August Vehicle Sales Forecast: "Light-Vehicle Sales to Continue Downward Spiral"

From WardsAuto: JAugust U.S. Light-Vehicle Sales to Continue Downward Spiral (pay content)

Low inventories and supply issues (microchips) are impacting sales.

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

The Wards forecast of 14.1 million SAAR, would be down about 4% from last month, and down 7.5% from a year ago (sales were recovering in July 2020 from the depths of the pandemic).