2011, the brand Nissan's sales record with 944,073 vehicles, up 17.3% over 2010. However, sales of the Infiniti brand fell 4.8% to 98,461 vehicles.

Some other Japanese carmakers such as Subaru sold 266,989 vehicles (up 1.2%), Mazda sold 250,426 vehicles (9.1%) and Mitsubishi reached 78,020 units (up 41.4%).

According to Infonet