Toyota Motor Corp. (TM) is beating the pants off domestic automakers and September shows proof with a 25 percent increase in the U.S marketplace. General Motors Corporation (GM) and DaimlerChrysler AG (DCX) watched their sales slip by a few percentage points ,3.1 and 2.3 repsectively, while Ford Motor Co. (F) showed a slight increase of 4.7 percent.
GM looked at the decrease in a positive light stating the reduction was due to low-margin sales to rental companies. DaimlerChrysler attributes their overall decrease to its U.S. subsidiary Chrysler Group. Sales of Mercedes-Benz were up 13.2 percent during the same period of time.
Ford's increase it attributed to car sales, which rose 26.2 percent while their trucks fell 5.5 percent. In direct comparison Toyota's truck sales soared 34.9 percent. Another auto maker, Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (HMC) reported a drop in sales of 4.1 percent.
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