October Vehicle Sales Forecast: Unchanged Year-over-year

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

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

Sales have bounced back from the April low, and will likely be unchanged year-over-year in October.

The Wards forecast of 16.8 million SAAR, would be up about 3% from September.

This would put sales in 2020, through October, down about 17% compared to the same period in 2019.