December Sales Pull the Ripcord

December auto sales were still horrid in a year-over-year comparison, but due to seasonal variations the actual numbers were up about 15% from last month. Only Chrysler and Kia registered month-over-month declines. On the other hand, Mini was the only brand to register year-over-year increases.

Here's the annualized and per capita sales.

Here's the same thing but zoomed in, just because.

Here's sales by brand.

And here's sales for groups and major "independents".

Finally, here's a non-sales graph that I found slightly interesting.