Auto dealers keep -pushing sales pedal
Area car dealers made it seven straight months of rising new-vehicle sales with an 18.5 percent gain in April over April 2007, according to a local dealers association report Monday.
Title offices in Trumbull, Mahoning and Columbiana counties recorded 2,683 new-vehicle titles in the month, 419 more than a year ago, according to the Automobile Dealers Association of Eastern Ohio.
Year-to-date new car and truck sales are up 12.5 percent at 9,870 over 8,777 last year.
Used car and truck registrations, after a rocky start to the year, inched up 2 percent with 4,065 sales versus 3,981 last year. Year-to-date sales still lag last year’s pace at 15,178 to 15,461.
Sweeney Buick Pontiac GMC in Boardman led association member dealers with 275 total sales — 198 of them new vehicles — nine better than last year. Stadium GM Superstore was second with 226 overall sales, including 149 new vehicles, up 54.
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