Volvo Cars of North America Sales Report for September 2005
IRVINE, Calif., Oct. 3, 2005 -- Volvo Cars of North America, LLC. reports sales of 9,542 units for September in the United States. The total for the month brings year-to-date sales to just under 100,000 units, which trails the 2004 record pace by 6 percent.
Overall, NAFTA (the United States including Puerto Rico, Canada, and Mexico) year-to-date sales are 5 percent behind last years' mark. While unit sales for the month are down in both Canada and Mexico, year-to-date Volvo Canada reports sales 4 percent ahead of its 2004 pace and Volvo sales in Mexico are 12 percent up for the same period.
VCNA, part of the Volvo Car Corporation of Gothenburg, Sweden, provides marketing, sales, parts, service, technology and training support to Volvo automobile retailers in the United States, and oversees Volvo operations in Canada, Mexico and Puerto Rico.
Volvo has been building cars with Safety in mind for over 75 years. The 2006 model line-up of Volvo Cars includes: the award-winning new S40 and its wagon counterpart the all-new V50; the award-winning XC90; the sporty S60 sedan -- including the award-winning performance sedan -- S60 R and the performance wagon version -- V70 R; the S80 luxury sedan; the versatile V70 wagon and rugged XC70 (Cross Country).
* U.S. sales include Puerto Rico
UNITED STATES
September* Year-to-Date*
2005 2004 % 2005 2004 %
Volvo Model
S40 0 3 -100.0% 4 4,721 -99.9%
All New S40 2,239 2,020 10.8% 19,556 12,423 57.4%
V40 1 33 -97.0% 8 1,488 -99.5%
V50 557 335 66.3% 4,500 929 384.4%
S60 1,782 1,561 14.2% 20,091 22,606 -11.1%
V70 569 767 -25.8% 5,995 8,434 -28.9%
XC70 1,150 1,457 -21.1% 11,246 12,888 -12.7%
C70 17 294 -94.2% 1,419 3,228 -56.0%
S80 665 874 -23.9% 8,321 10,523 -20.9%
XC90 2,562 3,222 -20.5% 26,806 27,384 -2.1%
USA TOTAL 9,542 10,566 -9.7% 97,946 104,624 -6.4%
CANADA
September Year-to-Date
2005 2004 % 2005 2004 %
Volvo Model
S40 0 1 -100.0% 0 278 -100.0%
All New S40 144 234 -38.5% 1,628 583 179.2%
V40 0 2 -100.0% 0 163 -100.0%
V50 78 70 11.4% 828 195 324.6%
S60 153 286 -46.5% 1,755 2,450 -28.4%
V70 128 75 70.7% 845 958 -11.8%
XC70 95 197 -51.8% 1,690 1,602 5.5%
C70 0 6 -100.0% 7 96 -92.7%
S80 41 33 24.2% 242 390 -37.9%
XC90 168 257 -34.6% 1,986 1,897 4.7%
CANADA TOTAL 807 1,161 -30.5% 8,981 8,612 4.3%
MEXICO
September Year-to-Date
2005 2004 % 2005 2004 %
Volvo Model
S40 0 5 -100.0% 3 218 -98.6%
All New S40 66 140 -52.9% 1,227 868 41.4%
V40 0 0 n/a 0 9 -100.0%
V50 9 0 n/a 54 0 n/a
S60 33 51 -35.3% 351 466 -24.7%
V70 0 0 n/a 0 0 n/a
XC70 1 0 n/a 18 10 80.0%
C70 0 1 -100.0% 6 10 -40.0%
S80 7 10 -30.0% 84 93 -9.7%
XC90 75 101 -25.7% 896 679 32.0%
MEXICO TOTAL 191 308 -38.0% 2,639 2,353 12.2%
NAFTA TOTAL 10,540 12,035 -12.4% 109,566 115,589 -5.2%
*U.S. totals include Puerto Rico