According to Reuters, during the same period, GM sales fell 23%, Ford fell 19%, and Chrysler fell nearly 30%.
This is an industry-wide issue, but to john, the story is that people are finally getting wise to the fact that Lexus makes terrible cars, and all those reviews and consumer surveys have been filled with lies all these years!
Also, isn't it strange that john loves to refer to Lexus as Toyota on this newsgroup, but in this case he neglects to share the fact that over the same period, Toyota is up 3.4%, bucking the industry trend.
I think Andrew Lang may have been referring to john when he said, "He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts - for support rather than illumination".