Greenwood led combined July new, used car sales

YOUNGSTOWN

Greenwood Chevrolet of Austintown sold the most new and used vehicles locally for the month of July, with 369 sold.

Data released by the Automobile Dealers Association of Northeastern Ohio on Wednesday showed Sweeney Chevrolet in Boardman came in second for the most new and used vehicles sold with a total of 297, but Sweeney did beat Greenwood for the most new cars sold with 227 compared to Greenwood’s 202 sold in July.

Both dealers were up from their numbers last year, according to the data.

Taylor Kia of Boardman came in third place for new and used car sales with 242 sold.

The leading brand locally in July was Chevrolet with 880 sold. Ford came in second with 402 and GMC came in third with 165.

Lordstown-built Chevrolet Cruze was July’s lead new model with 222 sold, which is an increase of 39 from last July.

The top five new models in the Valley for July were all GM brands. The Chevrolet Equinox came in second with 202 sold, the Silverado 1500 came in third with 121 sold, the Malibu came in fourth with 116 sold and the GMC Terrain was fifth with 88 sold.

Greenwood led the used car sales with 167 cars sold in July. The Cruze also led used car sales with 107 sold in July, an increase of 32 from last July.

The Malibu with 97 came in second for used car sales in July and the Impala came in third with 92 sold.