‘Under the Pentastar’ Wraps the Week

“Under the Pentastar” is a weekly recap of some of the major stories at Chrysler Group LLC. In this week’s edition, we announce sales figures for February 2012; Mopar® and its expansion in South America; and the 2012 Dodge Charger Pursuit serving as pace car for this weekend’s NASCAR events in Phoenix.

Ram, Jeep Brands Lead Chrysler Group’s U.S. February Sales Growth

2011 Ram Outdoorsman

The following is an excerpt from Chrysler’s Blog published today.

“Spurred by Ram and Jeep® brands, Chrysler Group saw another month of year-over-year sales growth during February in the U.S.

February marked the 11th consecutive month of year-over-year sales increase with a 13% sales increase, topping out at 95,102 units.

In taking a look at the overall U.S. new vehicle sales market (link will open an Excel file) — data courtesy of Autodata Corp. — Chrysler Group came in as the #5 automaker with 9.6% of sales in February 2011. That’s about 3000 vehicles shy of the #4 auto OEM, and about 3000 vehicles north of the #6 automaker.

2011 Jeep Grand Cherokee Overland Summit

In looking at light truck sales, Chrysler Group ranked #3 with 15.4% of the U.S. market share, according to the Autodata data.

For the minivan segment, the Grand Caravan —  with 10,555 minivans sold, 12% better than February 2010 — topped its sister minivan, the Chrysler Town & Country. The T&C had February 2011 unit sales of 7904, down 9% from February 2010 but up nearly 21% from January .

The Grand Caravan was easily the #1 selling minivan in the U.S. — besting #2 by about 1700 units. The T&C is #4 in the U.S. (Sales units from the competitiveminivans compiled by doing a Google search and finding the data from each automaker’s site.)

2011 Dodge Grand Caravan

Through the first couple months of 2011, the Grand Caravan also is #1 in minivan sales in the U.S.”

For more info, check out the rest of Mike Driehorst’s blog post. Thanks for checking out Chrysler Catchall!