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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...
Hyundai and its affiliate Kia sold an impressive number of 146,400 cars in the Chinese market last month, accounting for a combined 9.2 percent of the market. The CEO of Hyundai Motor America, Dave Zuchowski, has plenty of changes and challenges to deal with in order to reach a similar success on the U.S. market.In April the two automakers sold in China a total of 1.6 million cars. They took up over 9 percent of the Chinese market for the first time this year. Their combined market share continued to grow from 6.1 percent in January to 7.7 percent in February...
There might be a problem this month with new auto sales but not when it comes to California. The registrations for new cars sold first months this year, exceeded 500.000, which is a 3.8% improvement comparing to last year. It's a 22nd consecutive year-over-year increase in quarterly registrations, which of course is great news not just for carmakers and dealers, but for costumers too. We are pretty sure the state will top 2 million new vehicle registrations for the second straight year. Brian Maas, the president of the California New Car Dealers Assn. said Ca...
Recent news about U.S. car recalls because of technical problems with Takata airbags have to be completed with new details from Toyota Motor Corp. that is recalling almost 1.6 million additional vehicles for front passenger side Takata airbag inflators that could rupture.Faulty Takata inflators have been linked to more than 100 injuries and 13 deaths worldwide. Toyota said the new recall includes some but not all Corolla, Matrix, Yaris, 4Runner, Sienna, Scion xB, Lexus ES, GX and IS vehicles built between 2006 and 2011. This report will be folowed by data from other 17 auto...
