Sales get boost from sweetened offers car

DETROIT - the U.S. auto sales recovery steam picked up last month with all major automotive companies, reporting double-digit gains.

General Motors co. led the way with a whopping 49 percent U.S. sales jump compared to February of last year, closely followed by Toyota Motor Corp. with a gain of 42 percent.

Nissan Motor Co. and Honda Motor Co. had sales by 28 percent profits by 32% and 22% while Hyundai Motor Company.

Chrysler Group LLC and Ford Motor Co. showed much smaller increases, but Chrysler sales was still going strong with a 13 percent and Ford was at 10 percent.

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The company, said Tuesday that both cars and trucks, worn pointed economy, and the U.S. automakers by a gradual improvement to strong sales of new models sold to consumers. But the sales profits for GM, of sweet financing and lease activities quotes have been juiced. While analysts were unwilling, declare a price war - and GM denied from one – it noted increase the offerings were offered to customers.

The auto-industry site TrueCar.com estimated that the automaker incentives 5 percent from January to February to an average of $2,708 per vehicle caused. Chrysler, Ford, Nissan and Toyota all offers of more than 6 percent for the month, sweetened told the website.

And the industry's enthusiasm for a quick start by 2011 is somewhat by a rapid increase in fuel prices, as a result of both increased demand and a jump in oil prices amid unrest in the Middle East.

Gain was impressive while Toyota's, with one bad year on year to a string had reached its peak with embarrassing safety recalls.

Still, the gains for February were so high that Ford top sales analyst reporter the sales rate, if, adjusted to the seasonality of the business and tells of projected for a full year, can the Government be the highest, since money for clunkers juiced sales in the summer of 2009 discounts.

GM said Don Johnson, GM Vice President of U.S. sales, GM incentives strengthened early in the year to get off to a fast start and catch rivals away from the protection.

The automaker $400 per vehicle by December, began the increases in January by increasing the incentives especially with low-interest financing and leasing offers, in the Northeastern States. You stuck in February with the offers, leads to sales of more than 207,000 cars and trucks.

But Johnson predicted that GM would back on incentives this year.

Automakers have tried from incentives, trying to sell cars and trucks, based quality, improved you on how much to wean shorn not how much you the sticker price. Incentives in the average had fallen, as the industry in financial trouble ran in 2009.

Johnson said that GM targeted incentives, especially in the Northeast, in January and February. It offered to buy driver leases and for cash to loyal GM customers for repurchases by.

Still, Johnson vowed, that GM would not return to his old ways offer great incentives only for passenger cars and trucks move, factories run to keep. Only in March 2009, GM's average incentive was spending $4.750 per vehicle, the highest level in a decade, the Web site Edmunds.

Johnson said that GM is not great incentives to keep, because it no longer has to discharge a large inventory due to the overproduction in their factories, as it was entering bankruptcy protection in 2009.

The company has 60-day supply of vehicles, the optimum for a car manufacturer.

"We are very well manage our inventory." We are not out there to drive sales production match ", he said."

He said GM products sales growth was driven by a $400 increase in incentives.

"A $400-rose not these types of share profits and sales drive profits", he said.

Johnson said that GM customers look at small cars ever more frequently since gas prices have increased, but he said that consumers still have changed not your buying habits, has noticed.

Ford, however said that some customers nationwide rose to smaller cars gas well above $3 per gallon because of the turmoil in the Middle East have been moved.

"With oil just before the $100 per barrel, and gasoline prices continue to rise, consumers regard fuel economy takes place again top billing," said Ken Czubay, Ford Vice President, U.S. sales, in a statement.

GM CEO Dan Akerson at the Geneva car show shows show against optimism for the industry, due to the rising oil prices.

"I do not believe that the industry is learnt a lot of lessons from 2008."this time is you, he said the 2008 spike in US gas prices over $4 per gallon.""

Ford sales were of the redesigned Explorer sport utility vehicle, a car-based vehicle led the better gas mileage than its predecessor, truck-based polls. She more than doubled Explorer sales in February.

Chrysler said its sales were led by the RAM truck brand, was up to 81%, and the entire Jeep lineup, which saw a 23 percent increase.

GM said sales of its full-size pickup trucks, the Chevrolet Silverado and avalanche and GMC Sierra, 65 percent compared to February of last year, another sign that the company start up, to make purchases again.

Crossover vehicles, the as are sport utilities but more efficiently, since you are car frames, saw large increases, led by the five passenger Chevrolet Equinox, which was up to 98 percent.

Toyota said sales of the Camry, the best-selling car in the United States, rose to 64 percent for the month, while the RAV4 crossover vehicle to 85 percent.

GM said its passenger car sales Cruze rose by 40 percent in February, under the direction of the new Chevrolet small car introduced late last year.

The associated press contributed to this report.