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American inflation expectation rises for the second straight month in January to its highest level since mid-2015. The data revealed indicates that American interest rates will keep it high. Residential land prices in China rose 7.9% over all of 2016. Car sales slowed down in January comparing to December, getting hurt by holidays and reduced tax discounts. All of 2016, they reached a record high of 28 mln vehicles, up +13.7% in the year. The data released by Japan reveals that its economy has grown up 1% in the December quarter. In Europe, an official review shared with us shows th...
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...
Fiat Chrysler vehicles were allowed to skip key tests for illegal engine software during Italy's main emissions-cheating investigation in the wake of the Volkswagen Group scandal. The report, presented to a European parliamentary committee in October but never officially published, will be seized upon by environmental groups pressing lawmakers to vote on Thursday for tougher EU oversight of vehicle testing by national authorities. The ministry findings, which have been circulated by some Italian opposition politicians and examined by Reuters, include complete sets of data for e...
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...
Renault-Nissan Alliance came just short of matching General Motors and joining the ranks of the three biggest automakers by global sales, after CEO Carlos Ghosn rescued a Japanese peer last year. Nissan Motor Co., Renault SA and Mitsubishi Motors Corp. combined delivered 9.96 million vehicles last year. The three automakers chaired by Ghosn finished fewer than 4,000 cars and trucks short of GM’s deliveries in 2016 and within about 350,000 units of new worldwide leader Volkswagen AG. Ghosn emphasized the scale Renault and Nissan would add by coming to the aid of Japanese peer Mitsubishi M...
