Despite February’s downturn from January, sales in the first two months of the year on an annualized basis have the first quarter heading to the highest quarterly SAAR since Q2-2021. However, though sales are forecast to continue rising the rest of the year, economic and supply-related ramifications from the Russia-Ukraine conflict, as well as the continuation in February of never-ending unexpected, or surprise, chip-related production slowdowns, have added more risk to sequential growth than just a month ago.

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