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The growing popularity of crossovers and SUVs on the U.S. market is no more a secret, but lately more and more experts speak about a sweeping growth of the hatchbacks demand. The U.S. market for hatchbacks is expected to grow faster than any of the other nine vehicle body styles according to the results of a specialized research. As specialists expect a 37 percent growth in U.S. hatch sales through to 2020, to 1.1 million vehicles, some of the biggest automakers are supplementing their car lineups with five-doors. Potential high-volume entries such as the Honda Civic and Ch...
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...
As it's been predicted the auto sales started to go down. Looks like for the first time in 6 years U.S. auto industry recorded such big monthly sales drop results. May volume fell 6.1% to 1.5 million vehicles. Even the low gasoline prices failed on stopping the car sales drop. Only some domestic brands as: Fiat Chrysler, Subaru, Kia and Hyundai managed increases this May. Even with this strong drop the annual sales didn't become much worse than in 2015, 17,46 million vehicles versus 17.47 million last year. Ford Motor Co. still has some optimistic thoughts on that even ...
Single women are buying more SUV's, fueling a surge in demand that has 2016 on pace to top last year’s record 17.5 million light-vehicle sales in the U.S. Starting with 2010 to 2015, small SUV sales to women rose 34% compared with a 22% rise for men.. At the same time, premium small SUV's though smaller in raw numbers, saw 177% growth in sales to women. More than 40% among these female vehicle buyers aren't married. As a dealer or a carmaker you need to pay a lot of attention at professional females, who are single but need vehicles. They have their jobs, they make...
It's not a surprise anymore that the buy-sell activity is reaching its top and may plateau this year after so many predictions. Even though it is expected to be a strong sales year, you can't deny it won't be significantly stronger than the last year, or even a bit worse as many think. The reason of such a change, may be first of all the unstable economy, that is pushing retailers to opt for stock buybacks over acquisitions and of course the potential costumers that finally realize they don't need luxury brands, or at least they don't need to pay those enormous bills f...
