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Another three large cars have been added to the Insurance Industry’s Auto Safety arm list of vehicles that have been given the highest rating for crash worthiness. The three receiving the Top Safety Pick Plus designation from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety are the Lincoln Continental, the Mercedes-Benz E-Class and the Toyota Avalon. Tesla Model S, Ford Taurus and Chevrolet Impala didn't hit the top mark, they scoring "acceptable" on the small overlap front crash test and "poor" on the headlight test. To qualify for the top rating, ...
Toyota Motor Corp. posted its first U.S. sales gain of the year, despite a continuing slide at Lexus, as light-truck deliveries overcame weakness in cars. The automaker's 2.1 percent increase ended a drought that had seen sales fall 4.7 percent through May. Lexus, however, dropped 5.4 percent, for its ninth consecutive monthly decline. Sales at Toyota Division, including a small number of vehicles from the defunct Scion brand, grew 3.2 percent last month to 177,981 vehicles. For the first half of the year, the automaker reported a sales drop of 3.6 percent compared with the same...
Takata Corp. filed for bankruptcy protection in Japan and the U.S., after the world’s biggest automotive recall scandal. The company will be bought by the U.S. supplier Key Safety for $1.59 billion. The sale will not include some operations related to Takata’s business in the ammonium nitrate airbag inflators that were the subject of a global recall linked to defects that resulted in some airbags exploding with too much force and spraying the cabin with metal shards. Malfunctioning Takata airbag inflators have been linked to at least 16 deaths and 180 injuries worldwide ...
Mercedes-Benz USA is lifting a key restriction on Tier 3 local advertising by dealers. Instead of limiting that ad spending to new-car sales, Mercedes will let dealers use the money to promote any area of the business. Ken Schnitzer, chairman of the Mercedes-Benz Dealer Board and owner of four Mercedes-Benz dealerships in Texas, says that they can spend money on new, preowned, service — whatever they think their need is. He thinks that's really a big improvement. The company's U.S. leaders talked to dealers about the change earlier this month at its national dealer mee...
While McLaren is truly happy with its sales and doesn’t plan on switching to the SUV market, Audi is already thinking of adding more sport utility vehicles to its U.S. lineup. The carmaker revealed that it still has niches and segments which might bring to better sales in US. Crosssovers will be a major part of Audi’s U.S. lineup and Audi is pushing to add their own full-size Mercedes-Benz GLS-Class rival since there is demand in this side of the Atlantic for an SUV that large. As for sedans, every automaker, Audi isn’t seeing the same kind of sales numbers a...
