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The U.S. automotive industry has been through a rough few years filled with massive recalls, congressional hearings, record fines, and allegations, at times, of a careless, shoddy approach to safety. Still, this does not prevent them to buy cars and trucks at record levels and at record prices. John Humphrey, senior vice president of J.D. Power’s global automotive practice, said that the number of recalls is very big and yet the industry is selling more cars than ever. Legendary consumer safety advocate Ralph Nader said that the cars are much safer, less polluting, modestly f...
While smart cars are a 21st century thing, the convenience has a darker side. Researchers have shown that it takes a tool as cheap as $40 to bypass the “keyless system” in tens of millions of Volkswagen cars, including Audis and SEATs.Four European researchers say hackers can easily eavesdrop on the signal which is sent every time a driver presses their key fob to lock or unlock a car. All the thieves need is a cheap technical device and to be somewhere within 100 meters of a vehicle. Flavio Garcia and his team at the University of Birmingham reverse-engineered an undisclosed compo...
Last year the U.S. auto sales set an all-time record for the first time in 15 years. The slow but steady economic recovery, low interest rates and depressed gas prices managed to make the 2015 economic environment a carmaker's dream. Unfortunately, this dream may morph into a full-fledged nightmare in just a few short years at least for members of the industry establishment like Ford Motor Co. (ticker: F), General Motors Co. (GM), Honda Motor Co. (HMC) and Toyota Motor Corp. (TM) If we take a look at the U.S. vehicle sales in 2016 thus far, we'd see no particular reason to p...
Hyundai Motor Co. and its smaller affiliate, Kia Motors Corp., saw their combined U.S. sales rise by more than 6 percent in July, thanks in large part to strong sales in sport utility vehicles. The two South Korean auto giants sold 134,972 units in the U.S. market last month, up from 127,324 units in the same month last year, exceeding the country’s automobile industry average growth rate of 5.3 percent. Hyundai reported that its sales rose 5.6 percent from last year to 75,003 while Kia reported a total of 59,969 units, up 6.4 percent compared with a year ago. Both automakers ...
There are many signs already that U.S. new vehicle market has slowed down, at the end of July the reports have showed that the industry reached the strongest selling rate. Within July, sales were 1.1% ahead of last year's record pace. The selling rate has grown less than it was expected, that is why many automakers started to fight the stagnation with some powerful incentives. If all of these car brands are protecting their share, doesn't it mean the market is plateauing? The Ford's vice president said that the marketing is more competitive in the last six years. More th...
