Highlights and Takeaways From General Motors’ January Sales Data

All in all, it wasn’t such a bad start to 2017 after the U.S. auto industry set yet another annual sales record last year. While sales did decline 1.9% in January, compared to the prior year, the industry’s seasonally adjusted annual rate managed to top estimates and reached 17.57 million — just barely under the prior year’s 17.62 million in January 2016.