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title: "Drive Wire for July 27, 2016: FCA’s 75-Month Run of Sales Growth Was Actually Just 40 Months"
description: "Under revised rules for tabulating results, the sales streak ended in 2013."
date: "2016-07-27"
modified: "2016-07-27"
authors:
  - name: "The Drive Staff"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/the-drive-staff"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/article/4593/drive-wire-for-july-27-2016-fcas-75-month-run-of-sales-growth-was-actually-just-40-months"
categories:
  - "News"
---

# Drive Wire for July 27, 2016: FCA’s 75-Month Run of Sales Growth Was Actually Just 40 Months

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On today's installment of Drive Wire, *The Drive* discusses the news that Fiat Chrysler's reported 75-month-long streak of ever-increasing sales actually concluded after 40 months, according to the carmaker's revised method of calculating the number of vehicles it moved. On Tuesday, FCA released a lengthy press release detailing the new way it will be using to calculate vehicle sales; when applied retroactively, it reveals that the company's claimed six-plus year increase in the number of cars and trucks technically concluded in September 2013. For more on this story, check out the video above, as well as [the accompanying article right here on](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/4592/fiat-chryslers-sales-streak-actually-ended-3-years-ago>) *[The Drive](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/4592/fiat-chryslers-sales-streak-actually-ended-3-years-ago>)*.

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