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GM, Ford, Toyota: April Sales Mixed Bag

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At least Toyota (TM) is not invincible. Its US sales fell in April from 220,000 to 210,000, a drop of about 4%. But, last year’s month had two extra sales days. On that basis, Toyota sales rose a little less than 4%. The monthly comparisons are pesky with the different time frames.

Sales for the DaimlerChrysler (DCX) Chrysler unit did better than expected, up 2% to 193,000. Mercedes sales were flat at 21,000. Those numbers are unadjusted for differences in sales days.

Ford (F) was beaten like a mule, down 13% to 229,000. Car sales were down 24%. Again, these are not adjusted for the month being 26 sales days last year and 24 days this year.

GM (GM) posted a 9.5% decline in April U.S. light vehicle sales to 307,554 cars and trucks from 339,796 a year ago.

No winners.

Douglas A. McIntyre

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Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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