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As automakers are doing their best to get rid off too much inventory, buyers can expect sweeter deals on small and mid-size cars. This July wasn’t expected to be a good month for US car sales but at the same time, the data are not so bad. Overall auto sales fell 7% from a year earlier to 1.42 million vehicles. Buyers will eventually have fewer choices of passenger cars as automakers shift more of their engineering resources into crossovers, SUVs and pickups. Average discounts per vehicle rose 5% to about $3,600, compared with a year earlier. Meanwhile, transaction prices ...
When two automakers with lots of potential make an alliance there is no wonder that their sales get global. That’s exactly what happened after Japanese automaker Nissan Motor Co. and Renault SA of France got together. The automakers claimed the top rank for the first time, by beating perennial top-sellers Volkswagen, Toyota and General Motors. The Nissan-Renault alliance, which has included Mitsubishi Motors Corp. it acquired the Japanese automaker last year, sold 5,268,079 vehicles around the world in January-June. That was more than Volkswagen AG at 5,155,600, and Japan...
At least 17 deaths and 180 injuries worldwide are now tied to the defect that prompted the largest ever auto safety recall and led Takata to file for bankruptcy protection last month. Honda Motor Co. on Monday confirmed an 11th U.S. death involving one of its vehicles tied to a faulty Takata Corp. airbag inflator. The Japanese automaker said the incident occurred in Florida in June 2016 when an individual was working on repairs on a 2001 Honda Accord and the airbag ruptured. Takata inflators can explode with excessive force, unleashing metal shrapnel inside cars and trucks.&nb...
China has asked 3 major automakers to fulfill their obligations and finally recall the cars in China with Takata airbags, these automakers are: General Motors, Daimler's Mercedes-Benz and Volkswagen. The three foreign carmakers have to date only proposed recalling a small number of vehicles for testing and analysis instead of providing recall plans, the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine said on its website late on Thursday. The watchdog said it met the carmakers' representatives and urged them to fulfill their legal obligations and reca...
J.D. Power has released its 2017 annual report card on vehicle quality and again the first spot has been taken by Kia. Only 72 problems per 100 Kia vehicles were reported, and that’s despite the shake-up in the 2017 U.S. Initial Quality Study rankings that included significant shifts with the German and Japanese brands -- most notably, Toyota and Lexus -- falling behind many U.S. and Korean car brands. The vice president of global automotive company J.D. Power said that Kia is without question the best quality the world has ever seen. The industry is picking up steam and really impr...
