Looking forward, year-over-year comparisons for the next three months “will be impacted by Hurricane Harvey last year, which as you remember hurt August sales but really helped September with replacement demand and even helped October,” Mark LaNeve says.
Jeep deliveries soared 20% in July for a seventh consecutive monthly year-over-year gain, paced by record sales of the Cherokee (+78.1%), Compass (+70.2%) and Wrangler (+18.7%).
Truck sales were strong for Toyota and Honda, but not so for Nissan, which recorded a decline from year-ago despite a solid performance from its Titan fullsize pickup.
