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Impala vs. Accord?

Gosh Mike, you always tell people to do their own research, why don't you figure it out ?

None of the car makers seems to release model by model fleet vs. retail sales results. However, have a look at this, which is only one of many references to the issue you can find.

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Fleets mask Big 3 woes Growing reliance on low-margin sales drains profits Bryce G. Hoffman / The Detroit News

"According to Murphy, Detroit's fleet sales reached new highs in the last three months of 2005, accounting for 29.5 percent of overall vehicle sales."

It is of course impossible to tell what the model mix is in those numbers or what the mix of daily rental fleet vs. other fleet user sales are.

If you travel frequently you will see that the Impala may yet dethrone the Taurus as the current king of the full size car rental fleet at the airports. Lots of Pontiacs out there in rental land as well.

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John Horner
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John Horner

After many years is the fleet sales and service business I can give you some facts. Most fleet sales, by around 80%, are to corporate and government fleets, not rental companies, that keep them is service for five years or

30K WOF. Second nearly every manufacture foreign and domestic sells, or tries to sell, to fleets. Domestic are just much more successful doing so. The 'hugh' fleet discount, that they ALL offer to get multiple orders of like vehicles, is around $600 if one buy five or more. Fleet sales are made by the individual dealers, not manufactures they can not sell vehicles directly to customers. Building a large number of like vehicles on the assembly line at the same time is less expensive, allowing for the discount. Most importantly NO manufacture, foreign or domestic cares who buys their vehicles. When it come to fleet sales the Koreans sell a higher percentage to fleets than ANY of the domestic manufactures.

The Taurus, the second best selling individual model in the US, goes away at the end of the 2006 production run. If you want one, go see the Fleet Sales Manager at you local Ford dealer. Since all the cars are basically the same except for minor option and colors, Ford was able to greatly reduce the build cost. It is a hell of a buy, fully equipped state of the art V6 vehicle under 20K, but you will not get the $600 fleet discount. ;)

mike hunt

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Mike Hunter

Hardly.

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