September Vehicle Sales Forecast: “Disappearing Inventory Taking U.S. Light-Vehicle Sales to Another Low in September”

From WardsAuto: Disappearing Inventory Taking U.S. Light-Vehicle Sales to Another Low in September (pay content)

Low inventories and supply issues continue to impacting vehicle sales.

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This graph shows actual sales from the BEA (Blue), and Wards forecast for September (Red).

The Wards forecast of 12.4 million SAAR, would be down about 5% from last month, and down 23.8% from a year ago (sales were solid in September 2020, as sales recovered from the depths of the pandemic).