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All of the recent calm in global markets owes a lot to the U.S. consumer, with rising retail sales which helped on becoming the world's largest economy in June. Even so, we've got a very weak spot now and speaking about that we mean- slowing car sales, it's unclear now which market segment will pick up the slack. The U.S. consumption revelations show that car industry is at its peak now, which means it's in trouble. As you can see on the charts from the pictures, U.S. retail sales represent 20% of overall spending, after groceries at 13%. Demand ...
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...
As you might already know from one of our previous article, FCA was reporting cheating sales for a while now. We don't know the right time when it all has started, but for sure the FCA dealerships were a part of the plan. Some of them have begun to receive subpoenas to provide documents or any proof that would show the company's reported sales weren't real. There are 2,650 U.S. dealerships which sell Fiat Chrysler's cars and it's still a secret how many of them received these subpoenas. One of these dealerships has talked about receiving subpoenas that ...
There was nothing casual for Nissan choosing Dallas as the place to present the new 2017 Pathfinder crossover this month. Nissan North America Chairman Jose Munoz explains that Texas is very important to them, it is the second-largest market, after Ca. “We have thousands of employees and their families here. It's important that we continue to do well here. We want to make people aware that we are here and will continue to see good growth in Texas."---Said Munez. But Toyota seems as a big rock in Nissan’s growth strategy in Texas, and especially in the Dallas...
It has been announced that the General Motors Company has a certain sales decrease outside the US. The level of sales in South America has dropped significantly. Europe's hopes to reach breakeven this year are threatened by the aftershocks of the U.K.'s Brexit vote. Despite this, the level of domestic sales is not low. North American operations' pretax profit jumped 31 percent in the second quarter to $3.65 billion from the year-earlier period, despite a drop of 5.7 percent in overall North American unit sales. North America-heavy General Motors Financial joined the part...