HUGE drop in Fit numbers, a whopping -46.4%! Sounds like it's still an advantageous time to buy...

07/01/2009 - TORRANCE, Calif. - American Honda Motor Co., Inc., posted June vehicle sales of 100,420, a decline of 32.4 percent compared to June 2008 results*. American Honda year-to-date sales of 530,778 represent a 33.1 percent decrease.
Sales of Honda's Odyssey and Pilot light truck models showed gains of 11.8 percent and 7.7 percent respectively. Honda total car sales decreased 43.8 percent to 52,662 and Honda light truck sales decreased 5.6 percent to 39,478. Honda Division posted June sales of 92,140, a decline of 32.0 percent versus June 2008.

"We're seeing signs of strength in our light truck segments with solid gains for Honda's Odyssey and Pilot models this month," said John Mendel, executive vice president of sales for American Honda. "American families clearly still have a need for the value and versatility that Honda vehicles have to offer."

The Acura Division posted June 2009 sales of 8,280, a decrease of 36.2 percent compared to June 2008.



*The daily selling rate is calculated with 25 days for June 2009 and 24 days for June 2008. The year-to-date daily selling rate is calculated with 152 days for 2009 and 153 days for 2008. All percentages represent the daily selling rate.
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That's funny, this time last year I couldn't find a FIT to buy. I had been doing the research, just when I decided on the FIT gas hit $4 and Consumer Reports named the Fit one of its best buys and I couldn't find one within 300 miles. I put an order in for the 2009 with a dealer over 200 miles away, and never looked back. I was so glad when Honda moved up the release date. What a difference a year makes.

 

Well I did my best to help honda in June, and I love my fit.

 

The economy is a bit messed up. And I'm thinking that maybe people put off buying because of the Clunker/CARS program and other local incentives. https://www.fitfreak.net/forums/general-fit-talk/44573-clunker-fit.html

If waiting a month or so to get thousands more, it's worth it! My old car wouldn't have qualified for the CARS program. But if it had and I knew about the CARS program, you bet I would have waited longer. That Texas program (if I lived in Texas) would have been great.

 

Comparing June 2009 sales figures for the Fit to June 2008 is probably not a very fair thing to do. First, gas prices were nearly $4/gallon in 2008, and that was driving sales of the little car through the roof; I bought mine in May and had to wait for it to be shipped out from the distribution center. Second, the economy had not yet tanked.

Evidence of the former: the recovery in sales for larger vehicles such as the Odyssey.

Evidence of the latter: the fell-off-a-cliff drop in sales of the S2000 and Acura RL.

 

I think financing also helps coz my friend want to buy a Honda pilot but got denied bec no one is financing him..

 

The real reason sales are down is those of who can afford to buy a new car are scared to death of the White House and Congress.
There's no hiring either.
Their takeover of GM at gunpoint, their huge stimulus packages and their costs to taxpayers, the expected huge increase in government health plans, and the taxation based on the energy cap n trafe bill habve put buyers on the wait list unless its just absolutely necessary.
The only thing that will bring us back - slowly but surely - is repealing NAFTA and CAFTA.
Right now most American companies have no intention of making stufff here as long as its cheaper offshore. You can make a decent profit off fewer sales if the 'cost' of production is low enough.
Politicians make poor managers and boy is it showing 'us politicians are too valuable to take a pay cut and if those little people don't have bread, let them eat cake'.
(borrowed from Marie A.)
hang on, Sloopy, we may not come this way again.