[adventured]

> US consumer auto sales per year are in the 16-17 million range. I personally wouldn't consider 3% to be "almost 10%", do you?

The parent comment said "cars." You switched that to consumer auto sales. 6.3 million passenger cars were sold in the US in 2017. With passenger car sales declining and generally losing popularity in the US (dropping from 7.9m in 2014), it's plausible that 500,000 will in fact be "almost" 10% of total cars sold in the US in 2019.

[SilasX]

In common parlance, an SUV counts in "all cars sold", so it's misleading, even if technically correct.

[ProfessorLayton]

I suppose if US passenger car sales, a segment the Model 3 & S belong to, decline by 1/3 in 2019 that statement could ring true.

[burger_moon]

Ford killed off their entire car line up except the mustang so there will be a fairly significant drop from that alone.