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No prizes for guessing what Subaru s best-selling model was in America last month.
Subaru s sales in the UK right now are shocking, to say the least, with only 951 cars shipped in the UK last year. It s a different story in the US, thankfully, as the Japanese automaker is starting 2021 with record sales numbers. Last month, Subaru sold 46,400 cars in America. This was a marginal 0.25 percent increase over January 2020, but, crucially, the best January in the history of the company. We are proud to report that Subaru of America, Inc. will start calendar year 2021 with an all-time January sales record, an accomplishment we could not have achieved without our dedicated retailers, said Thomas J. Doll, President and CEO at Subaru of America.
Year-on-year sales were down by as whopping 68 percent.
The global pandemic had a huge impact on new car sales in 2020, but it wasn t bad news for every automaker. Many car manufacturers still managed to end the year on a high with record sales months. Subaru s US sales, for example, were up by 16 percent in September 2020 compared to September 2019 thanks to popular models like the Forester. In December 2020, Subaru shipped 63,558 in the US, a two percent increase compared to the same month in 2019.
It s a different story in the UK, however, where Subaru s sales figures were alarmingly low in 2020. Autocar reports Subaru delivered just 951 cars in the UK last year compared to just under 3,000 the year before - that s a dramatic year-on-year drop of over 68 percent. Ouch. 2020 was a horrible year, said Subaru UK Managing Director, John Hurtig.
The changes are very minor.
If you know anything about the average Subaru Forester owner, you ll likely know that these people don t like change - not when it comes to their beloved crossover wagon. Over the years, its design has evolved slightly, but there s nothing truly spectacular about each new version that comes out. One way to fix this would be an STI version, but alas, the only thing that really gets us excited about the new Forester is its turbo engine. So will the 2022 version change things, and completely revolutionize the Forester s styling? Based on some camouflaged images that design artist Nikita Chuiko has worked on, we don t think so.