Car News - Car Sales In The U.S. Predicted To Reach 13.8 Million Units In 2012

By : Egi Isnaeni

Car News. In 2012, motor vehicle manufacturers in the United States has predicted that car sales figures for as many as 13.8 million units. This figure has approached the car sales figures for a healthy market in the U.S. as many as 14 million units per year.

Car Sales In The U.S.

In 2009, recorded as the worst year for car sales with sales of 10.4 million units. And then in 2010, sales increased to 11.5 million units. In 2011, U.S. auto sales figures rising again to reach 12.7 million units. Just to compare, car sales in Indonesia is approximately 800000-900000 units per year.

The largest figures of car sales in the U.S. occurred in 2005, in which car sales while was reaches 17 million units. At that time, the car manufacturers in Detroit to give a massive discount. Predicts that figure will be reached again in the year 2018 when the U.S. youth who were born between 1981 through 2000 have been married so it would need a new car.

In 2011 came a new trend, which is the purchase of a car with a smaller size as the impact of gasoline prices reached 3.53 U.S. dollars per liter. Middle-class sedan was chosen as the most popular car for the first time in 20 years.

However, pickup sales are very popular in the United States has also increased due to the businessman began to replace their trucks which are old. Expected, pickup truck sales also rose by 11 percent.

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