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The number of U.S. car sales is expected to increase in July and the main reason is the strength of the nation's economy. Car sales experts forecast that 1,519,576 new cars and trucks will be sold in July, which would be up 0.8% from the same month in 2015.The forecast would put July as the best for that month since 1.8 million sales were registered in July 2005. July’s figures would also put full-year sales at 17.8 million. The car sales data will be released by the automakers next week. Car sales are considered to be a reliable indicator of strength of the U.S. economy. Customers a...
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 ...
Amnon Shashua the Co-founder and CTO of Mobileye, announced that they would end their relationship with Tesla Motors at the end of the current EyeQ3's lifecycle.Mobileye will continue to provide technical support of its EyeQ3 processor for the California-based electric-vehicle maker, but won't develop more Autopilot-related products.Instead, Mobileye will direct more of its resources towards its partnership with BMW and Intel on further developing autonomous-driving features.Shashua didn't quite spell out the reasons for ending the relationship, but the strong hint was that Mobiley...
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 ...
