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Fiat Chrysler dealers will have to wait a bit longer for two highly anticipated big-ticket vehicles: a fully redesigned Ram heavy-duty pickup and a luxury SUV for Jeep, the Grand Wagoneer. It became clear that FCA's Ram brand will not redesign its current heavy-duty pickups onto its new DT pickup platform in 2018 but instead will keep the same body-in-white and refresh the existing DS-based model. Meanwhile, the automaker has placed a hold on its development of the Jeep Grand Wagoneer luxury SUV. The vehicle has been on Jeep's product plan since 2014 and was to boast three r...
Volkswagen Group led automotive spending on Advertising Age’s 2016 list of the top 100 advertisement spenders worldwide. Fifteen automakers and tire maker Bridgestone Corp. constituted the automotive category on the World’s Largest Advertisers list. Seven of those automakers made the top 25, Advertising Age. VW ranked No. 4 on the biggest-spenders list, with its ad spending in 2015 totaling $6.6 billion. General Motors was next for automakers, taking sixth place on the list. It spent $5.1 billion in 2015. Daimler AG ranked No. 7 and spent $5 billion. Ford Motor Co. took...
It's time to congratulate Ford Motor Co, since it's taking a much different approach to fleet sales than rival General Motors. While GM plans to slash sales to daily rental companies by 75,000 units this year and has plans for more cuts in 2017, the Blue Oval has held steady. Ford's president of the Americas, Joe Hinrichs says the the automaker doesn't see an adjustment necessary in the daily rental. Through November, Ford's daily rental sales are at the same level they were a year ago: 11 percent of its total sales. Year to date, Ford's total fleet sales are...
Global car sales have a big chance to set another record year. This extends gains to a seventh consecutive annual record and surpasses the previous upcycle which lasted six years. Purchases will be buoyed by improving labour markets at the fastest pace since early 2007 and a bottoming in purchases across emerging markets. Economic growth in developing countries is expected to pick up for the first time since 2010, helping reverse last year's slide in car sales which was driven by sharp contractions in both Russia and Brazil. Low gasoline prices, improving household balance sheet...
Tata Motors' Jaguar Land Rover November 2016 US sales included a 217% year on year rise in Jaguar volume to 3,381 units. Land Rover sales reached 5,659 units, the second highest November on record but down 13% from the record 6,539 units in November 2015. Sales for both brands rose 19% to 9,040 units, a JLR US market record for the month. Year-to-date JLR US sales rose 23% to 92,531. Joe Eberhardt, president and CEO, Jaguar Land Rover, North America, said that the company is proud to report a 19% unit sales increase for Jaguar Land Rover for the month, and a 23% increa...
