March, April and May are the months with the highest selling-volume, this year it seems like dealerships have a good benefit from an early Easter.“It’s reassuring when retail sales grow faster than the overall industry pace as it indicates consumers remain very active and engaged in the new-vehicle market.” says Eric Lyman, TrueCar’s vice president of industry insights, in a statement.
TrueCar is expecting increases of 4% for retail sales and 1% for fleet ones. LMC projects retail to rise above 3,9% and 4,7% for fleet sales. April has five weekends this year, which adds to selling time two more days. Forecasts resume that this would be the fourth April since 1989 in which sales topped 1,5 million vehicles. The total LMC sales for this month is above 1.523.000 vehicles, which tops the record for 1.504.520 cars in 2005.
Jeff Schuster, LMC’s senior vice president says “We fully expect 2016 auto sales to be another record year in the United States, but there is also no question that we will see a slower rate of growth than in the past few years of recovery. Some retail light-vehicle softening in the past couple of months is partially due to comparisons with robust sales last spring. That said, with volatility comes a shift in expectations to more downside risk than upside potential for this year and next.”
American Honda and North America Nissan are the ones that achieve the biggest sales gains. Other companies like Ford Motor Co., Fiat Chrysler Automobiles and Toyota Motor Sales U.S.A. might have increases also.
