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Car makers can expect for some favorable environment for lucrative truck and SUV sales into the next year. As the right conditions come together for a continued oil glut. That heralds lower prices at the pump, les painful driving, and less scrutiny of EPA mileage figures on Monroney stickers. Oil supply and inventories are rising, but the demand falls off sharply, since the overseas interests are conspiring to keep prices down— and in their favor. The International Energy Agency have predicted an oversupplied crude oil market, with “glut” conditions lasting until ...
General Motors has taken a beating in the headlines this year as falling U.S. sales have cost it nearly a full point of market share. U.S. vice president of sales, Kurt McNeil, says GM's deliberate move to cut low-profit sales to rental car companies and focus on more lucrative retail sales to individual customers is behind the drop. But the auto industry's focus on top-line sales numbers has made GM look bad compared with competitors. Kurt McNeil claims he has a strategy that can help GM to increase its sales numbers, despite the fact that GM's market share has fallen ...
The average fuel-economy rating vehicles sold in the United States this August was about 25.3 miles per gallon, that's down 0.1 mpg if we compare it with the July average. The the average fuel-economy rating for all of 2015 cars sold was 25.3 mpg. We can truly say that fuel economy ratings on new automobiles sold out has improved by 5.2 miles per gallon, that's about 26%. Since the window sticker average is 5.2 mpg higher than when the data were first collected, the average is still 0.5 mpg below its all-time high of 25.8 mpg set in August 2014. Consumers started buyin...
Economic indicators point to a strengthening economy, which means more Americans are choosing luxury cars than in recent years. In August 2016, the sales volume of entry-level luxury cars in the US dropped by a significant 19.6% YoY (year-over-year) to ~53,000 units. For the same period, the sales of entry-level luxury SUVs (sports utility vehicles) increased by 11.3% YoY to more than 58,000 units, while the sales of entry-level sports cars dropped by 17.8% YoY to nearly 26,000 units. Top car models in the entry-level luxury and sports vehicle segments included the BMW 3 Series, Mer...
The 4.1% decline in U.S. new-vehicle sales in August provided more evidence of plateauing of consumer demand. The numbers further underscored the waning interest of buyers for sedans, especially in the midsize category. The U.S. automotive market's six-year recovery following the global financial crisis has been carried mostly by trucks, SUVs and crossovers. In August, for example, Toyota's (TM) RAV4 midsize crossover for the first time outsold the Japanese automaker's best-selling Camry sedan, 33,171 to 32,864. For Nissan (NSANY), the automaker's Rogue crossover in...
