What if GM sales keep increasing from 1999

What if GM sales keep increasing from 1999 and here's the chart of sales vehicles are sold also i got it from wikipedia here's the link:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors

1998 4,603,991
1999 5,017,150 9.0%
2000 5,082,372 1.3%
2001 5,133,196 1.0%
2002 5,179,395 0.9%
2003 5,288,162 2.1%
2004 5,341,044 1.0%
2005 5,554,686 4.0%
2006 6,037,943 8.7%
2007 6,418,334 6.3%
2008 7,888,132 22.9%
2009 10,262,460 30.1%
2010 10,908,995 6.3%
2011 12,403,528 13.7%
2012 12,862,458 3.7%
2013 13,801,418 7.3%
2014 14,532,893 5.3%
2015 15,259,538 5.0%
2016 15,457,912 1.3%
 
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ASB. What you have there is GM selling 14.5 million vehicles (bigger than the entire OTL market that year) in just the American market. I don't think its possible to get the American auto market or General Motors to the point where they could sell on that scale.
 
The idea of a more successful GM is interesting, but I'm going to have to agree with TheMann in saying that those numbers are crazy. You're asking GM to sell almost five times what they did in OTL last year.
 

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Uh... TOTAL vehicle sales in 2014, from all sources, came in at 16.6 million. You are giving GM an 87% market share.:eek:

Utterly impossible.

As for what it would mean, it would mean that virtually every other manufacturer has gone out of business.
 
I'm a bit confused what you mean when you say you "got it from wikipedia"... Wiki (according to the link you provided) has 2014 sales at 2.9m, not 14m. Or... are you roll playing here?

The US population from 1998 to 2011 (when auto saturation was 809 cars per 1,000 people) goes up by ~30m from 267m to 298m. Not a huge percentage increase. You're proposing a more than doubling in car sales from 1998 to 2011.
To increase vehicles sales by that much, you're looking at roughly twice as many cars as people. That's a ridiculous increase.

The only way this way this would be even remotely possible is if all other vehicle manufacturers (as has been mentioned) totally dropped from the market. And that ain't happen'in. :eek:
 

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where did you get this at and mine is at 14.5 million from wikipedia

14.5 million what? U.S. auto sales?

The initial figure you show (4.6M) is domestic U.S. sales in 1998. Depending on source U.S. sales of new light trucks and passenger cars, for all makes, were 16,531,070 for FY 2014

http://www.goodcarbadcar.net/2015/01/december-2014-usa-autosales-brand-results-rankings.html

actually i calculated from that

What you did was throw percentage increases at the data by changing the negatives to pluses. You utterly ignored anything else, especially what the potential global market could be, what the impact of a Global and very deep recession had on sales, and the fact that other manufacturers exist.

In short this is a GIGO.
 
I assume GM has bought Chrysler, merged with VAG and other car films and Toyota and Ford have gone out of business for such a thing to happen.
 
my dad says that it should be stable and growing and heres the divisions light truck and heavy truck division 3 luxury brands and a conglomerate brand (cars trucks heavy and light trucks) not just shrinking
 
my dad says that it should be stable and growing and heres the divisions light truck and heavy truck division 3 luxury brands and a conglomerate brand (cars trucks heavy and light trucks) not just shrinking

A stable and growing GM is quite possible, but NOT to that degree. The best I can see them doing in 2015 in a TL is about six to seven million cars sold a year. You're wanting to see double that, which is impossible.
 
oh your talking about in this timeline from oh you mean which is 9.92 million cars sold for worldwide production and 2.9 million us sales from GM and what degree
 
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