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Although demand for SUVs and pickups continues to flourish, total U.S. new-vehicle (retail and fleet) sales in September are anticipated to dip 0.8% to less than 1.43 million units vs. 1.44 million unit sales in the same month of 2015. Despite a record level of incentive spending, Labor Day weekend sales, which are traditionally robust, were down 1% from last year, based on sales data collected during the first two weeks of September. The month’s retail deliveries are set to reach 1.185 million units, off 1.4% from last September’s 1.2 million. Fleet sales are expected ...
Considering the growth in auto industry has slowed down in 2016, and U.S. sales for General Motors and Ford were down 5.2% and 8.4% in August, comparing to the same month last year, the car companies aren’t accepting the downturn passively: to juice sales in September, incentive spending is at the highest levels ever. Automakers have been trying to boost sales by increasing incentives significantly. The average incentive in September is at a record high of $3,923 per unit. The beats the previous peak of $3,753 in December 2008- back when the Great Recession was kicking into fu...
Despite a record high for consumer discounts, September U.S. auto sales are forecast to drop nearly 1 percent from a year ago. It is expected that the U.S. new vehicle sales will be 1.43 million, down 0.8 percent from a year earlier. The seasonally adjusted annualized rate for September will be 17.7 million vehicles, down from 18 million on the same basis a year earlier. Retail sales to consumers, which do not include multiple fleet sales to rental agencies, businesses and government, were seen declining 1.4 percent in September. It would be the fifth month in the past seven to show a retail s...
Despite a record high for consumer discounts, specialists forecast a 1% drop of U.S. auto sales. September U.S. new vehicle sales will be 1.43 million, down 0.8% from a year earlier. The seasonally adjusted annualized rate for September will be 17.7 million vehicles, down from 18 million on the same basis a year earlier. Even retails sales to consumers, which don't include multiple fleet sales to rental agencies, businesses and government, were seen declining 1.4% in September. It would be the fifth month in the past seven to show a retail sales decline. Wall Street analysts expect a ...
The International Council of Transportation has published recently a very interesting analysis of the California electric market. It provided a great overview of the effects of different policies and promotional activities in effect there through 2015, as well as lessons for other locations.This analysis was based around city-level data on electric vehicles for 30 different cities, including adoption rates, public charging infrastructure availability, model availability, promotional efforts, incentives, etc. Electric vehicle adoption rates in many Californian cities are much higher than elsewh...
