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We have a new forecast for this month’s car sales and it includes a 3.3% drop to only 1.3 million units. Await for a decrease of 21% for the mid-size cars. Even with all the drops and decreases we can still say that the sales pace for the industry is healthy, and what’s more important it looks sustainable, as we head into high volume selling months ahead. Retail growth for manufacturers will be tough to achieve in February, as consumer demand remains relatively flat despite increased incentives. Regardless of the expected dip in overall volume, at a SAAR of more than 17 ...
Detroit dreams of a day when American cars on Japanese roads would be more visible. Considering Japanese cars take a wide portion of US car market, why is it so hard for American car brands to do the same on Japanese market? American auto executives and trade negotiators and has become a renewed source of political friction under President Trump. Trump accuses Japan of shutting American producers out, by throwing up regulatory barriers and rigging the currency market in favor of Japanese brands. Such talk is alarming in Japan, where the auto industry is a pillar of the economy. When...
Renault-Nissan Alliance came just short of matching General Motors and joining the ranks of the three biggest automakers by global sales, after CEO Carlos Ghosn rescued a Japanese peer last year. Nissan Motor Co., Renault SA and Mitsubishi Motors Corp. combined delivered 9.96 million vehicles last year. The three automakers chaired by Ghosn finished fewer than 4,000 cars and trucks short of GM’s deliveries in 2016 and within about 350,000 units of new worldwide leader Volkswagen AG. Ghosn emphasized the scale Renault and Nissan would add by coming to the aid of Japanese peer Mitsubishi M...
Criminal proceedings against Volkswagen Group’s diesel-emission scandal has been started in Luxembourg. Regulators had been cheated by car manufacturers. European Union country's infrastructure minister said it was lodging a complaint with prosecutors without naming any of the parties under suspicion. He said that due to a large probability that a defeat device was used, they decided to launch a lawsuit. In documents handed out to reporters at a news conference, Luxembourg's infrastructure ministry described itself as a victim of criminal action that led it to certify ...
Let’s expect flat U.S. auto sales for the month of January, cause there are no hopes or reasons for them to be different. A very high level of incentives is sustaining U.S. automobile sales on a high plateau. This January the average spending per unit was $3,614, which means it’s up $232 from January 2016, not a bad result though considering the expectations we had. High prices match the high level of incentives. The average new-vehicle retail transaction price in January was $31,473, a record for the month. That’s the total price, net of incentives. It would be a ...
