Sales to consumers slumped more than 16 percent, to $4 billion.
Sales slumped and the forecast was $108 billion too high.
Red Dog's sales have slumped by more than a quarter.
It was very widely read in the 1990s but its sales have slumped more recently.
Sales worldwide had slumped to less than 14,000 cars a year, from 30,000 in the early 1970's.
Sales slumped 15% to just over 1bn euros, and are now at less than half their levels a year ago.
After five record years, sales of new autos slumped 7 percent in the first six months.
Its sales slumped for the first time, and it struggled to recover.
A decade ago, sales of comedy records had slumped, and they received little air play on radio.
Even in Japan, though, sales of video and audio equipment slumped.
But there are growing signs that Japan is pulling out of its long recession and that the sales slump may be ending.
Mr. Proteau said the recent sales slump was far more pronounced than the one that hit during the 1981-82 recession.
The American sales slump has been a big factor in the struggles of the Japanese parent company, but not the only factor.
For some realtors, the long sales slump has already taken its toll.
If only Mitsubishi could similarly dream away its sales slump of recent years.
That was a reference to the recent sales slump of United States brands compared with import nameplates.
Still, speculation continues that the account could be placed in review if Mazda's American sales slump is not reversed.
The sales slump "is more a function of having no marketing support for a decade plus," he added, "than anything to do with the product."
Virtually unaffected by the sales slump has been Westport's summer rental market.
The current sales slump is already twice as long as the previous one in the mid-1970's.
