Originally Posted By: itguy08
This is not a bash as I've already said I like Mazdas....
This does say what America thinks about Mazda:
http://www.autoblog.com/2013/10/01/september-2013-auto-sales-results/
Mazda -6.92% vs 2012
No, it doesn't, because you aren't including all the information on the website.
Let me point out what you didn't choose to include:
Originally Posted By: autoblog
There were 23 selling days in September 2013 and 25 selling days in September 2012, so there is a difference between the change in monthly sales volume and the change in average daily sales rate (DSR) for each brand/company.
So, what does that mean?
That means that if Sept 2013 has 25 sales days as Sept 2012 did, the numbers might look more like this:
Sept 2013 sales - 22,464
Divide 22,464 by the number of sales days in 2013 - 977 units per day
Multiply 977 by the number of sales days in Sept 2012 (25) - 24,425
Now subtract the Sept 2012 sales (24,135) from the estimated Sept 2013 numbers (24,425) had the number of sales days been the same, and
you get 290 positive units.
So, the loss might have actually been a gain had there been a similar amount of days customers could have bought Mazdas in the month of September this year, as they did last year.
And that's with a model changeover (Mazda 3) occurring.
That's pretty good, if you actually think about it.
It's even better if you think about the fact that all of the vehicles Mazda sells here in the US market have to travel on the slow boats from Japan to one of the various seaports across the US, and then get distributed to the individual dealers via rail/truck.
It really doesn't look like you thought about it, however, you just grabbed pretty numbers that you thought proved your point, and slapped them out there for all to see.
BC.