Report: GM Automobile Gross sales Practically Double

Individuals purchase extra SUVs than vehicles and vans mixed. However 2022, with its hovering fuel costs, hovering automotive costs, and hovering borrowing prices, has Individuals rethinking their automotive wants.

Common Motors, America’s largest automaker, bought virtually twice as many vehicles within the first quarter of 2022 because it did within the first quarter of final yr. Not autos. Automobiles. Old style sedans and coupes are again in type.

Sedans Have Had a Tough Yr

The basic household sedan has appeared to be on life assist in recent times. Ford has deserted the sedan market fully within the U.S. Chrysler has introduced the top of the road for its 300 sedan, and company sibling Dodge has introduced the top of its Charger and Challenger. The Volkswagen Passat is on the best way out, as is its Arteon sedan (although it might get an electrical alternative), and the Nissan Maxima will retire after the 2023 mannequin yr.

In that local weather, the Chevy Malibu appears an unlikely candidate for an enormous gross sales surge — however that’s precisely what has occurred. GM Authority reviews that Malibu gross sales elevated a jaw-dropping 563% year-over-year within the second quarter.

Not Simply the Malibu

It wasn’t the one GM automotive to see a gross sales bounce. Chevy bought 63% extra Camaros and eight% extra Corvettes than a yr in the past, regardless of important provide chain challenges slowing Corvette manufacturing. Each of Cadillac’s sedans, the CT4 and CT5, additionally noticed gross sales bounce.

Solely two vehicles noticed their gross sales lower. Bolt electrical car (EV) gross sales dropped 76%. GM paused Bolt gross sales final yr after a sequence of remembers as a result of battery fires, and although the corporate says the issue has been mounted, automotive patrons have been sluggish to embrace the mannequin. The tiny Chevy Spark additionally noticed its gross sales decline dramatically after GM introduced that it could discontinue the price range mannequin. Individuals purchased simply 47 sparks between April and June.