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US car sales declined during January, we think the reason is pretty obvious: high incentive in December, low sales in January. Even so, the analysts are pretty sure that vehicles sales last month showed good results, and it won’t be the same for February. Customer confidence, better deals on vehicles and low gasoline prices will raise the demand for vehicles once summer sets. The seasonally adjusted annualized sales rate stood at 17.6 million vehicles for the month as compared with 17.9 million vehicles from the last year. Here's a detailed look at the auto sales of the automake...
General Motors Co. and Toyota Motor Corp. officials will tell a U.S. House panel that need changes to automotive safety rules to allow the deployment of self-driving cars on American roads. Mike Abelson, vice president of global strategy at GM, said that without changes to those regulations, it may be years before the promise of today’s technology can be realized and thousands of preventable deaths that could have been avoided will happen. On Monday, Sen. Gary Peters, D-Mich., and Senator John Thune, the Republican chairman of the Commerce Committee, said in a joint statement...
After limited availability of Lexus models which led to a 26 percent fall in sales last month, we have realized that the carmaker is really short on supplies. It keeps on getting better this month, at least that’s what the general manager of Toyota’s luxury brand is trying to convince us about. Even so we’ve heard that the supplies won’t normalize until March. Bracken said Lexus sold so many units in December that it went into the new year strapped for utility vehicles such as its top-selling RX, leading to a softer January than expected. Lexus sold 15,572 ve...
Detroit dreams of a day when American cars on Japanese roads would be more visible. Considering Japanese cars take a wide portion of US car market, why is it so hard for American car brands to do the same on Japanese market? American auto executives and trade negotiators and has become a renewed source of political friction under President Trump. Trump accuses Japan of shutting American producers out, by throwing up regulatory barriers and rigging the currency market in favor of Japanese brands. Such talk is alarming in Japan, where the auto industry is a pillar of the economy. When...
Volvo was doing really good in 2016 and its revealed double-digit earning improvements proves that. The automaker forecasts a fourth consecutive year of record sales for 2017, in this goal it will be helped by the arrival of new models such as second-generation XC60 and the all-new XC40. Operating profit rose 66 percent to 11.0 billion Swedish crowns ($1.24 billion) and revenue increased 10 percent to 180.7 billion crowns. That helped improve the automaker's profit margin to 6.1 percent compared with a 4 percent margin in 2015. Since being bought by China's Zhejiang Geely Ho...