SUBARU AUGUST SALES RISE EIGHT PERCENT
-- Total sales up six percent year-to-date; Impreza sales up 15 percent


CHERRY HILL, N.J., Sept. 1, 2005 -- Subaru of America, Inc. today reported August sales totaling 17,426 units, showing an increase of eight percent for the month, over the same period last year. Total sales are six percent higher year-to-date over last year and Subaru Impreza sales are up 15 percent for the second consecutive month.

The all-new Subaru B9 Tribeca hit 2,022 units for the month of August. The Subaru Legacy model line recorded a total 7,441 units, while Subaru Outback posted 5,044 units for the month. The Subaru Impreza line was up again 15 percent over the same period last year with 3,054 unit sales. Subaru Forester posted 4,349 units in August, while Subaru Baja recorded 560 units for the month.

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About Subaru of America, Inc.
Subaru of America, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd. of Japan. Headquartered in Cherry Hill, N.J., the company markets and distributes Subaru Symmetrical All-Wheel Drive vehicles, parts and accessories through a network of nearly 600 dealers across the United States. Subaru makes the best-selling All-Wheel Drive car sold in America based on R.L. Polk & Co. new vehicle retail registration statistics calendar year-end 2004. For additional information visit www.subaru.com.http://vocuspr.vocus.com/VocusPR30/DotNet/Newsroom/ViewAttachment.aspx?SiteName=Subaru&Entity=PRAsset&AttachmentType=F&EntityID=98387&AttachmentID=a82a075d-c624-4903-a70a-5a92fecba9d9

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August Sales Summary:

..............................2005............2004 ........DIFFERENCE...... %
Legacy.....................7,441...........7,656.. ........(215).......(2.8%)
Forester...................4,349...........5,195.. ........(846)......(16.3%)
Impreza...................3,054...........2,647... ........407.........15.4%
Tribeca....................2,022............ -- .............2,022
Baja..........................560.............567. .............(7)........(1.2%)
Aug 2005 sales.......17,426..........16,065..........1,361. .......8.5%
YTD sales.............128,688.........121,887......... 6,801........5.6%

Legacy sedan............1,772...........1,878..........(1 06).......(5.6%)
Legacy wagon............5,569...........5,778..........(2 09).......(3.6%)
Outback....................5,044...........4,823.. .........221.........4.6%
Impreza sedan...........1,737...........1,535...........20 2........13.2%
Impreza wagon..........1,317..........1,112............205 ........18.4%

...........................AUG...........YTD
2005 sales...........17,426.......128,688
2004 sales...........16,065.......121,887
2003 sales...........19,879.......130,227
2002 sales...........18,537.......120,284
2001 sales...........17,156.......122,212

Woo Hoo, Go Subaru! :D

nice. Hard to believe that the Tribeca put Aug 2005 well abouve aug 2004

nice. Hard to believe that the Tribeca put Aug 2005 well abouve aug 2004

Well if you wanted to look at it strictly by what was available then and now, Subaru sold less cars than last year, but who's to say the people that bought a Tribeca wouldn't have settled on a Forester.

It would have been nice to see them get at least 18,087 cars out the door (last year's Aug total + Tribecas), but considering the current gas situation it's certainly not bad.

I got my RS and my g/f loves the power delivery and feel of AWD. So we test drove an 02 WRX, now she wants to buy a bran new 06 or 07 WRX. The WRX was an automatic and i've never been in a car that drove that smooth.

So, why is the Legacy WAGON destroying both the Outback AND the Legacy Sedan and then getting hit with limited options??!? (Manual, etc)

/edit: Well, I guess it must be that most of those 5,500ish Wagons were auto transmission....Damnit.

-Allen

So, why is the Legacy WAGON destroying both the Outback AND the Legacy Sedan and then getting hit with limited options??!? (Manual, etc)

/edit: Well, I guess it must be that most of those 5,500ish Wagons were auto transmission....Damnit.

