February Auto Sales: Ford Tops the List

The table below shows February U.S. vehicle sales (data here), ranked by the percentage change from February of last year. Overall sales in February were up 13.3% compared to last year (91,320 more vehicles were sold last month compared to February 2009), and Ford Motor (F) led the industry with a 43.4% increase, and capturing almost half (43,000 vehicles) of the 91,320 unit increase from last February.

See news reports here and here.

About Mark J. Perry 262 Articles

Affiliation: University of Michigan

Dr. Mark J. Perry is a professor of economics and finance in the School of Management at the Flint campus of the University of Michigan.

He holds two graduate degrees in economics (M.A. and Ph.D.) from George Mason University in Washington, D.C. and an MBA degree in finance from the Curtis L. Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota.

Since 1997, Professor Perry has been a member of the Board of Scholars for the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, a nonpartisan research and public policy institute in Michigan.

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