It looks like the American auto market isn’t the only group of car makers who are suffering from U.S. economic woes.  Daimler is reporting stagnating sales of their line of trucks.  The company soled 311,000 trucks between January and August, only slightly up from the 309.656 sold last year over the same time span.

Demand sagged in particular in the North American market, where sales dropped 18 percent to 72,000 vehicles, in line with market expectations, mainly due to the worsening economic situation in the United States. (Source Reuters)

As America becomes more communistic (since the government now more or less owns our banks and car manufactures I don’t see how we can’t be considered communists) sales have shifted to up and coming capitalistic economies like India and China.  Surely that is an anachronism you say, but think about it, they are the ones loosening economic restrictions and we are the ones tightening them.

Regardless of Daimler’s sagging truck market, sales of the company’s flagship, Mercedes-Benz trucks have grown in sales by 9%, and in fact Benz is looking to have record numbers this year.  So as we continue our downward spiral, other countries are picking up our slack and keeping these foreign giants alive and well.  I suppose the next question is whether or not we will be selling whatever we produce to the middle east and the far east in the near future.

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