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Originally Posted by Tcoat
Very strong probability. It confuses the issue when we have sales numbers but no idea how many were made. Many of these dips may be deceiving because there were really no cars to be sold.
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I was always under the impression that these numbers are gathered from Toyota as a corporate entity, not the dealers reporting and feeding back to end up on this website, for all we know 600+ of the cars reported for August could be sitting on dealer lots, but Toyota got paid to drop them off so they are 'sold'.
Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong but if so then these numbers would essentially be 'supply line' figures not end sales data.
Then again, looking up the RX-8 on this site shows 1 sold in 2012 so maybe it is true sales as I doubt Mazda shipped one lone unit for January 2012.