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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 ...
General Motors Co. and Toyota Motor Corp. officials will tell a U.S. House panel that need changes to automotive safety rules to allow the deployment of self-driving cars on American roads. Mike Abelson, vice president of global strategy at GM, said that without changes to those regulations, it may be years before the promise of today’s technology can be realized and thousands of preventable deaths that could have been avoided will happen. On Monday, Sen. Gary Peters, D-Mich., and Senator John Thune, the Republican chairman of the Commerce Committee, said in a joint statement...
American inflation expectation rises for the second straight month in January to its highest level since mid-2015. The data revealed indicates that American interest rates will keep it high. Residential land prices in China rose 7.9% over all of 2016. Car sales slowed down in January comparing to December, getting hurt by holidays and reduced tax discounts. All of 2016, they reached a record high of 28 mln vehicles, up +13.7% in the year. The data released by Japan reveals that its economy has grown up 1% in the December quarter. In Europe, an official review shared with us shows th...
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...
It's obvious that the auto industry is not able sell 17 million cars and light trucks in America year after year. At some point buyer demand will become sated. Higher interest rates will force manufacturers to offer less attractive deals. Thus, sales would begin to drop from their recent peak, which will create a set of difficult challenges for car companies that operate in the United States. A forecast for January sales predicts a dip of 3% to 1.13 million, which translates into 31,000 vehicles. Some car companies will start to be part of trends that may erode their earnings. A...
