Fiat Chrysler is changing the way it reports monthly U.S. sales to make the process more transparent, and as a result of the change, said its 75-month sales streak would have ended at 40 months, in September 2013.
The revelation followed a report in Automotive News Monday on an internal investigation conducted by FCA in 2015 that found the automaker had 5,000 to 6,000 reported sales which had later been unwound -- meaning they were not completed.
FCA, in a statement, said the objective of the new sales reporting methodology “is to provide in FCA US’s judgment the best available estimate of the number of FCA US vehicles sold to end users through the end of a particular month applying a consistent and transparent methodology.”
The automaker said it went back and reviewed past monthly U.S. sales reports using the new methodology. It found a 3 percent monthly decline in September 2013, when it had previously reported a 1 percent increase. Likewise, in August 2015, its U.S. sales would have slipped 1 percent, instead of the 2 percent increase it reported. And as recently as May 2016, its U.S. sales would have dropped 7 percent instead of the 1 percent gain it reported.
FCA said that its “annual sales volumes under the new methodology for each year in the 2011-16 period are within approximately 0.7 percent of the annual unit sales volumes previously reported.”
FCA in una comunicazione borsistica ha annunciato di aver rivisto il sistema di calcolo delle vendite dei propri marchi negli USA, ormai da più di un anno c'erano sospetti sulla crescita di vendite ininterrotta da anni. Molti modelli stra vecchi come la Patriot e la Compass ancora negli ultimi mesi macinavano record su record. Non si parla di effetti importanti sui risultati finanziari. P.S. : tra l'altro il capo delle vendite negli USA è diventato nel frattempo il ceo di Maserati e Alfa Romeo, riuscirà a restare in sella?
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