CANADA AUTO SALES FOR OCTOBER 2008

One day in advance of Barack Obama's election as President of the United States the election in the USA, some sorry Numbers were revealed regarding auto sales south of the border. To what degree will the president-elect be consulted on the bailout of U.S. automakers? Can't be too sure. However, whatever happens will have an effect on the Canadian market as well. Reasons being: Canada, Ontario more specifically, builds a lot of cars. Secondly, many automobile manufacturers base their importing decisions on what they're accomplishing in the United States. While we're not assuming that anybody's about to pull out of the American market, funny things happen. 

As for the disastrous type of month had by just about everybody (except Mini and Audi) in the States, their Canadian divisions were largely spared. 

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General Motors: -5.9% to 28,115

Chrysler LLC: +1.5% to 15,643

Ford Motor: -10.3% to 15,123

Toyota: +8.8% to 14,539

Honda: +1.7% to 10,293

Mazda: +1.1% to 6,109

Nissan: +3.6% to 6,063

Hyundai: +1.4% to 5,885

Volkswagen: +37.7% to 3,662

Kia: +0.2% to 2,925

BMW: +22.8% to 2,190

Subaru: +23.4% to 1,784

Mercedes-Benz: +15.4% to 1,720

Mitsubishi: -3.1% to 1,338

Suzuki: +21.6% to 1,316

Lexus: +15.8% to 1,304

Acura: -7.3% to 1,162

Audi: +67.7% to 1,075

Infiniti: +60.4% to 770

Mini: +52.7% to 481

Volvo: +4.6% to 453

smart: +1,488.2% to 270

Land Rover: +9.0 % to 217

Porsche: -26.9% to 114

Saab: -38.6% to 105

Jaguar: +37.5% to 55