Truck, SUV sales up, car sales down

Truck, SUV sales up, car sales down

In this Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2017, photograph, Ford deals expert Yanaisis Milian expels the merchant tag on a sold 2017 Ford Explorer at a vehicle dealership in Hialeah, Fla. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz) 

DETROIT (AP) — America's relationship with SUVs and trucks proceeded in March as General Motors, Honda and Nissan detailed deals increments for both. However, that is being balanced by falling auto deals, pushing general deals for Honda and Ford down contrasted and a year ago. 

Portage encountered a major deals drop for the month, falling 7.5 percent from March of 2015. Honda's business likewise were off, by 2 percent. GM detailed about a 2 percent pick up, while Nissan deals were up a little more than 3 percent. 

Most significant automakers report deals during that time on Monday. Regardless of falling deals for Honda and Ford, industry investigators anticipate that a 2 percent will 3 percent expansion for the business general in March, the primary month to month deals hop this year, and conceivably the best March in 17 years. 

At Ford, auto deals fell an amazing 24 percent, due to a limited extent to enormous armada deals detailed in March of a year ago. SUV deals fell 3 percent, however truck deals rose 2.5 percent, driven by a 10 percent expansion offers of the F-Series pickup, the top-offering vehicle in America. 

General Motors, the country's top-offering automaker, announced a 2 percent pick up driven by little and moderate size SUVs with a 21 percent expansion. Truck deals rose 0.5 percent. Offers of most GM autos were down, aside from the minimal Cruze, with deals almost multiplying from a year ago. Chevrolet Silverado pickup deals fell almost 12 percent, yet that was balanced by littler SUVs. For instance, the Buick Encore minimal SUV saw a 29 percent expansion. 

Honda said its March deals fell just shy of 1 percent, dragged around hanging interest for its Acura extravagance mark. Auto deals were off 8.7 percent, while truck and SUV deals rose 8.4 percent. Honda mark deals were up 2 percent, and Acura deals down more than 21 percent. The organization sold almost 33,000 CR-V little SUVs, a 23 percent pick up. 

Nissan's general deals rose 3.2 percent with trucks and SUVs rising 29 percent for the Nissan and Infiniti brands joined. Nissan was at the end of the day driven by the Rogue little SUV, which set a March deals record of almost 40,000 vehicles for a 20 percent expansion. Auto deals fell 15 percent