{"id":101300,"date":"2006-06-05T06:45:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-05T06:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/a7c5cb36-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e"},"modified":"2006-06-05T06:45:00","modified_gmt":"2006-06-05T06:45:00","slug":"a7c5cb47-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/a7c5cb47-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e\/","title":{"rendered":"Car sales down 30 percent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Total auto sales in the CNMI dropped by 30 percent as of last month, bringing the total number units sold to 497 compared with the 706 posted last year.<\/p>\n<p>Latest statistics from the Commonwealth Auto Dealer\u2019s Association said that for the month of May this year, local dealers sold only 94 vehicles, a 15.3-percent decline from May 2005.<\/p>\n<p>Microl Corp. led the industry with 40 cars sold last month, representing 42 percent of the local market.<\/p>\n<p>Triple J sold 33 cars, which represents 35 percent of the total market share, while Joeten Motors sold 21 cars, cornering 22 percent of the market.  <\/p>\n<p>On a yearly basis, Microl leads with 97 sold units, followed by Joeten with 82, and Triple J with 73.<\/p>\n<p>In terms of brands, CNMI motorists continue to favor Toyota, Honda, and Mazda.<\/p>\n<p>Microl Corp. sells Toyota and Chevrolet while Joeten Motors sells Nissan, Ford, Honda, and Kia.<\/p>\n<p>Triple J Motors sells Hyundai, Mitsubishi, Isuzu, Suzuki, Subaru, and Mazda. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Total auto sales in the CNMI dropped by 30 percent as of last month, bringing the total number units sold to 497 compared with the 706 posted last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}