-AllenThe bulk of the Legacy wagons sold last month were Outbacks. See http://forums.nasioc.com/forums/showthread.php?t=652804 for why.

lol. What carmaker didn't have record sales in August? Seriously. Surbaru as noted. Mini up 43% yoy, BWM overall up 4%, Honda/Acura had record sales overall and significant improvement yoy on many models. Domestics I assume did well due to the "employee pricing". Did anybody have a worse August yoy?

Am I reading this correctly that Baja sales > Legacy (non-Outback) Wagon sales?

Steve

GM Vehicles Sales Fall 16.7% in August. (http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/050901/general_motors_sales.html?.v=1) And that's with discounts, mind you.

It's amazing that Subaru can justify selling merely (approx) 550 Bajas a month, but can't find justification for a higher-performance-than-WRX wagon.

']The bulk of the Legacy wagons sold last month were Outbacks. See http://forums.nasioc.com/forums/showthread.php?t=652804 for why.


Legacy sedan............1,772
Legacy wagon............5,569
Outback....................5,044


:confused: I'm obviously missing something.

Is the new gen Outback even available as a sedan? Even if it is, from your other thead, 95% of Outbacks are wagons. So 5044 x .95 = 4792.

5569 > 5044
5569 > 4792

Does anyone else find it odd that they have their positive values in parenthesis instead of their negative values?


Isn't that one of the first things they teach you in accounting??

-Matt

SOA treats Outback as a subset of Legacy. So, 7,441 Legacy models were sold last month. Of those, 5,044 were Outback models.

Negative values ARE in parens....... :)

Yes, the 3.0R LL Bean Outback is a sedan.

7,441 = ALL LEGACY sales in Aug '05
Of that..5,569 = Legacy wagons (includes Outbacks)
1,772 = Legacy sedans (includes Outbacks)
5,044 = Outback sales (mostly wagons)
2,397 = Non-Outback Legacys (both sedans & wagons)

If historically 95% of Outback sales (5,044) are wagons, then as Post #11 says, then it works out to be 4,792 were wagons (and 252 sedans).

Using the 95% estimate for Aug, 777 Legacy wagons (non-Outback) and 1,520 Legacy sedans (non-Outback) were sold.

I dont have a complete sales breakdown but I estimate that non-Outback Legacy wagon sales volumes barely eclipse Baja sales of 550/month.

If historically 95% of Outback sales (5,044) are wagons, then as Post #11 says, then it works out to be 4,792 were wagons (and 252 sedans).

Using the 95% estimate for Aug, 777 Legacy wagons (non-Outback) and 1,520 Legacy sedans (non-Outback) were sold.

I dont have a complete sales breakdown but I estimate that non-Outback Legacy wagon sales volumes barely eclipse Baja sales of 550/month.If 777 Legacy wagons (33.8%) and 1,520 Legacy sedans (66.2%) were sold last month, then that syncs nearly perfectly with the NY Times article that said 1/3 of Legacy sales are wagons

Negative values ARE in parens....... :)
Ahhhh! I was reading the sales figures as if the years were in chronological order... not assbackwards. ;)


-Matt

now we just need someone to break down how many of those legacy wagons were manual GTs...this way we can have a definitive number on the mythical popularity of the manual turbo wagons...so the "i'm gonna buy this side of never" manual turbo wagon people can see why it was discontinued

[QUOTE=flyinpig]Yes, the 3.0R LL Bean Outback is a sedan.[QUOTE]


the 2005 is just a 3.0r outback (non-L.L. beaner) sedan only

the 2006 3.0r is now the being called with L.L. Beaner moniker.

now we just need someone to break down how many of those legacy wagons were manual GTs...this way we can have a definitive number on the mythical popularity of the manual turbo wagons...so the "i'm gonna buy this side of never" manual turbo wagon people can see why it was discontinuedYeah. Likely, less than half the Legacy wagons were MT. Same goes for the proportion of GT wagons to normally aspirated wagons. All of which suggests the number of Legacy GT wagons with the 5MT sold last month was just a few hundred, at best.

I'm curious as to what is prompting the increase in demand for the Impreza wagon. Last fall they were having a very hard time moving them. Perhaps the indirect publicity of all those magaizne and newspaper reviews over the past year on the Saab 9-2X mentioning that it was derived from the Impreza may have had an impact?