by Calculated Threat on 2/03/2025 05:00:00 PM
Wards Auto launched their estimate of sunshine automobile gross sales for January: U.S. Mild-Car Gross sales Begin 2025 With 4% Improve in January (pay web site).
There didn’t look like an end-of-month increase in demand, both as a rebound from the mid-month weather-related losses or pull-ahead quantity in case of still-possible future tariff-related worth will increase. Nonetheless, January’s acquire marked the fourth straight year-over-year enhance in quantity and fifth consecutive for the seasonally adjusted annual charge.
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This graph reveals mild automobile gross sales since 2006 from the BEA (blue) and Wards’ estimate for January (purple).
Gross sales in January had been on the consensus forecast.
This was the perfect January since 2021.