Imagine General Motors suffering an 82% drop in sales over the course of the last decade. You know what this would do to the U.S. car market? For one thing, it would’ve meant GM only sold 875,279 vehicles in America in 2010 instead of the 2.2 million the conglomerate actually sold. But, tragically in a purely hypothetical fashion, an 82% decline over the last decade would have placed the city of Detroit in an even worse state of affairs. Through all of this, it’s worth noting that the market as a whole has decreased by 33% since the 2001 calendar year.
Despite the market’s overall decline, the Graph below showcasing Mitsubishi’s drastic downfall since 2001, or even 2002, as well as Suzuki’s sharp cliff-dive after 2007, doesn’t mince facts. In fact, trends and lines and numbers like you see here should cause even the most casual observers to wonder why Mitsubishi and Suzuki maintain a presence in the United States. And how the two Japanese companies maintain a presence.
