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Can you guess which company is recalling next? Well, this might sound a bit strange but Ford Motor Co. is recalling nearly 271,000 previous-generation F-150s. It took the company dozens of complaints about front brake failures, nine crashes and a three-month investigation by federal safety regulators to realize there is something wrong with the models. As Ford said the problem involves fluid leaking from the master brake cylinder into the brake booster, it results into reducing braking ability. As the owners complained it was hard for them to stop the car even if they were pres...
There might be a problem this month with new auto sales but not when it comes to California. The registrations for new cars sold first months this year, exceeded 500.000, which is a 3.8% improvement comparing to last year. It's a 22nd consecutive year-over-year increase in quarterly registrations, which of course is great news not just for carmakers and dealers, but for costumers too. We are pretty sure the state will top 2 million new vehicle registrations for the second straight year. Brian Maas, the president of the California New Car Dealers Assn. said Ca...
Recent news about U.S. car recalls because of technical problems with Takata airbags have to be completed with new details from Toyota Motor Corp. that is recalling almost 1.6 million additional vehicles for front passenger side Takata airbag inflators that could rupture.Faulty Takata inflators have been linked to more than 100 injuries and 13 deaths worldwide. Toyota said the new recall includes some but not all Corolla, Matrix, Yaris, 4Runner, Sienna, Scion xB, Lexus ES, GX and IS vehicles built between 2006 and 2011. This report will be folowed by data from other 17 auto...
The days of auto sales increasing are reaching their end this month, at least that's what J.D. Power and LMC Automotive think.This May wasn't this friendly to new car sales, that is why they will fall down to 5.7% from the same month last year. The reason of such a decrease is partly because this year has two fewer selling days. That's how the seasonally adjusted annualized rate will slip to 17.4 million vehicles from 17.71 million in May a year earlier. This April, had the same adjusted annualized results as this May may have. Because of these runnin...
New cars sold in U.S. in May and June will retain about 47,8% of their sticker prices, which is down from the current 52% value for three-year-old vehicles. Customers will have a strong credit availability, five years of high residual value retention rates are predicted thanks to increased demand for new vehicles, and of course the low prices for gas. It's been revealed that for six straight years, U.S. light-vehicles sales have been growing, the record of 17,5 million vehicles sold a year ago is included too. Another 3,3% of sales grew were registered for first four month...
