With sales quite strong United States, its neighbor to the south, Canada is also feeling the good trends in its own car market as Canadians, too, continue a very powerful trend of car buying in 2010. Chrysler in particular has performed very well with a spike that was a full 53 percent increase in both car and truck sales for May of 2010. A year ago this same month, Chrysler was still struggling to pull itself out of the hole after being sent into bankruptcy during the economic crash that began in 2008 and affected the entire globe. After restructuring its business, shutting down quite a few plants and delivering cars only on a built to order platform, the company has leveraged its initial problems into a triumph. This is in stark contrast to the sales figures for comparable auto makers in Japan who have shown a real flat line in sales during the same month. Over all, Canadian auto sales have grown just 0.2% for the month of May, appearing to defy the strong buying trend in the US at this time, but analysts believe that they may yet experience an upturn in the coming months.
The 4 Chrysler brands offered today have all posted record sales for May. These brands are adding 28% over the past 5 months since the beginning of the year and they include: Jeep Wrangler, Dodge Journey, Ram Trucks and Dodge Challenger. In comparison to Chrysler phenomenal month, the other Detroit car makers, Ford Co. of Canada Limited and General Motors of Canada both posted far lower sales of 19% and a little over 15%, respectively.
