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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...
After severe flooding that hit the southwestern Germany, production at Audi's factory in Neckarsulm was halted. The concerned plant builds the A4, A5, A6, A7 and A8 models, as well as the R8 sports car and Audi's performance RS models.Parts of the Audi factory were flooded following heavy rain on Sunday night and early Monday morning. The inundation is so strong in the southwestern German state of Baden-Wuerttemberg, where Neckarsulm is located, that four people died in the floods and storms. Audi said production was due to resume on the late shift on Monday. An Aud...
Toyota is heading into the summer with sales on the decline. While nearly all automakers reported sales problems this May, Toyota Motor's U.S. sales tumbled 9.6% last month.Almost all of the automaker's models posted sales declines.The automaker's namesake Toyota brand sold 192,657 vehicles, down 9.5% compared to the same period a year earlier. Sales of the luxury Lexus brand declined 10.1% to 26,682. In such a way analysts projecting declines for most major manufacturers in May, compared to the same month a year ago, were right. But Toyota suffered i...
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 ...
A suburban Phoenix Chevrolet dealership was fined $40,000 because federal regulators found out that it was selling recalled new vehicles without the proper repairs. After a two-year investigation, Sands Chevrolet of Surprise, Ariz., agreed to pay the civil penalty as part of a settlement with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.According to federal law it is forbidden to dealers to sell new vehicles subject to open recalls without fixing them first. The concerned dealership has changed its procedures to ensure that all vehicles are checked for open recal...
