Fleet Sales Data for 2005
01-14-06, 08:15 AM
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Originally Posted by flipside909
You'll be shocked how many new Sonatas are in Hertz and Enterprise's fleets here in CA. Even the other smaller rental agencies are carrying them heavily.
01-14-06, 08:23 AM
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Originally Posted by spwolf
there is nothing wrong with that BTW, as long as Hyundai is making money on them. It will lower the resale though Jrock, which is something to think about - you spend more on Toyota now, but you sell it easier and for more later on...
But it's not a bad idea for a company like Hyundai to sell their cars to fleets more. Hyundai still has a bad reputation among the general public and most won't even give a Hyundai dealership the time of day. Through rentals, Hyundai can get people into good products like the Sonata and have them thinking, "Hey, these cars ain't that bad at all."
You said that Sonata sales doubled within the last 2 months and that most of the increase was from fleet sales. That suggests that fleet sales were like 30% to 40% in the last 2 months. I was just curious where I can get that kind of recent fleet data.
01-14-06, 08:48 AM
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It will definitely lower resale... which does level out total ownership costs if you're selling within 6 years or so.
But it's not a bad idea for a company like Hyundai to sell their cars to fleets more. Hyundai still has a bad reputation among the general public and most won't even give a Hyundai dealership the time of day. Through rentals, Hyundai can get people into good products like the Sonata and have them thinking, "Hey, these cars ain't that bad at all."
You said that Sonata sales doubled within the last 2 months and that most of the increase was from fleet sales. That suggests that fleet sales were like 30% to 40% in the last 2 months. I was just curious where I can get that kind of recent fleet data.
But it's not a bad idea for a company like Hyundai to sell their cars to fleets more. Hyundai still has a bad reputation among the general public and most won't even give a Hyundai dealership the time of day. Through rentals, Hyundai can get people into good products like the Sonata and have them thinking, "Hey, these cars ain't that bad at all."
You said that Sonata sales doubled within the last 2 months and that most of the increase was from fleet sales. That suggests that fleet sales were like 30% to 40% in the last 2 months. I was just curious where I can get that kind of recent fleet data.
01-14-06, 09:25 AM
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Originally Posted by UDel
The Camry has another model to add to those numbers that the Accord does not have. I believe the Camry Solara "convertable" is also counted as Camry sales which the Accord does not have a convertable model to compete with so that might be what it putting total Camry sales over Accord sales even for retail purchase.
01-14-06, 05:32 PM
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Originally Posted by flipside909
You'll be shocked how many new Sonatas are in Hertz and Enterprise's fleets here in CA. Even the other smaller rental agencies are carrying them heavily.
I guess they are getting tired of buying junk.
01-14-06, 06:21 PM
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Originally Posted by UDel
The Camry has another model to add to those numbers that the Accord does not have. I believe the Camry Solara "convertable" is also counted as Camry sales which the Accord does not have a convertable model to compete with so that might be what it putting total Camry sales over Accord sales even for retail purchase.
And as mentioned, this data is not for 2005, but for Oct 2004 - March 2005. We don't have data yet for all of 2005.
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