Automobile sales during this June in Minneapolis fell 22% compared with the same month a year earlier. It is the fourth consecutive double-digit percentage decline in year-over-year sales. Through the whole 2016 year, this trend of falling down sales might continue, and it might go even further. By going further we mean this decline will evolve through the next few years.
The Houston area in June logged another sharp, year-over-year drop in auto sales despite a surge of flood victims replacing vehicles. It was announced that last month's sales figures were 21% higher than the results from May. If we take as comparison the sales from May and June than we have to say that they even got better, because in June we've got a 21% higher results than in the previous month of the same year. We get to think that June sales have recovered. Of course some of them lost to slow showroom traffic during the flooding in April and May, but we still have positive predictions.
In the nine-country metro area 26.761 vehicles were sold in June, a 21.4 increase over May. Houston-area dealers had sold 153,763 vehicles through the first six months of 2016. At the and of July we will get to find out whether the sales are really getting better or whether they slow down.
