Caprice sales figures

[elc32955]

August figures are in, 427 units sold last month. Good number

Eric

[elc32955]

September sales figures are in. 334 units sold in this month.

Eric

[Gerome]

Nice to know there will be plenty of parts to be had lol . Thanks for doing the numbers for us on the cars we love .

[elc32955]

October 2014 numbers are in. 301 units sold last month....

Thanks
Eric

[elc32955]

This is perplexing. November sales numbers are in, 288 units sold last month. If they did a "stop-sale" order under the NHTSA campaign, nothing should have been sold in November 2014. Soooo.....

[Gerome]

This is perplexing. November sales numbers are in, 288 units sold last month. If they did a "stop-sale" order under the NHTSA campaign, nothing should have been sold in November 2014. Soooo.....

Sooo , somebody is lying about something . Either the sales figures or the stoppage one or the other . Like my says its all a conspiracy lol .

[storm9c1]

Details about the "stop-sale" order?

[elc32955]

It's in the recall papers (attached files) on the NHTSA website for both the key issue and the 9C1 shifter issue. I don't have a copy on this computer at the moment but I'll see if I can post it as soon as I can get the image on a thumb drive. I had to reformat a hard drive here a day or so ago and I'm still picking up the pieces.

Eric

[elc32955]

December 2014 numbers are in, 288 units sold during the month. Weird that the number is the exact same figure as November, but I guess it can happen. Still dismal numbers at best.....

[9C1fanatic]

I wonder how accurate this source is. I haven't really paid that much attention so I could be in accurate but I believe I read a newspaper article several years back stating that the Caprice was the new standard issue patrol car for Seattle Washington. I also read that a few state police agencies have started buying them. I'm sure there are several others if we went out and started looking but it seems like just a few very large cities purchasing this car would be enough to send the monthly totals over 1000 mark which I have not seen yet.

Now I don't know much about this part of the country maybe somebody on the forms from around there. But it seems like anymore very few very large cities I have personally assign patrol cars anymore and usually use a fleet system where the cars are shared. They don't hold up as well and a rack up mileage much quicker this way which means that although the city can buy less cars than they have officers they have to replace them much more often every couple of years or so. So take Seattle for example I'm not sure what their population is but there are cities that size in Texas that would buy more than 500 cArs all at one time.

Another thing is that most governments get their money at certain times a year to make their purchases and will usually purchase cars the same time every year so I would expect certain months to be peaked with much higher sales than others but they all seem pretty consistent. Maybe I'm wrong and maybe Seattle is not as big as I think it is but just a thought. It would only take just a couple of large agencies anywhere in the whole country for one of those months to have a very high rate of sales compared to the others. Interesting.

Either way it's a far cry from the 40+ thousand B body caprices that were sold almost every year in the 90s. But to be fair there is a lot more competition now which has resulted in better vehicles in some degree. Nobody has a true monopoly anymore though Ford has roughly half the business if you combine both models they sell. I just feel sorry for any police officer that is taller than 5 foot nine if their agency bought Tauruses.