Sacramento-area new car sales up 22% in first half of 2011
In a year of stock market plunges, double-digit unemployment and dismal real estate numbers, Sacramento-area new car sales are … doing rather well, actually.
In fact, the Sacramento metropolitan area was among the nation’s top growth markets in new motor vehicle registrations in the first half of this year, according to a study released this week by Santa Monica-based Edmunds.com.
Edmunds said Sacramento had 22 percent year-over-year growth, well ahead of the national average of 14 percent, and behind only Atlanta (24 percent) and Phoenix (23 percent). There were 45,230 new registrations in the area in the first six months of this year, up from 36,942 in 2010.