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After a controversial May for U.S. auto sales, comes June that seems to be more resultative and that is expected to rise the number of new vehicles sold about 5 percent from a year ago. Analysts say that July should also get off to a good start as Independence Day weekend typically sees aggressive sales promotions.This year June has one more selling day than it did in 2015. The forecasts represent the highest volume for June since 2005 and a seasonally adjusted, annualized selling rate of 16.9 million to 17.2 million. We will have real sales results for June on Friday when autom...
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 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...
Memorial Day isn't just a holiday people like celebrating with family and friends by going on road trips or barbeques, it's an additional day for getting a new car. There are three major holidays when customers usually go to dealerships and make some car shopping, Memorial Day is one of them, the list also includes Labor Day and July 4th. If this Memorial Day goes well, as dealers and car makers plan than this May could be one of the strongest selling months of the year. If you plan on going to a dealership, or buy a car online you'd better be armed with research on what ...
The days of auto sales increasing are reaching their end this month, at least that's what J.D. Power and LMC Automotive think.This May wasn't this friendly to new car sales, that is why they will fall down to 5.7% from the same month last year. The reason of such a decrease is partly because this year has two fewer selling days. That's how the seasonally adjusted annualized rate will slip to 17.4 million vehicles from 17.71 million in May a year earlier. This April, had the same adjusted annualized results as this May may have. Because of these runnin...