AMERICA'S JULY AUTO SALES STATS

July was longer this year. Uh... lemme explain. In 2007, automakers had just 24 days to sell cars in July while this year, July had 26 selling days. Therefore it's theoretically possible that a manufacturer with a - symbol beside its numerical percentage actually sold more cars this July. In fact, with the BMW Group; Kia; Subaru; Suzuki; and Volkswagen all find themselves within that theory. July was successful - but not as successful as one might think at first glance. By brands, and ignoring unrevealed sales from Land Rover and Jaguar, here are America's auto sales statistics from July 2008 with a twist. There ain't no alphabetical order below. You can read'em first to worst in total sales.

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Toyota: -18% to 175,242

Ford: -20.6% to 138,175

Chevrolet: -30.5% to 137,823

Honda: -8.2% to 125,916

Nissan: +1.7% to 86,070

Dodge: -23.5% to 54,546

Hyundai: -13.6% to 40,703

Kia: -3% to 28,021

GMC: -42.5% to 27,447

Pontiac: -22% to 25,373

BMW: -9.1% to 23,914

Jeep: -44% to 22,705

Mazda: -20% to 22,418

Lexus: -25% to 22,182

Chrysler: -44.4% to 20,858

Mercedes: +3% to 20,733

Volkswagen: -4% to 20,422

Saturn: -20.2% to 17,602

Subaru: -2.7% to 16,271

Cadillac: -31% to 13,022

Acura: -17% to 12,828

Buick: -44.5% to 10,013

Infiniti: -10.9% to 9,249

Mitsubishi: -14% to 9,644

Mercury: -20% to 9,412

Lincoln: 8.8% to 8,819

Suzuki: -5.8% to 8,103

Audi: -11.9% to 6,804

Volvo: -50.4% to 5,124

Mini: +14.9% to 5,063

Porsche: -10.6% to 3,128

Saab: -42.4% to 2,026