August Vehicle Sales Forecast: 11% Year-over-year Decline

From Wards: U.S. Light Vehicle Sales & Inventory Forecast, August 2020 (pay content)

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This graph shows actual sales from the BEA (Blue), and Wards forecast for August (Red).

Sales have bounced back from the April low, but are still down sharply year-over-year.

The Wards forecast of 15.2 million SAAR, would be up 4.7% from July, and down 11% from August 2019.

This would put sales in 2020, through August, down about 20% compared to the same period in 2019.