Spring is here, and it's the perfect time to discover fresh feelings of adventure.If you are willing to explore your need for speed, then RepoKar is the right place for you! RepoKar is a fun, high-octane online Public Auto Auction where you'r...
As many of us might already know the industry of gas and oil was always on the top, a “hot topic” drivers used to always talk about. Gas prices are on the bottom now and we can afford maintaining our gasoline cars, but these kind of situations always have some cover-ups we forget about. If we go back a bit in 2005, we would remember about the marginal well tax credit that was created by government, in order to protect small oil producers when times get tough for them, and looks like those times are already here! This tax credit is worth 25%, 50% or even 100% of the ...
People like pointing out how dirty the electricity grid mix is after charging electric vehicles. Many love talking about plug-in cars that as they say contribute to pollution. This map from Carnegie Mellon University helps on finding out the cleanest cars based on their location. Researchers have compiled information about the gas emissions of different EVs considering their charge, they compared gasoline-powered vehicles to electric ones. In the research were tested Nissan Leaf, Chevrolet Volt, Prius Plug-In Hybrid versus Toyota Prius hybrid and Mazda 3. By driving a Nissan Leaf in ...
March, April and May are the months with the highest selling-volume, this year it seems like dealerships have a good benefit from an early Easter.“It’s reassuring when retail sales grow faster than the overall industry pace as it indicates consumers remain very active and engaged in the new-vehicle market.” says Eric Lyman, TrueCar’s vice president of industry insights, in a statement. TrueCar is expecting increases of 4% for retail sales and 1% for fleet ones. LMC projects retail to rise above 3,9% and 4,7% for fleet sales. April has five weekends this year,...
Volkswagen Group top executives, starting with Chairman Hans Dieter Poetsch, will have their 2015 bonus payments significantly cut as the automaker has a difficult period and counts the multi-billion-euro costs of its emissions-rigging scandal. VW said the supervisory board and management agree that the company needs to send a signal on top management pay. Variable pay will have to be reduced and in this sense the management board, for example, has already accepted cuts of at least 30 percent in bonus payments. VW's supervisory board will decide on the bo...
All the main automotive dealerships agree on the fact that there is a serious shortage of automotive technicians able to work on today's advanced cars and trucks. In this situation analysts and experts say that simply recruiting more technicians won't help. The emerging gap between the lost and the recruited technicians is considerable. Ford and GM estimate a need for a total of 15,000 new technicians for their U.S. dealerships over the next five years. The North American shortfall is estimated by Mark Davis, automotive programs manager at Seminole State C...
