Sales Prediction Contest

875. I'm guessing Altima sales of 25,000 in March with 3.5% of them being hybrids.

Winner gets Collin's Altima!

876....i'm that annoying person on price is right that bids 1 dollar higher

haha, no, my guess is 500...because of low availability of the hybrids most people want (non base model ones)

sorry collin... langjie was close!

Nissan saw its sales of the Altima Hybrid, offered in only eight states, increase to 462 units in the car’s second month on the market.

http://www.greencarcongress.com/2007/04/reported_us_sal.html#more

It's still almost double February, so maybe March will be up to the 700-800 range?

I just watched Who Killed the Electric Car, so this sounds kinda eerie. The only reason Nissan poo-poohs the Altima Hybrid is becuase they aren't making money on them and may never do so. I bet this summer/fall when the Altima coupe is selling they won't be talking trash about it and will probably sell more of them than the hybrid. Oh well.

"i placed an order for a dark slate hybrid w/ tech package today. i live in mass, i got a $1500 discount for a car I'm ordering. ... my car will be here in a month, woohoo" -- 02-20-2007, 07:16 AM

so i guess they are a little slow in rolling out the cars, but at least it was less than 8 weeks. i ordered mine on march 5th so if i'm lucky mine will come around april 16th? sweet.

ok let me pick a number to stay on topic. i gave a range, but i'll pick the low end at 725 for april. come on nissan don't disappoint.

Nissan sold 483 units of the Altima hybrid, for 3.0% of total Altima sales. Sales of the hybrid are limited to 8 states.

http://www.greencarcongress.com/2007/05/reported_us_sal.html#more

i guess april was just between me and juxtapos99 and I claim victory for the second straight month

if anyone still comes on to this thread, my guess for may will be 500

wow, we were all well off (37.5%). Nissan sold 821 AH's. Hopefully this will keep increasing and Nissan will finally sell it to more states

http://www.greencarcongress.com/2007/06/us_sales_of_hyb.html#more

my guess is 999 for june

i was consider the TCH too, but then i just thought the altima look sooooo much sexier on the outside. and then i went inside a TCH and i was thinking to myself (and they say Nissan interiors are cheap?!?!??!) i didn't like the interior at all of the camry. doesn't matter if you get a base or leather, the interior is pretty much the same. i thought that the interior of the altima was much nicer then what magazines give it credit for. i have leather, btw, and i think it's close to lexus ES quality (not quite)

i would blame that on independence day (i'm not complaining though)

yeah, sales dropped by a bit.

anyone interested in predicting next month? 800 for me

Don't go trying to confuse us with the facts! Sheesh... ;) :p

-Gren

I believe you're correct.

I would imagine that more Hybrids are sold in California than anywhere else although I would think Nissan is missing out on some big states like FL and TX where Toyota probably does pretty well with hybrids. I'd be interested to know what percentage of NAH and TCH are sold in just CA.

The eight states Nissan sells the hybrid in are based on those states adopting the CA emission standard - not sure if that would mean that more people would buy hybrids for that reason in those states.

Edit - i meant to add the thought that I don't think those eight states were picked by the marketing people at Nissan but rather it was done to meet the requirements for the CA emission standard for those states. I'm sure the marketing people would have picked a different eight states if they wanted to maximize sales - CA would definetly be on the list either way.

The article in USA Today this weekend said that the eight states Nissan sells the NAH in makes up 25% of the US population. If you were use that number then total US sales so far would be about 11,100 if they sold them in all 50 states.

One figure I never see is how many NAH's have been sold in Canada - I believe they sell them there as well.

Nissan Hybrid Car Sales

Nissan sold 1,131 hybrid Altimas in the month of July. That's 4.0% of the full hybrid market and the first time Nissan broke through the 1,000 mark with their limited sales of the Nissan Altima Hybrid. Nissan sells its only hybrid in just the eight states with California emissions laws.

http://hybridreview.blogspot.com/2007/08/hybrid-car-sales-july-2007.html

756 in september

1191 for November