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Originally Posted by 16Panther
Its not really anecdotal since I've owned a 2011 Traverse and 2015 Acadia and know what I want out the vehicle and participate in their forums, too.
Its also not anecdotal that the sales manager at the largest dealership in my area told me the '17 Acadia sales are off and they aren't moving.
The three data points you provided doesn't necessarily tell all. Sales are down 16-18% from last year while up in months that GM threw money at them. The '17's arrived at dealerships when, in May/June?
Just like Camaro sales, Acadia sales improved once the incentives started hitting.
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Those are still all anecdotal. Forums are a terrible metric when establishing what the buying public as a whole thinks because the vast majority of consumers don't care enough about their cars to sign up on a website to talk about them, especially high volume, normal cars like crossovers. And one dealership doesn't represent the entire country.
2017s arrived at dealers around June with extremely tight inventories and if I remember correctly, only spent an average of 11 days on the lot before turning (which makes me think your sales manager either isn't telling you the truth, simply mismanaged the launch at his dealership, or the local market was slow). Inventories became more widespread in following months, which coincide with the monthly increases in sales. And take a look at sales of Traverse/Enclave: they've been off year-over-year too, even more so than Acadia.
And what incentives? The only ones in my area are an ultra low mileage lease for the C1XXs and a financing deal. No cash on the hood. Same thing when I try a Minnesota zip code. The leftover Lambdas have cash on the hood as expected.
Face it: You might not like the fact that GM shifted Acadia to a midsize platform, but there's no hard evidence to suggest it's hurting sales at all. And as KMPrenger and I have pointed out, if the size is that big of an issue, Traverse and Enclave both won't be downsizing to the midsize segment, so it's not like GM abandoned the full size crossover segment completely.