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GM revealed that it plans on reducing its production at Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly Plant, and at factories in Lansing and Ohio. GM says it had more than 874,000 cars, trucks and crossovers in its inventory at the end of November- the most it has had in its U.S. stock in eight years, when vehicles went unsold during the Great Recession. And with some car models nearing six months of supply, GM will stop assembly lines for three weeks in January at Detroit-Hamtramck, according to the United Auto Workers union. The automaker announced in November it would cut shifts at plants in Lansin...
The car sales in November increased only a bit, which isn't a good sign specialists say. Retail sales rose only 0.1 percent in November, after a downwardly-revised 0.6 percent growth in October. Consumers bumped up their purchases at restaurants and furnishers last month. But they also trimmed spending at auto dealers and department stores, limiting the overall advance in retail sales. More Americans had seemed to enter the holiday season poised to shop. The improving job market has pushed unemployment down to 4.6 percent and prompted signs of accelerating wage growth. Over the ...
The US car buyers are showing signs of fatigue, raising concerns over the broader outlook for consumer spending—a key engine of U.S. Growth. Sales of light vehicles in the U.S. have increased for six straight years, touching a record 17.5 million units in 2015, and are potentially on track for another record this year. But sales now appear to have plateaued, leading to a buildup of inventory and a return to discounting—something auto makers swore off when emerging from the recession. Dealership sales, measured in dollars, fell a seasonally adjusted 0.5% in November from ...
BMW vehicles which have an electric motor and battery are now approximately 1 out of every 16 BMW USA passenger car sales (6.4% of such sales). The sales include BMW i3, BMW i8 and BMW 330e models. The BMW X5 xDrive 40e was not included in this calculation since it falls under BMW’s light trucks category — it accounts for 4.3% of that category’s sales. Overall, that means plug-in cars accounted for 5.55% of all BMW brand sales in the US in November. BMW, Nissan, and GM are often identified as the Big Auto companies most focused on advancing electric cars in th...
Volkswagen Group led automotive spending on Advertising Age’s 2016 list of the top 100 advertisement spenders worldwide. Fifteen automakers and tire maker Bridgestone Corp. constituted the automotive category on the World’s Largest Advertisers list. Seven of those automakers made the top 25, Advertising Age. VW ranked No. 4 on the biggest-spenders list, with its ad spending in 2015 totaling $6.6 billion. General Motors was next for automakers, taking sixth place on the list. It spent $5.1 billion in 2015. Daimler AG ranked No. 7 and spent $5 billion. Ford Motor Co. took...
