{"id":43061,"date":"2025-06-03T15:57:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T20:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=43061"},"modified":"2025-06-03T22:21:35","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T03:21:35","slug":"us-auto-sales-rate-plunges-in-may-after-pre-tariff-rush-fades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=43061","title":{"rendered":"US auto sales rate plunges in May after pre-tariff rush fades"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">June 3 (Reuters) &#8211; The U.S. light vehicle sales rate slumped in May by the most in about five years following a rush by auto shoppers during the previous two months to beat anticipated price hikes stoked by President Donald Trump&#8217;s tariffs on imported automobiles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Wards Intelligence on Tuesday reported the seasonally adjusted annual rate of light vehicle sales plunged to 15.65 million units last month from a revised 17.25 million in April and 17.83 million in March. May&#8217;s drop in the SAAR of about 1.6 million was the largest since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in April 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/autos-transportation\/us-auto-sales-rate-plunges-may-after-pre-tariff-rush-fades-2025-06-03\/\">reuters<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 3 (Reuters) &#8211; The U.S. light vehicle sales rate slumped in May by the most in about five years following a rush by auto shoppers during the previous two months to beat anticipated price hikes stoked by President Donald Trump&#8217;s tariffs on imported automobiles. Wards Intelligence on Tuesday reported the seasonally adjusted annual rate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":43062,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1155],"tags":[1464,29800,1465,3616,10442],"class_list":["post-43061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-auto","tag-plummet","tag-sales","tag-tariffs","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43061"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43063,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43061\/revisions\/43063"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/43062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}