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China expects its annual automobile production output to reach 30 million by 2020 and 35 million by 2025. The car sales are expected to rise also, new energy sales might reach 2 million units by 2020. Today China is the world’s largest market for new car sales. Last year 28 million cars were sold in China, and if it’s going to reach those expected 35 million, this amount is gonna be nearly double the 17,5 million units sold in United States last year. The country’s focus on NEVs, a category that includes battery electric cars, plug-in hybrids and fuel-cell cars, wou...
BMW dealers asking for more of the newly launched 2017 BMW 5 Series cars. They say they don’t have enough of the product. It’s not like they beg for more, but since there are a lot of interested buyers they really need more supply. At the end of March, BMW had just 200 unsold sedans in dealer inventory. They began arriving at dealerships on mid-February. Customers had preordered about about 2,000. Production and deliveries have ramped up since the end of March, a BMW spokesman said. Dealers on average should have a two- to three-week supply now during the launch. For the...
Cadillac marketing chief Uwe Ellinghaus claims that the U.S. sales party isn't over yet. U.S. sales will probably plateau this year just below 2016’s record finish and hover at near-record levels for some time. He says that what others call a “cooling off” is probably the best thing that has ever happened, because levels that were once seen as excessive are now sustainable. U.S. sales edged ahead 0.3 percent in 2016 to end the year at 17.5 million units, a seventh straight year of gains. Through March of this year, however, sales were down 1.6 percent, with Ca...
It’s been a while since the last time we’ve told you about a car recall, right? Well it seems like it was everything fine until now when Subaru decided to recall its 2018 Impreza, because of a software issue. The problem is that the engine might get stalled because of it and it has to be fixed. The recall covers 33, 131 Impreza sedans and hatchbacks in the U.S. built between Sept. 13, 2016, and March 15, 2017, according to documents posted on the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s recall database. The company also issued a stop-sale order for new, uns...
Even though U.S. is not in a recession that’s exactly what dealerships are doing nowadays. As a percentage of a dealership's total gross, profits fell in the new- and used-vehicle departments, but rose in service and parts. The profit gains come after about a third of all U.S. light-vehicle dealerships expanded their service departments by at least one bay in the past 18 months to capture more service revenue. And with new- and used-vehicle price competition remaining intense. Going into a sales plateauing year, customer loyalty is going to be very key for dealers. That lo...
