Nashville, TN – Dataium, the largest aggregator of Internet automotive shopping activity, trecently released its monthly ASI report. The ASI index, a leading predictive indicator of automotive retail sales, climbed by over 10% in December, mirroring the trends reported in the previous year’s (December 2010) ASI.
Import luxury manufacturers, Mercedes-Benz and Audi, posted another strong month in December, growing leads by over 40%. Likewise, despite a bankruptcy announcement and dropping warranty coverage, Saab posted significant gains across all key performance indicators of the ASI.
December proved to be a favorable month for Japanese automakers Honda and Toyota, which posted 23% and 26% gains in lead volume respectively. Additionally two Honda vehicles, the Element and the Odyssey, exhibited the highest lead to visitor ratios of all new vehicles. To the contrary, Korean manufacturers, Kia and Hyundai, saw declines in inventory searches for the second straight month, down 43% and 31% respectively.
“If reflective of early 2011, we expect these considerable gains to continue through the end of January as consumers expand the volume and variety of vehicles they shop for,” stated Eric Brown, CEO of Dataium.
Through proprietary data collection and analytics, Dataium aggregates and measures billions of auto shopper behavioral events from over 60 million active auto shoppers across a network of diverse automotive websites. Dataium not only provides data and research on auto shopper/buyer behavior nationally, but by specific makes, models, vehicle segments, and markets, as well. The national report is available for download atdataium.com/library. Dataium reports and dashboards are available on a subscription basis or may be customized to access real-time updates to measure in-market lead behavior, advertising effectiveness, digital marketing performance, and website design proficiency.
To request complete access to Dataium’s ASI predictive modeling tool on future consumer demand by make, model, trim level, segment, region, and market, contact Dataium at www.dataium.com/contact, or call 877-896-DATA (3282).
About Dataium, LLC
Dataium is the largest aggregator of Internet automotive shopping activity. With its Cloud Intelligence™ platform, the company collects, analyzes, and indexes billions of online automotive shopping events from over 60 million active auto shoppers. The company supports cutting-edge data collection and reporting technology; VisiCogn® Collection Utility, VisiCogn® Knowledge Center, VisiCogn® INSITE, and is also known for its ASI™ index. For more information, visit www.dataium.com, email: info@dataium.com, or call 877-896-DATA (3282).
