Cars So Hot, They Are Flying Off The Lot

By Douglas A. McIntyre Published Apr 27, 1:12PM EDT

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Lexus Is At The Top Off The List
Toyota Is The Dominant Company
These Cars Get High Quality Scores

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“Days to turn.” “Days on lot.” “Market Day Supply”. Each shows how long it takes to sell a car, measured in days, from the time it is delivered to the dealer. CarEdge defines it. “MDS (market days supply) is a measure of the number of days it would take to sell all of a particular model of car, based on the current sales rate, assuming no additional inventory is added.”

There are some advantages to buyers. Among those is that dealers do not like to hold cars in inventory for over 100 days. On the other hand, cars with low MDS are those on which dealers keep prices high.

Interestingly, the cars with the lowest MDS have an average price of $66,969. The slowest-selling models have an average price of $55,161. Common sense would dictate that the figure should be the other way around. Low-priced cars should sell faster.

The two vehicles with the lowest MDS are both Lexuses, Toyota’s luxury brand. The MDS for the Lexus GX in March was 19 days. It is a high-priced SUV with a sticker price of $67,735. Next on the low MDS is the Lexus ES. It is the modestly priced Lexus sedan, priced at $48,795. Its MDS is 23 days.

Among the reasons that Lexus vehicles do so well is quality. The brand ranked first in the J.D. Power 2025 U.S. Dependability Study.

Of the next ten models with low MDS, six are Toyotas. These are the Prius (26 days), Sienna (34), RAV4 (36), Corolla Cross (36), Highlander (39), Sequoia (41), and Camry (41). Toyota ranks 4th on the J.D.Power list.

At the far end of the spectrum are the VW ID.4 (536) and Dodge Charger (452).

About the Author Douglas A. McIntyre →

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.