Comments on: April 2008 Dashboard: Hybrids Sales Defy Recession

By: tapra1

tapra1 — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 11:19:01 +0000

The Prius and the Toyota Camry Hybrid are the only hybrids showing strong year-over-year growth. In April, the other hybrid producers were caught flat-footed againGreen News

By: iabhornc

iabhornc — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 23:23:41 +0000

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By: joe

joe — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 17:31:57 +0000

Its great to see the increase of hybrids, its sad to see Ford and GM sales down.

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By: mdensch

mdensch — Thu, 15 May 2008 19:19:29 +0000

The reason for the lower figures for the Ford Escape Hybrid in April is because Ford was changing over to the 2009 model. There are numerous changes being made to both the regular Escape and the Hybrid for the new model year including introducing a slightly larger ICE for the hybrid and tweeks to the programming which is expected to result in slightly higher MPG figures.

Furthermore, Russell, your experience at the Ford dealer is neither typical nor indicative of Ford's committment to the hybrid. If you are serious about buying an Escape hybrid, go see another dealer or ask to speak to sales rep more familiar with the vehicle.

By: KS

KS — Wed, 14 May 2008 15:32:38 +0000

Not sure why my post was deleted. But anyway, as tw8s pointed out, you need to clean the errors on the pie chart, and don’t forget do the same work on the pdf download.

By: Jerry

Jerry — Wed, 14 May 2008 11:53:53 +0000

No suprise on the best seller’s. I am curious what the production numbers are for the Ford Escape I would have thought more of them would have sold. I can’t find the amount manufactured. Does anyone have that data?

By: tw8s

tw8s — Wed, 14 May 2008 07:36:00 +0000

The Dashboard words/numbers/%s disagree:
"Sales of the Honda Civic Hybrid declined compared to last month, and to last April."
"Civic 4,324 14.7% 51.5% 11,646 24.2% "
and:
"Hybrids sold in the U.S. (April 2008): 38,611"
"All hybrids 40,060 "
In the "U.S. hybrid sales for April ..." chart, the percentages are correct for the smaller of the two totals after adjusting the number of Civics sold downward by the difference (1449) of the two stated total units.
The numbers stated in the KS post seem to have been applied to the Honda lines of the table without re-calculating the pie chart percentages and correcting the words about the Honda Civic.

By: Jman

Jman — Wed, 14 May 2008 04:47:07 +0000

That’s cause he was just practicing SWAT. Sell Whats Available Today! I’m sure if they had 10 brand new escape hybrids on the lot, thats the one he would have been showing you.

By: Russell

Russell — Wed, 14 May 2008 01:02:33 +0000

I wonder why the Escape is down – could it be because Ford doesn’t want it to succeed? I went to Titus Will Ford in Tacoma, WA and asked about the Escape Hybrid. The dealer told me that they had only a used one and that I would be ‘stupid’ to buy one anyway since they’re far too expensive. He wouldn’t even talk about the hybrid except to point out that it didn’t make sense to buy it. He even refused to show me the used one they had on the lot. I left VERY disappointed in Ford.