Ford’s new Bronco has been a hit \u2014 and still is.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nOn the heels of its strongest year in history in 2021, Porsche Cars North America, reported deliveries in the first three months of 2022 dropped 24.9 percent. The fall came as a fire sank a large freighter carrying new Porches and vehicles from other automotive brands, Porsche reported. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mazda North American Operations did better than most car makers, reporting total March sales of 33,023 vehicles, an increase of 3.2% compared to March 2021. Year-to-date sales totaled 82,268 vehicles; a decrease of 1.2% compared to the same time last year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mitsubishi Motor North America also reported its sales in the first quarter fell by less than 1% as the company maintained much of the momentum it had built up during 2021, the company said.\u00a0Volkswagen of America\u00a0Inc. reported sales of 64,993 units delivered in the first quarter of 2022, a 28.5%\u00a0to decline from\u00a0first quarter of\u00a02021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Stephanie Brinley, principal automotive analyst, S&P Global Mobility, noted \u201cLack of inventory continues to hold US sales back in the first quarter of 2022, which had been expected, though the Russia-Ukraine conflict has only exacerbated the already difficult situation.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ford Motor Co. saw its sales drop 17.1% in the first quarter of this year \u2014 including at 25.6% slide in March \u2014 as shortages of semiconductors continued to hobble the company\u2019s efforts to deliver more vehicles to customers. Get details at TheDetroitBureau.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20009,"featured_media":219814,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1347,7,8,5],"tags":[5538,364,5536,5537,417],"make":[],"post-state":[],"category_old":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222448"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20009"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222448"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":222450,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222448\/revisions\/222450"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222448"},{"taxonomy":"make","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/make?post=222448"},{"taxonomy":"post-state","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post-state?post=222448"},{"taxonomy":"category_old","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/category_old?post=222448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}