CANADA AUTO SALES APRIL 2009

Overall vehicle sales took a beating in Canada last month. The thirty days of April revealed serious downswings by the vast majority of automakers competing in Canada, when compared with statistics for April of 2008. Not surprisingly, Hyundai and Kia were top notch performers along with Mercedes-Benz. Honda fared shockingly poorly. For all the Numbers, keep reading. Find previous instances of this same type of post by clicking for Sales Stats here.

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General Motors: -23.6% to 29,476

Toyota: -17.9% to 19,599

Ford: -10.5% to 18,782

Chrysler: -36.8% to 15,242

Honda: -27.7% to 11,865

Hyundai: +14.8% to 10,809

Mazda: -10.1% to 8,195

Nissan: -17.8% to 6,532

Kia: +15% to 4,276

Volkswagen: +3.4% to 3,496

Mercedes-Benz: +21.3% to 2,267

Subaru: +4.1% to 2,050

BMW: -16.4% to 1,931

Mitsubishi: -4.8% to 1,844

Lexus: +4% to 1,621

Acura: -36.6% to 1,430

Audi: +10.9% to 1,251

Suzuki: -36.8% to 917

Volvo: -20.1% to 613

Infiniti: -40% to 542

Mini: -19.7% to 366

Porsche: -15.5% to 191

Saab: +14.3% to 160

Land Rover: -31.7% to 138

Jaguar: -22.1% to 88