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Looks like car manufacturers have finally understood the importance of the quality and that is why they started to provide better cars. A survey revealed that the new vehicles sold in U.S. this year have a higher quality than previously. Don't get perplexed because there are much more surprises for you this time. As we are used to traditionally European and Japanese luxury cars have dominated the IQS, but not and this time. Yeah, a lot of improvements have come at a near-record pace. The study that was based on the answers of 80.000 Americans who bought cars this year shows that...
As we've wrote earlier the U.S. auto sales have been weaker this year than expected, we felt it good after the May sales results got revealed and it seems like only GM will have a sales growth going forward, while the rest of the car manufacturers seem to go weaker. Many consumers are focusing on leases and that might be the main reason why auto sales cooled down this much and are only higher by only 1.8% year-to-date.The Bank of America Analysts are concluding that the auto industry is entering the top of the eighth inning. One of these analysts named John Murphy says that the ...
It's been 3 weeks now since we've wrote about the last car recall which belongs to Takata, and we were absolutely convinced that it will take a while until a new brand finds out about some vehicle defects, but it looks like we were wrong. The next automaker that is about to recall its vehicles is BMW, more than 180,000 X3 and X4 crossovers are being recalled in the U.S. in order to fix some faulty lower anchor bars used in securing child restraint seats. The 2011-17 models of X3 that were manufactured between July 2010 and April 2016 and the models of X4 manufactured between March...
German cars are always on the top of world sales. However U.S. sales of BMW brand vehicles decreased 6.4 percent in May for a total of 29,017 compared to 31,003 vehicles sold in May, 2015. President and CEO, BMW of North America, Ludwig Willisch, said the shorter number of selling days in May no doubt affected the month totals, but he also mentioned the ongoing transition to X models among the possible solutions. The BMW X1 grows more popular each month with its siblings X3 and X6 giving it strong support. The X5 was limited only by availability but that will continue impr...
It's time to forget about those high cost of meeting new fuel economy standards and massive investments needed for autonomous vehicles, the biggest problem in the profitability of the automakers might be the buyers and their impatience.Less than 5% of new vehicles in U.S. in 2015 were built to customer order, which is so much lower than in Europe were about 50% of the vehicles were produced on customer orders. Did you know that for U.S. dealers it means thousands of dollars in extra floorplan expenses while for automakers it's a huge advertising and incentive costs for each unsold vehi...
