July 2026 vehicle sales was restated from 16.78 to 16.15, a 3.8% downward revision. Anything indexed to the first print — escalator clauses, quoted material adders, budget baselines — now sits 3.8% away from the…
July 2026 vehicle sales was restated from 16.78 to 16.15, a 3.8% downward revision. Anything indexed to the first print — escalator clauses, quoted material adders, budget baselines — now sits 3.8% away from the official number.
As first published: 16.78 (August 7, 2026)
As restated: 16.15 (September 30, 2026)
Revisions of this size are routine for survey-based series — early prints are built on partial responses and completed later — but routine does not mean harmless. The first print was published August 7, 2026; the restatement landed September 30, 2026. Both values remain queryable: the vintage archive pins every number this series has ever shown, so a contract that referenced the July 2026 print can cite exactly what was published and when.
Source: U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis via FRED. The revised value is the agency's; the record of what it replaced is ours.