Nissan sales off 33.1% in May

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The nose dive continues...

Wayne Gerdes - CleanMPG - June 2, 2009

2009 Nissan Versa FE - $9,995 to start and 30 mpgUS combined. Sales were trashed.

Nissan reported sales for March of 67,489 units versus 100,874 units a year ago, a decrease of 33.1 percent. Sales of Nissan Division vehicles decreased 32.5 percent, while sales of Infiniti vehicles decreased by 38.1 percent.

Combined sales for Nissan and Infiniti of 67,489 units, compared with last May’s sales of 100,874 units, marked a decrease of 33.1 percent.

To ensure consistency in our global sales reporting, Nissan North America calculates monthly variances on a straight-percentage basis, unadjusted for the number of selling days in the month. This May had 26 selling days, and May 2008 had 27 selling days.

Highlights

The all-new, uniquely styled 2009 cube® saw sales of 1,745 units in just 3-weeks of availability.

Sales of the flagship Maxima sedan posted an 86.0 percent increase over year-ago, with sales of 6,082 units in May. No explanation was given as to how?

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My mother purchased a 1.8L SL Sedan last month. Got a great deal on it. It was like $4k off msrp. Then they gave her $2k trade for her worn out Sentra.

And she seems to like the car.