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Despite the ongoing emissions scandal and slumping U.S. sales, Volkswagen Group overtakes Toyota as the largest automaker in 2016's first half. Its sales volume raised 1,5% from the year-earlier period to 5,11 million vehicles. Of course, the scandal involving Volkswagen's diesel models has had a significant impact on sales, but the automaker's Audi luxury brand and mass-media market Skoda brand did well. This was due to the fact that consumers in Europe were less aware of emissions problems with those two brands. China, being the world's largest automobile market, ...
Ford Motor Co. said Thursday its second-quarter earnings fell 9 percent to $ 1.97 billion and warned of a “very weak third quarter,” as US demand softens and the automaker launched its redesigned versions of heavy trucks.Ford Motor Chief Financial Officer Bob Shanks said "all options are on the table" for cost cuts in Europe because of Britain's vote to leave the EU but said the company is not ready to announce any plant shutdowns in the UK. Shanks said the Brexit vote cost the company $60 million in the second quarter due to the falling value of the British pound. Fo...
We guess that there is no person who has not heard about the VW diesel-emissions scandal. The company, which owns 70 percent of the U.S. passenger-car diesel market, is in major trouble for cheating on diesel-emissions tests. However, this scandal did not prevent the company to take the leading position in its sales for the first half of the year. The analyzed figures show that Volkswagen Group sold over 5 million cars and light trucks worldwide and more than any other automaker in the first half of 2016. According to the Center for Automotive Management, the carmaker sold up 0.8 p...
The US sales of the 2017 BMW diesel vehicles will be delayed. This is due to the fact that US regulators has not certified the models. Bimmer, which sells diesel-powered 3-Series, 5-Series, X3, and X5 vehicles in the US has not announced the date when such domestic sales would start. The BMW spokeswoman Rebecca Kiehne said that the product certification has been delayed due to testing logistics. She also stressed that the production of the BMW diesel models will start after finalization of the cars' homologation. The problem is that US regulators decided to take a more del...
It has been officially announced that Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV plans to invest a huge amount of money at two Midwest assembly plants for future production of Jeep SUVs. This is actually more than $1 billion. They also aim to create 1000 new jobs. The automaker is going to invest about $700 million and add 700 work places at the Toledo Assembly Complex North plant for production of the next-generation Jeep Wrangler. The company will also invest $350 million and add about 300 new workers at its Belvidere Assembly in Illinois to produce the Jeep Cherokee. Production of t...
